Monroe's Motivated Sequence

  For my persuasive speech I think that I would prefer to use Monroe's Motivated Sequence for my organizational patter rather than the Problem/Solution pattern.  I think that Monroe's Motivated Sequence fits my topic of encouraging people to save money and invest for retirement.  It would be a bit hard for me to boil it down to something as simple as their being a problem that people can't afford to retire comfortably and the solution is to save money.  Monroe's Motivated Sequence seems like it would be a much more interesting way to keep my audience engaged and get them, as a mostly young group that is not anywhere near retirement, to buy in to my premise that they should be sacrificing now for a reward later in life.

  I have never used Monroe's Motivated Sequence before, but it seems to have a very natural flow to its steps.  Without having started my outline, I can already very easily imagine the overall direction my speech would go and can even visual specific things I would like to communicate within each step.  I think that my biggest issue will be fitting all five steps in to a limited time frame, when time management has been my biggest problem all semester.  Although it does seem that the Attention is a natural fit for the Introduction and Action (the last step) is a natural fit for the Conclusion, so it would make sense for the other three steps to be broken down in to my three body paragraphs.  I am looking forward to the challenge of putting this newly gained knowledge in to action and successfully achieving an interesting and well-structured speech.