Organizing & Outlining
Your Presentation
HCOM-100
Instructor
Name
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Ting-Toomey & Kurogi
1998
Facework competence in intercultural
conflict: an updated face-negotiation
theory.
“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.”
International Journal of
Intercultural Relations
Volume 22, Issue 2 , 1 May
1998, Pages 187-225
Facework competence in
intercultural conflict: an
updated face-negotiation
theory
Stella Ting-Toomey and
Atsuko Kurogi
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
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Organizing & Outlining Your
Presentation
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Introducing and concluding your
presentation
Outlining your presentation
Organizing Main Ideas Preview
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Strategies for organizing the main
ideas of the speech
Chronological
 Topical
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Organizing Main Ideas Preview
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Strategies for organizing the main
ideas of the speech
Spatial
 Cause and effect
 Problem and solution
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Organizing Your Main Ideas
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Chronological
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Sequential order,
according to when each
step or event occurred or
should occur
Organizing Your Main Ideas
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Topical
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Organized by sub-topics, equal in importance
Recency, primacy, complexity
Organizing Your Main Ideas
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Spatial
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Arranging items
according to their
location and
direction
Organizing Your Main Ideas
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Cause & Effect
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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
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Exploring how
best to solve a
problem or
advocating a
particular solution
Organizing your Supporting
Material
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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
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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
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Arrangement from “Soft” to “Hard”
Evidence
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Soft evidence:
• Supporting Material based primarily on
opinion or inference, including
hypothetical illustrations, descriptions,
explanations, definitions, analogies, and
opinions.
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Hard evidence:
• Factual examples and statistics.
Organizing your presentation
for the ears of others
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Organizational Cues
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Signposts
• A verbal or nonverbal organizational
signal.
Organizing your presentation
for the ears of others
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Organizational Cues
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Previews
• Statements of what is to
come
• Initial previews
• Internal previews
Organizing your presentation
for the ears of others
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Organizational
Cues
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Transitions
• Verbal
• nonverbal
Organizing your presentation
for the ears of others
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Organizational Cues
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Summaries
• Internal summaries
• Final summaries
Introducing Your Presentation
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Introduction
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Get the audience’s attention
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An Illustration
A Rhetorical Question
A startling fact or statistic
Quote an expert or literary text
Tell a humorous story
Introducing Your Presentation
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Introduction
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Introduce the
topic
Introducing Your Presentation
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Introduction
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Give the audience
a reason to listen
Introducing Your Presentation
 Introduction
 Establish
credibility
your
Introducing Your Presentation

Introduction
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Preview your
Main Points
Concluding Your Presentation
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Conclusion
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Summarize the
presentation
Reemphasize the
main idea in a
memorable way
Concluding Your Presentation
 Conclusion
 Motivate
the
audience to
respond
 Provide closure
Outlining Your Presentation
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Preparation Outline
Fairly detailed outline of central idea,
main ideas, and supporting material
 Standard outline format
 APA Style Reference Page
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Outlining Your Presentation
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Delivery Outline
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Provides all the notes
you will need to
present your
presentation
Tips for Developing Your
Delivery Outline
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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?