Consider Carly’s speech about women’s magazines, described at the beginning of the chapter. If you were to reorganize her speech, how would you do it?

Working in groups, select three organizational patterns and choose a topic area. For each pattern you have chosen, write the title (in one sentence) of three to five main points on your topic that fit that pattern.

From Amanda List’s informative speech on gender and sports chat rooms, can you identify what her main points are? Does she use transitions, signposts, or other organizational devices to clarify the structure of her speech? How could she use the advice presented in this chapter to improve her organization?

Consider the newscaster illustration on page 274. With that image in mind, watch a broadcast of a nightly newscast, and jot down the different types of transitions, internal previews, and internal summaries that are used by the news anchor. What purpose do they serve? Would you use the same tools in a speech? Why or why not?