Exam 9: Organizing Anoutlining

A good and effective outline uses a consistent grammatical form.

The speech framer allows you to see your entire presentation on one page.

A preliminary outline puts all the sections of the outline into a clear and logical order.

Mind mapping requires structured thinking, careful analysis, and rigorous evaluation.

Words such as furthermore, meanwhile, however, in addition, consequently, and finally function as bridge words in a presentation.

The speech framer helps you make sure that every key point has supporting material to back it up.

Throughout a professional seminar, the basics of presentation speaking are compared to planning and preparing a gourmet meal for a large group of people. What organization pattern is being used in this presentation?

The 4Rs method describes a strategy for sorting through your ideas and materials to identify and refine the key points of a presentation.

The Latin word dispositio describes the speaker’s attempt to find out what he or she should say.

The Latin word dispositio describes the speaker’s attempt to arrange ideas and information for a presentation in an orderly sequence.

The speech framer helps you identify a place for every organizational component of a presentation while encouraging experimentation, originality, and creativity.

Recording presentation ideas and supporting material onto separate cards is the final step in the chunking process.

Which of the following statements illustrates a transition?

The speech framer includes all of the following organizational components EXCEPT:

The central idea of a presentation can provide a brief preview of the organizational pattern you will follow to achieve your purpose.

Most audiences respond negatively to poorly organized presentations.

A comparison-contrast arrangement shows the audience how two things are similar and different.

The Speech Framer is a mental format for remembering your speech content.

Which of the following statements illustrates an internal preview?

Audiences usually expect speakers to have five to eight key points in a presentation.