COM 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: 1980 Summer Olympics Boycott

• School: Pace University
• Department: Communications
• Course: COM 200
• Professor: Alan Ross

Document Summary

Structuring your speech (chapter 9 of osborn, osborn, & osborn) Structuring body of speech: body of speech should highlight main pts & develop them effectively. As you structure your body, make sure to accomplish these three major tasks: selecting your main points, arranging the points appropriately, deciding on supporting materials. Main points: most important ideas of message; the pt of focus that will advance specific purpose. Research overview: listing main sources of info & a summary of major ideas from each. After identifying main themes from research, you need to determine how they relate to specific purpose & to your listeners. Arranging your main points: must come up w/ a way of ordering them that is: As noted earlier, ppl mentally organize info into patterns that are easy to remember. These patterns set up expectations that are used to process further experiences. Function like mental templates through which we see & experience the world.