Organizational Format

Using Organizational Format to Help When Writing Speech.

1. Organizational Formats Made By: Nicola Petrie

2. What is Organizational Format? Organizational Format is how to make your main points flow logically. This section is going to provide you with a number of organization patterns to help you create a logically organized speech. The first organization pattern we’ll discuss is categorical/topical .

3. categorical/topical speech pattern The goal of a  categorical/topical speech pattern  is to create categories (or chunks) of information that go together to help support your original specific purpose. Let’s look at an example.

4. categorical/topical speech pattern Specific Purpose To persuade a group of high school juniors to apply to attend Generic University Main Points Life in the dorms II. Life in the classroom III. Life on campus

5. Example of Problem/solution Format Specific Purpose To persuade a civic group to support a citywide curfew for individuals under the age of eighteen Main Points Demonstrate that vandalism and violence among youth is having a negative effect on our community . II. Show how vandalism and violence among youth go up after 10:00 p.m. in our community . III. Explain how instituting a mandatory curfew at 10:00 p.m. would reduce vandalism and violence within our community.

6. Qu i z T i m e Imagine that you are giving an informative speech about your favourite book. 2. Which organizational pattern do you think would be most useful? Why? 3. Would your answer be different if your speech goal were persuasive? Why or why not?

7. 1. Working on your own or with a partner, develop three main points for a speech designed to persuade students to attend your school. 2. Work through the preceding organizational patterns and see which ones would be possible choices for your speech. 3.Which organizational pattern seems to be the best choice? Why?

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