Examples of signpost in the following topics:
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Types of Transitions
- Various types of transactions include: transitional phrases, internal previews, internal summaries, and signposts.
- Many speakers utilize "first, second, third" type numbering to as a signpost to indicate where they are in their speech.
- Signposts are often the numerical indications of the main body points.
- Signposts allow an audience to remember the key points and follow along in the speech.
- Signposts can also be used as questions.
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Make Connections
- Make connections among your ideas and with audience interests; use transitions, signposts, internal previews, and summaries when speaking.
- Connect the important ideas with signposts.
- Signposts are a particular type of transition in the form of a brief statement that indicates where the speaker is in the speech, such as first and finally.
- You use signpost transitions to help the audience organize ideas when you number the main points, such as first, second, etc.
- For example, you might saynow get this, this is really important, or now remember this when you want to signpost the attention of the audience.
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Power
- You can then place suitable transitional terms throughout the text—next," "therefore," "furthermore," "by contrast," "thus," and "finally," to name a few—to act as helpful "signposts" which seize and direct the reader's attention purposefully.
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Hold the Audience's Attention
- Use signposts, such as "Now get this..." or "Here is the important point, which I want you to remember. "
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Transpositional Symmetry
- They serve as signposts for the formal structure, as well as goals of the music leading into them.