Monroes Motivated Sequence

Looking at Monroe's Motivated Sequence (MMS) and the problem/solution pattern. Before reading these, I thought I knew which direction I was going with my speech. But now, I think I have a better handle on how to present my speech. Monroe's Motivated Sequence simplifies the process into the "needs" (a necessity) and "wants" (a desire for) of the audience. You need to know whether you're going to "build" a need or a want in your audience so you can focus your persuasive speech in a particular way. Once you've determined which one works best for your speech, organize your speech around that objective. The problem lies when your goal is to provide your audience with a need and your presentation focuses on fulfilling a want, then your audience could be offended. Where as if you present your speech with the goal of satisfying the audiences want and you do it with the aspects of filling their need, then you may miss some strong persuasive appeals. MMS breaks it down into 5 steps:1) Get Attention, 2) Build the Need/Want, 3) Satisfy the Need/Want, 4) Visualize the Results and 5) Call for Action.

The Problem-Solution Pattern divides the persuasive speech into 2 parts. The first part is to present a "problem" and the next part is to provide the "solution". The first part involves having to show different aspects of the "problem" to include some type of facts or evidence. Later, in the second part, a potential "solution(s)" is/are presented and provides support for the effectiveness of this or these "solution(s)". This plan appears somewhat easy to follow. It's probably the easiest to understand and implement. this will probably be the pattern I use in my speech. since I seem to run out of time on my speeches, then I'll want to keep it as simple as I can.