College Public Speaking Informational Speech notes

Organizing main ideas

Organizing main ideas

• Topically

• Chronologically

• Spatially

• Causal

Topically

• Ideas naturally divide

• Cover types of topics

• Ideas broken down by

  • Recency (memorable last)

  • Primacy- first convincing

  • Complexity- simple to complex points

Chronologically

• Ideas arranged based on sequence of steps

• Ideas need to be arranged in specific order

• History speeches

• How to speeches (process)

Spatially

• When each idea has a specific location or direction

• Can focus on different parts of a building organization machine

• Can examine different regions of a city nation continent

Cause and effect

• Ideas show relationship between certain factors and certain results

• From effect to cause

• From cause to effect

Problem solution

• A relationship between something that is wrong and how it can be connected

• From problem to solution or solution to problem