PSYC 3330 Chapter 7: Outlining and Organizing Speeches

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3330
• Professor: jaspreetrai

Document Summary

Quality of speech o(cid:396)ganization di(cid:396)ectly influences the audience"s unde(cid:396)standing of key points. Mastering organization is one of the significant skills in competence as a speaker. First thing is to understand how to outline your thoughts and the underlying logic that guides outlining: standard formatting, division, coherence, completeness, and balance. Standard formatting: using correct symbols: roman numerals for main points, capital letters for primary sub-points, another primary sub-point, standard numbers for secondary sub-points, another secondary sub-point, lowercase letters for tertiary sub-points, another tertiary sub-point. Lack of indentation merges points in a way that can easily cause confusion. A purpose statement divides into a minimum of two main points, and a main point divides into a minimum of two sub-points. If you cannot divide a point into two, your point probably does not need division or the point is not substantial enough. You cannot generalize from a single example so do not make it into a lonely sub-point.