Chapter 11 highlights the importance of organization in body paragraphs. When outlining speeches, body paragraphs should be separated by major claims and main ideas. It is important that the main points are limited in order to keep the audience’s attention during the entire speech. A big takeaway for me was that the primacy and recency effect (remembering the information at the beginning or end of the speech, not so much the middle information) play a large role in what the … Continue reading Journal 4