Organized around a limited number of main ideas. Audiences have to remember all of your ideas and their connections. Most speakers should work to limit themselves to 3-5 main ideas which are organized in a clear pattern that is highlighted for the audience.
Transitioning and signposting: Like in papers they help the speech hang together, defining the connections and relationships between the major elements of the speech. Overt and deliberate transitions are even more critical for speeches than essays because audience cannot go back to catch a link they may have missed the first time.
o Transitions link points together by expressing relationships between ideas.
o Signposts mark the ―direction‖ of the speech, linking structural segments, orienting the audience, and reminding them of where they are in the speech (what has come and what is next).