Supports clarify and reinforce main idea statements. Clear expression and sound reasoning depend on how well you integrate a main idea and supporting details. Speech preparation in the Ten Step system moves from one logical step to the next. A key step is to generate main ideas and supports and join them together to make a kind of verbal paragraph. Patterns of Arrangement organize the speech body in a global structure so that groups of main ideas and supports relate logically to one another.
Transitions help listeners follow the speaker from one thought sequence to another.
Brief Transitions may be inserted anywhere in the speech preparation. However, the Manual suggests that speakers insert Full Sentence Transitions in certain key places in the speech Preparation Outline. The first major division of the speech is the Introduction . The Preparation and Delivery outlines. Just as computers need careful instructions and data to produce results, good speeches cannot simply materialize as the speaker speaks.