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In using the ______ pattern, the main points of a speech gradually build up to the speaker's thesis, is not revealed until the speech is nearly over.

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Essays generally contain short sentences, whereas speeches often contain complex sentences.

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The deferred-thesis pattern is a system of configural organization.

Unless audience members are able to ______ and ______ your speech, they might as well not listen to it.

The three main systems of configural organization are deferred-thesis, web, and extemporaneous.

______ format seeks to identify significant problems that need resolution and then a solution to help alleviate said problem.

What are the five traditional or linear approaches to ordering material?

When you use ______ organization for your speech, you follow various aspects of your topic from top to bottom, left to right, front to back, or north to south.

Explain how a problem-solution format could have either two or three main points.

What game plan should a speaker have when organizing their speech?

In a cause-and-effect speech, you can't discuss the effect first.

Linear organizational patterns are generally preferred by ______-context cultures.

A speech in which you began by discussing the percentage of drivers during a particular period of time who were drunk when involved in car accidents and then discussed number of deaths each year attributed directly to driving under the influence of alcohol, would be using which organizational pattern?

For a speech where you discuss major cities' proximity to one another, you would likely use ______.

In the ______ pattern, threads of thought refer back to the speaker's central purpose.

When a speech does not fit a typical pattern, the speaker may arrange the material into a series of appropriate topics. This is known as rational order.

______ ordering can be especially useful in informative speaking.

Explain the difference between "speaker responsible" language and "listener responsible" language.

A speaker who uses configural patterns devises a series of "______" that circle their topic instead of hitting it head on.

Topical order is used when other formats do not fit.