Organizing Your Speech Points

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You’ve got your purpose, your research, and your thesis. But before you begin writing, it’s best to organize your ideas—to set out the points you want to make, the examples you plan to use to support them, and the basic order in which you want to present them. And you will want to do all of this before you write your introduction or conclusion. In this section, we’ll focus on identifying your main points and developing your supporting points, in addition to considering useful ways to arrange those points and connect them in your speech.