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Oral Communication · Chapter 8

The Pattern Fitting Room

One topic — hospital nurse-to-patient staffing ratios — and three rooms full of very different people. Pick an audience, then try each pattern on it. The skeleton rewrites itself, and the fit meter tells you what that room will be doing ninety seconds into your speech.

Who is in the room?

Try a pattern on them

Six workhorses, plus one persuasive sequence

Fit for this room

—pick a pattern

The body, in this shape