ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the major parts of your speech and how to prepare a speech outline. The body is the main part of your speech. The ideas in that body often form patterns that provide a framework for arranging your speech more effectively; these patterns include causal order, problem/solution, spatial order, time order, and topic order. The chapter outlines the body to help with your speech's development. The outlining principles discussed are: An outline consists of coordinate and subordinate points, each idea in an outline is discrete, and the number of major ideas should be limited. Transitions provide a link between the main parts of your speech. By previewing and summarizing ideas, they provide an additional opportunity for the audience to follow the speech. Signposts allow your audience to follow along with you as you proceed through the presentation.
