Chp 14: Organizing Your Presentation

Internal summary

________ - a statement that reviews or sums up what you just finished telling the audience.

Signpost

________- a word that catches the audiences attention and indicates where you are in the speech.

Coordination

________- the principle of outlining that states all information on the same level has the same level of significance.

Division

________- the principle of outlining that states if a main point is divided into subpoints, it must be divided into two or more subpoints.

Subordination

________- the principle of hierarchy of ideas in which the most general ideas appear first followed by more specific ideas.

Key word speaking online

________ - the outline you will put on a notecard and use during your speech; it should include only key words to remind you of your main points and subpoints, as well as source citations, statistics, and direct quotations you want to make sure you say in a particular way.

Internal preview

________- a statement that previews what is coming up next and can even be an overview of the elements of the next main point.

Transition

connecting statement that lets your audience know you are moving between parts of your speech

Preview of main points

tells your audience how you will organize the information for that lesson or argument

thesis statement

a one-sentence summary of your speech that is written the way you will say it out loud to your audience during your speech

specific purpose statement

a narrower version of the general purpose statement that identifies what you will talk about, what you will say about it, and what you hope the audience will take away from the speech

Full-sentence preparation online

an outline that includes everything you plan to say in your speech and is written somewhat like a manuscript in an outline format