{"id":1570,"date":"2020-10-04T16:32:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T16:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1570"},"modified":"2022-07-11T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T21:53:00","slug":"why-it-matters-organizing-and-outlining-your-speech","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/chapter\/why-it-matters-organizing-and-outlining-your-speech\/","title":{"raw":"Why It Matters: Organizing and Outlining Your Speech","rendered":"Why It Matters: Organizing and Outlining Your Speech"},"content":{"raw":"[caption id=\"attachment_3466\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"214\"]<img class=\"wp-image-3466 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5348\/2020\/10\/21050916\/cake-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"A cake photo sliced up and rearranged.\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/> This photo of a cake has all the right information\u2014it's just in the wrong order.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nImagine a situation where you gathered all possible research for your speech topic and then didn\u2019t bother to select which specific research to use or where to use it in your speech. What if you just recited facts in random order to your spectators? The audience would be pretty confused. This section surveys the multiple types of organizational patterns that can be used for all speech types and offers criteria to decide which ones might be most effective for the goals of your speech.\r\n\r\nBeing an organized speaker is one of the key components to keeping an audience engaged and listening. When an audience feels lost, they tune out and become distracted. Using a strategic approach to guiding an audience through a speech will help your listeners retain the information long after the speech ends.","rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3466\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3466\" class=\"wp-image-3466 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5348\/2020\/10\/21050916\/cake-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"A cake photo sliced up and rearranged.\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-3466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo of a cake has all the right information\u2014it&#8217;s just in the wrong order.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Imagine a situation where you gathered all possible research for your speech topic and then didn\u2019t bother to select which specific research to use or where to use it in your speech. What if you just recited facts in random order to your spectators? The audience would be pretty confused. This section surveys the multiple types of organizational patterns that can be used for all speech types and offers criteria to decide which ones might be most effective for the goals of your speech.<\/p>\n<p>Being an organized speaker is one of the key components to keeping an audience engaged and listening. When an audience feels lost, they tune out and become distracted. Using a strategic approach to guiding an audience through a speech will help your listeners retain the information long after the speech ends.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-1570\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Cake. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Deva Williamson (Modified by Lumen Learning). <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/TiSLq6Gbftg\">https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/TiSLq6Gbftg<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/cc0\">CC0: No Rights Reserved<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">Lumen Learning authored content<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Why It Matters: Organizing and Outlining Your Speech. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Misti Wills with Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":161083,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"lumen\",\"description\":\"Why It Matters: Organizing and Outlining Your Speech\",\"author\":\"Misti Wills with Lumen Learning\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Cake\",\"author\":\"Deva Williamson (Modified by Lumen Learning)\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/TiSLq6Gbftg\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc0\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"d2bd33b9-3a77-4ddb-9851-628055ced2a5","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1570","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":1564,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161083"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4696,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1570\/revisions\/4696"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/1564"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1570\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}