COM 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Gender-Neutral Language
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Listeners find a speaker more credible if they are more organized. Organization allows your audience to follow a speech more easily and understand the purpose more clearly. A listener does not have your notes, therefore being organized allows a listener to follow and co(cid:373)prehe(cid:374)d the speaker"s (cid:373)essage. Pick a message of organizing your speech that is consistent with your purpose. Your topic and audience should influence your choice in organizational patterns. Chronological order: your main points will follow a time sequence. Inform about a series of events as they occur: can also be from present to past or past to present. Spatial order: arrange ideas according to place or position. Topical order: breaks your overall topic into sub-topics. Casual order: highlight the cause-effect relationships that exist among the main points. Transitions: words/phrases that demonstrate key relationships among ideas and show that a speaker is leaving one point and moving onto the next.
