University of Nevada, Las Vegas

COM 101

Chapter 9

1)Which of the following effects will organization have on your audience?

2. What is true of the relationship between a speech’s organization and its ability to persuade?
3. Which of the following is an important characteristic of main points?
4. Which of the following sentences is an example of the best way to state a main point?
5. You have seven main points, including the fact that your charity has low administrative costs, economies of scale, and simple distribution mechanisms. What should you do with these ideas?
6. If your main points omit anything not essential to the thesis, what characteristic do they exhibit?
7. If you begin with the past and end with the future, what organizational pattern have you used?
8. Which of the following is true of the placement of your strongest idea?
9. If you gave a speech about the historical precedents for, and consequences of, the Iraq war, what should you base your choice of organizational pattern on?
10. What is true of combining organizational patterns?
11. Which organizational pattern works well in mainstream American culture?
12. What is especially true of statistical evidence?
13. What is generally better, a short anecdote or a long narrative?
14. When deciding how much supporting material to include, what do you need to balance?
15. If you are speaking to a college class about raising the drinking age, how much evidence do you need?