In speech class, we had a discussion of the patterns of organization that we can use during speech. The patterns are chronological, spatial , causal, and topical. These patterns all have a specific use and all are used in specific scenarios. Chronological order is usually for how to speeches how to. These are going by order from what happened first or according to time sequence. Spatial is when you are trying to describe something but must use a specific order. For example, if you are trying to explain the order of operations to someone, you tell that person PEMDAS. You would not go in different order because that does not make sense and will end up confusing them. If you were just trying to explain operations, then the best choice will be to use Topical. You can pick any operation and tell them during any time because order does not matter in a Topical speech. Spatial speeches require a specific pattern while a Topical speech does not concern with order. The last type of organization is casual. Casual speeches go by cause to effect or vice versa. We also learned about sources. Some sources include newspapers interviews and surveys. The crediblity of these sources will be up to us to determine if they are reliable or not. We were also given the assignment of having to have a outline for our upcoming informative speech. We must have sources for our topic and this is basically what we did that class.
Thanks for the summary! I think you mean causal, not casual. Could you edit your post to correct that? I’ll add those words to our “Frequently Confused Words” list.