Explain why it is important to choose an organizational pattern for speech materials. How can you determine which pattern is most appropriate to use?

What will be an ideal response?


The ideal answer should include:
- It is important to organize the speech so that the audience will understand and remember what the speaker says.
- There are a variety of organizational patterns to choose from, and different organizational patterns will work best for different speeches.
- When choosing the pattern to use, consider which one will make it the easiest for the audience to understand the information.
- Certain topics lend themselves to using a particular pattern. For example, speeches about historical events lend themselves to the temporal pattern, and speeches about finding a way to fix a problem lend themselves to the problem-solution pattern.

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