Organizing & Outlining

Your Presentation

HCOM-100
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 International Journal of Inte
rcultural Relations

Volume 22, Issue 2 , 1 May

1998, Pages 187-225
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Facework competence in
Ting-Toomey & Kurogi 1998
Facework competence in intercultural
intercultural conflict: an
conflict: an updated face-negotiation updated face-negotiation
theory.
theory

Stella Ting-Toomey and

“Facework refers to a set of communicative Atsuko Kurogi
behaviors that people use to regulate their
social dignity and to support or challenge the
other’s social dignity.”
California State University at
Fullerton and Portland State
University, U.S.A

....Facework refers to a set of

communicative behaviors that
people use to regulate their
social dignity and to support
or challenge the other’s social
dignity……
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Organizing & Outlining Your
Presentation
 Organizing your main idea
 Organizing your supporting material

 Organizing your presentation for the

ears of others
Organizing & Outlining Your
Presentation
 Introducing and concluding your
presentation
 Outlining your presentation
Organizing Main Ideas Preview

 Strategies for organizing the main

ideas of the speech
 Chronological
 Topical
Organizing Main Ideas Preview

 Strategies for organizing the main

ideas of the speech
 Spatial
 Cause and effect
 Problem and solution
 Organizing Your Main Ideas

 Chronological
 Sequential order,
according to when each
step or event occurred or
should occur
 Organizing Your Main Ideas
 Topical
 Organized by sub-topics, equal in importance
 Recency, primacy, complexity
Organizing Your Main Ideas

 Spatial
 Arranging items
according to their
location and
direction
Organizing Your Main Ideas
 Cause & Effect
 Identifying a situation
and then discussing
the resulting effects
(cause/effect)
 Presenting a situation
and then exploring its
cause (effect/cause)
 Organizing Your Main Ideas

Problem and Solution

 Exploring how
best to solve a
problem or
advocating a
particular solution
Organizing your Supporting
Material
 The same five
organizational
patterns you
considered as you
organized your
main ideas can
also help you
organize your
supporting material.
Organizing your Supporting
Material
Specificity
 Group your specific information
followed by a general explanation or
give a general explanation first and
then support it with specific
information.
Organizing your Supporting
Material
 Arrangement from “Soft” to “Hard”
Evidence
 Soft evidence:
• Supporting Material based primarily on
opinion or inference, including
hypothetical illustrations, descriptions,
explanations, definitions, analogies, and
opinions.
 Hard evidence:
• Factual examples and statistics.
Organizing your presentation
for the ears of others
 Organizational Cues
 Signposts
• A verbal or nonverbal organizational
signal.
Organizing your presentation
for the ears of others

 Organizational Cues
 Previews
• Statements of what is to
come
• Initial previews
• Internal previews
Organizing your presentation
for the ears of others
 Organizational
Cues
 Transitions
• Verbal
• nonverbal
Organizing your presentation
for the ears of others
 Organizational Cues
 Summaries
• Internal summaries
• Final summaries
Introducing Your Presentation

 Introduction
 Get the audience’s attention
• An Illustration
• A Rhetorical Question
• A startling fact or statistic
• Quote an expert or literary text
• Tell a humorous story
 Introducing Your Presentation

 Introduction
 Introduce the
topic
 Introducing Your Presentation

 Introduction
 Give the audience
a reason to listen
Introducing Your Presentation

 Introduction
 Establish your
credibility
 Introducing Your Presentation

 Introduction
 Preview your Main
Points

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Concluding Your Presentation
 Conclusion
 Summarize the
presentation
 Reemphasize the
main idea in a
memorable way
 Concluding Your Presentation

 Conclusion
 Motivate the
audience to
respond
 Provide closure

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Outlining Your Presentation

 Preparation Outline
 Fairly detailed outline of central idea,
main ideas, and supporting material
 Standard outline format
 APA Style Reference Page
 Outlining Your Presentation

 Delivery Outline
 Provides all the notes
you will need to
present your
presentation
 Tips for Developing Your
Delivery Outline
 Use single words or short phrases
 Include your introduction and conclusion
in abbreviated form
 Include supporting material and
signposts
 Do not include your purpose statement
 Use standard outline form
 Use Delivery cues
 What questions do you have?

Homework:
• Reading?
• Assignments?