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Oral Communication · Chapter 8

The Seam Builder

On the page, your structure is visible — indentation, numerals, white space. In the air, all of it vanishes. Fill the six seams of this three-point speech on unit burnout, then press play and watch what a listener actually files at each one.

The speech you are stitching

I. Burnout on this unit is measurable, not anecdotal.  II. Three scheduling practices drive most of it.  III. Two of those three can be changed at the unit level.

Three main points means four transitions — in from the introduction, between each pair, out to the conclusion — plus a preview and a summary inside the point that carries the numbers.

Six seams

The handrail

0of 12 handrail points

Play the talk

Nothing has been said yet. Fill some seams and press play — the right-hand note under each line is what the listener files, which is the only structure that actually exists.