COMM107 Chapter 13 Terms Introduction to a speech purpose is to gain the listeners attention and orient them to the material that will be presented Orienting material gives an audience the background necessary to understand the basic material of the speech Statement of the speech s central idea intended to keep the speaker on course for developing a purposeful and well organized speech Body of a speech develops through major points as well as any sub points needed to develop the speaker s central idea Method of issue arrangement for the body of a speech in the Euro American culture traditionally takes one of 6 forms spatial arrangement time arrangement topical arrangement causal arrangement comparison contrast arrangement or problem solution arrangement Methods are selected acts as a guide for sequencing information for listener clarity Spatial method of issue arrangement Set a point of reference at a specific location and followed a geographic pattern Time method of issue arrangement orders information from a beginning point to an ending one with all the steps developed in numerical or time sequence Topical method of issue arrangement a speaker explains an idea in terms of it s component parts Causal method of issue arrangement shows how two or more events are connected in such a way that if one occurs the other will necessarily follow Comparison method of issue arrangement you would tell how the two types of certain things are alike Contrast method of issue arrangement developing the ideas by giving specific examples of differences between the two types of certain things Comparison contrast method of issue arrangement shows both the similarities and differences Problem solution method of issue arrangement used when a speaker attempts to identify what is wrong and to determine how to cure it or make a recommendation for it s cure Conclusion of a speech can be used to summarize and or motivate listeners to take a prescribed action Partitioning organizational speech structure is a deductive format in which as the speech proceeds the speech is partitioned into a number of points Partitioning step it divides partitions the topic Unfolding organizational speech structure An inductive style in which the speaker lays out supporting evidence and then draws a conclusion leading the listeners to be drawn into the argument Case method of organizational speech structure the speaker discusses the central idea without breaking it into sub points
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