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Speakers can use a variety of different organizational patterns including categorical/topical, comparison/contrast, spatial, chronological, biographical, causal, problem-cause-solution, and psychological.

Demography is the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations.

Generally, the purpose of Speech Writing is to inform, persuade, instruct, or entertain. By taking a step back to examine the general purpose of the speech, a speaker reinforces his or her thoughts and ideas by making sure that everything presented to argue your case aligns to that general purpose.

Taking an audience-centered approach is important because a speaker's effectiveness will be improved if the presentation is created and delivered in an appropriate manner.

When writing a speech, you need to consider all of these methods: Analyze your audience,Select a topic, Review the topic in light of audience analysis, Determine speech purpose, Compose a thesis statement, Develop the main points, Gather supporting details,Separate speech into its major parts.

Communication strategies can be verbal, nonverbal, or visual. ... Nonverbal communication strategies consist of mostly visual cues, such as body language, facial expressions, physical distance between communicators, or the tone of your voice

The 5 basic kinds of illocutionary acts are: representatives, directives, commissives, expressives, and declarations.

Speech act theory is a subfield of pragmatics that studies how words are used not only to present information but also to carry out actions.

performance utterances are sentences which not only describe a given reality, but also change the social reality they are describing.

A perlocutionary act is a speech act, as viewed at the level of its consequences, such as persuading, convincing, scaring, enlightening, inspiring or otherwise affecting the listener.