ch. 9 Organizing the Speech Flashcards
what is organization?
the selection of ideas and materials and their arrangement into a discernible and effective pattern
why is organization important?
- recall
- active listening
- personal satisfaction
what are main ideas?
claims that address the issues in the thesis statement; the primary divisions of speech
what is the effective way to identify main ideas?
from your thesis or specific purpose
what is the criteria for selecting main ideas?
- is this idea really essential to the speech?
- can a more general statement combine several ideas?
what are the characteristics of main ideas?
- simplicity
- discreteness
- parallel structure
- balance
- coherence
- completeness
what is parallel structure?
structure in which phrases are of similar syntax and length
what is coherence?
clear relationships among ideas and topics so that the speech appears to hang together as a natural whole
what are logically dependent ideas?
cannot stand on its own but requires that another claim or statement be true
what are logically independent ideas?
does not require the truth of any other claim or statement as a condition for its own truth
what is the primacy effect?
a tendency for what is presented first to be best remembered
what is the recency effect ?
a tendency for what is presented last to be remembered
what are the patterns for arranging main ideas?
- chronological
- spatial
- categorical (Topical)
- cause-effect
- problem-solution
- comparison and contrast
- residues
