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Learn how to create a well-organized and balanced speech by understanding the main points, supporting points, and transitions. Discover how to make strong claims and provide compelling evidence to support your thesis. Enhance your speech delivery with effective transitions.
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Chapter Eleven Main Points, Supporting Points, and Transitions
Chapter Eleven Table of Contents • Main Points: Making the Claim • Supporting Points: Supplying the Evidence • Principles of Organizing Main and Supporting Points • Transitions: Giving Direction to the Speech
Main Points, Supporting Points, and Transitions Speech structure: • Introduction establishes the purpose and relevance • Body presents main points • Conclusion ties the purpose and main points together.
Main Points: Making the Claim • Main Points: used to express the key ideas and major themes • Also used to make claims in support of the thesis
Main Points: Making the Claim • Using the Purpose and Thesis Statements as Guideposts • Number of Main Points • Form of Main Points
Main Points: Making the Claim:Using the Purpose and Thesis Statements as Guideposts The specific purpose and thesis statements can be guideposts to help generate the main points of your speech.
Main Points: Making the Claim:Number of Main Points Use two to seven main points, depending on • Topic • Amount of material • Length of the speech
Main Points: Making the Claim:Form of Main Points A main point should only introduce one idea.
Parallel Form: stating main points in similar grammatical form and style Main Points: Making the Claim:Form of Main Points
Supporting Points: Supplying the Evidence • Supporting Points: material or evidence gathered to justify the main points • Main points are enumerated with upper-case Roman numerals • Supporting points with capital letters
Principles of Organizing Main and Supporting Points • A well-organized speech is characterized by unity, coherence, and balance.
Principles of Organizing Main and Supporting Points:Unity • Unity: when a speech contains only points related to the purpose and thesis statement.
Principles of Organizing Main and Supporting Points:Coherence • Coherence: clarity and logical consistency throughout • Subordination and coordination: logical placement of ideas relative to their importance to one another
Principles of Organizing Main and Supporting Points:Balance • Balance: an appropriate amount of weight given to each part of the speech relative to the other parts
Transitions: words, phrases, or sentences that tie the speech ideas together rhetorical question restatement of the previous point forecast of the next point Transitions: Giving Direction to the Speech
Internal preview: a transition that tells the audience what to expect next. Internal summary: draws together important ideas before proceeding to the next point. Transitions: Giving Direction to the Speech