The art of Speaking Skill

How to organization of ideas in the speech message.

The organization of ideas in the speech message serves two basic functions.

First, having a pattern of organization helps you to shape your materials.

Second, appropriate structural design will help your listeners to understand and better appreciate your message.

Much of the meaning we would communicate, as well as the meaning others derive from our communication, involves categorizing our thoughts. One sequence of main ideas can convey a different meaning from another.

Your categories of ideas must represent the essence of your subject.  Your organization provides an opportunity to pretest your logic, for it can help you to see the relationship of the details you select to your purpose. It can also help you to control the relative amount of time devoted to each part of your speech. Organizing gives you a chance to consider psychological implications and to select points and lines of development in light of probable audience interpretation. It is also a time to make decisions about the style of your speech. The style to be used may determine your organization.

A clear framework will aid you in recalling your ideas and thus will increase your fluency. It may also enhance your credibility a speaker. Audiences generally respond better to speakers and speeches that are carefully organized. The well-structured speech hold attention and helps listeners to comprehend more easily.

The less motivated the audience, the more important is organization, according to the communication research which has been organization. For an unmotivated audience, it is important to arouse their interest and their need for the information immediately. It is also important that the speech be easy to follow.

Guidelines for Maintain the Free and Open Expression of Ideas

a democratic society depends on the free and open expression of ideas. The right of free expression is so important that it is protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. which declares, in part, that “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech.” Without the right of individual citizens to speak their minds on public issues. free government cannot survive. Just as public speakers need to avoid name-calling and other tactics that can undermine free speech. so listeners have an obligation to maintain the right of speakers to be heard.

As with other ethical issues, the extent of this obligation is open to debate. Disputes over the meaning and scope of the First Amendment arise almost daily in connection with issues such as terrorism, pornography, and hate speech. The question underlying such disputes is whether all speakers have a right to be heard.

There are some kinds of speech that are not protected under the First Amendment-including defamatory falsehoods that destroy a person’s reputation, threats against the life of the President, and inciting an audience to illegal action in circumstances where the audience is likely to carry out the action. Otherwise, the Supreme Court has held-and most experts in communication ethics have agreed-that public speakers have an almost unlimited right of free expression.

In contrast to this view, it has been argued that some ideas are so dangerous, so misguided, or so offensive that society has a duty to suppress them. But who is to determine which ideas are too dangerous, misguided, or offensive to be uttered? Who is to decide which speakers are to be heard and which are to be silenced? As Edward Kennedy explained in his acclaimed speech “Truth and Tolerance in America,” once we succumb to the temptation of censoring ideas with which we disagree, “we step onto a slippery slope where everyone’s freedom is at risk.”