1. Organizing Your Speech

2. The Body It’s the heart, brain, and center of your speech
1st step: Outlining
Just like a map on a road trip, it’s a speaker’s map to what they will say
Speeches are hard to follow when they’re just “thrown together” bc of poor organization
THINK-PAIR-SHARE… what are some ways you can tell a speech is unprepared?

3. Outline- purpose statement
1.Purpose statement is the first step. What is the purpose of your speech?
(Shouldn’t be stated in your speech, just written in the outline as a reminder)
Ex: Purpose statement: The purpose of the speech is to inform the audience on the process of how to make and decorate a cake.

4. Outline- Main Headings
2. Main headings- The major divisions of your speech
Should be next to Roman Numerals (I., II., III.)
There should only be 3 parts to your speech bodies
Ex: Ingredients, How to bake a cake, How to decorate it

5. Outline Ex.
Purpose statement: The purpose of the speech is to inform the audience on the process of how to make and decorate a cake.
I. Ingredients
II. How to Bake
III. How to Decorate

6. Outline- Support Material
Supporting Materials- provides intensification and reinforcement for main headings
Personal stories, quotes, observations
Must be narrower than your main headings
Identified by capital letters (A., B., C., etc)
Not great detail, key words or phrases
Outlines aren’t substitutions for memory

7. Outline Ex.
Purpose statement: The purpose of the speech is to inform the audience on the process of how to make and decorate a cake.
I. Ingredients
Cold ingredients
Dry Ingredients
II. How to bake
A. Mixing
B. Oven temp and timing
III. How to Decorate
A. Piping bags
B. Icing ideas

8. Outline Details Narrows even further
Breaks down supporting materials to pinpoint accuracy
Gives life to your speech

9. Outline Ex.
Purpose statement: The purpose of the speech is to inform the audience on the process of how to make and decorate a cake.
I. Ingredients
A.Cold ingredients
1. Eggs- farm fresh
2. butter
B. Dry Ingredients
1. Sugar vs Splenda
2. Flour
II. How to bake
A. Mixing
1. Put on high
2. Mix for 3 mins. Until thick consistency
B. Oven temp and timing
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Bake for 20 mins
III. How to Decorate
A. Piping bags
1. Paper bags
2. Plastic Icing Gun
B. Icing ideas
1. Flowers
2. Letters

10. Outline Guidelines Each part of the outline should have two items
You can have more than 2, but must have 2
Outline purpose + effective organization= speaker is in charge

11. Organizational Patterns
1. Chronological Pattern- puts things in a time sequence or in order they happened. Good for speeches that need to show beginning to end pictures.
Ex. The Role of Racism in Society
I. Racism in the 60s
II. Racism in the 70s
III. Racism in modern day Society

12. Organizational Patterns
2. Climatic Pattern- main headings are organized in order of importance. Builds significance.
Types of Crime in America
I. Shoplifting
II. White-Collar Crime
III. Violent Crime

13. Organizational Patterns
Spatial Pattern- dividing up your topic on the basis of space relationships. Audience can see how the body of your speech fits together by the spatial layout picture that you create.
Introducing the Modern School
I. Library is the central hub
II. Classrooms radiate from Library
III. Offices are extensions.

14. Organizational Patterns
4. Cause-Effect Patterns- because of this, that happened. The cause directly effects the cause.
Anorexia
I. Causes
II. Effects
III. Solutions

15. Organizational Patterns
Problem-Solution Pattern- Presents a problem and then provides ideas about how it can be solved.
Recycling
I. Problems
II. Effects of those Problems
III. Solutions

16. Solutions
Policy Solutions- asks audience to write the someone in politics for a change
Attitudinal Solutions- asks audience to deal with more attitudes, opinions, moods.
Awareness Solutions- Reminds audience to be conscious of what they have heard and possible implement what has been talked about in their own lives.