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In the section of Chapter 8 that listed and described the different patterns of organization for a speech I was particularly interested by Monroe's Motivated Sequence.  In the past I have been ignorant of the different specific types of speech patterns, but have mostly used Topical and occasionally Chronological speech patterns with just a smattering of Narrative speeches in certain occasions.  Monroe's Motivated Sequence at first reminded me of the type of speech that you might here at a self help seminar.  While I think that this is exactly what would be most effective and most likely to be used in that situation, I don't think it would be fair to give it the negative connotation of associating it with self help seminars.  I am not sure that I will have the opportunity to use this speech structure in our Public Speaking class, but I was very interested in it and am hopeful to use it at some point in the future.  I think that it is a creative way to structure a speech and would be a lot of fun to use.  I always like the feeling when giving a speech that the audience is hanging on my every word and with a well written speech in this pattern and the right dynamism I feel that an audience wouldn't be able to help but be swept up in it.

I think that I have at times used the first of the five steps of getting the audience's attention by relating the topic to the audience in other speech patterns.  I think that the key step is the second step where you get the audience to realize the existence of a problem and that they lack the information to solve the problem.  If you can nail that step then you would have good momentum for giving them the information and helping them visualize how the information would help them toward a solution.  That just leaves the final step and with an enthusiastic call to action you could conclude a very powerful speech.

"We are arrows to the action." -Knapsack