Organizational Patterns

Monroe’s Motivated Sequence is a series of five steps that are attention, need, satisfaction, visualization, and action. These steps draw in the audience’s attention and helps lead them to take some kind of action. The first step attention is simple, it is relating your topic and speech’s content to gain the audience’s attention. Then is Need which reveals to your audience that action is necessary because there is a certain issue involved with it. Satisfaction is a step that can be seen as a solution to your audience, Visualization shows what can be gained through the solution, so that the audience has a better idea of what their actions can solve. The last step action calls for the audience to want to help this problem and take action. With the Problem/Solution organizational pattern there is not a list of steps to follow but it involves an argument in which the speaker needs to notify the audience that there is some type of problem. Give reasons to why the problem needs to be addressed and how. I think I prefer to use the Monroe’s Motivated Sequence because I like how it clearly states what I would need to address.