From the course: Writing Speeches
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Organizational patterns: Geographical, compare/contrast, and cause/effect
From the course: Writing Speeches
Organizational patterns: Geographical, compare/contrast, and cause/effect
- If the purpose of your speech is to persuade, to change your audience's view or cause your audience to take action, then consider organizing your speech by a Causal order, a Problem-solution arrangement, or a Compare-contrast sequence. The Causal, sometimes called the cause-effect arrangement, is used when you want to analyze how or why something caused something else, the effect of one thing on another. This arrangement helps examine events and analyze problems. The first main point will Explain a Problem, and additional key points will discuss what effects resulted from the original circumstance and then possible projected effects. Let's continue with our two topics of dogs and rock climbing. Maybe you decided your speech would be about why dogs are abandoned, or related to that, why so many dogs have to be euthanized in animal shelters. Those situations are the effects or results of what? You could analyze the causes as not having dogs spayed or neutered or of not taking dog…
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