narrative cohesion, week #8, post#3

Narrative cohesion is extremely important to public speech and communication. I am sure that each of us have heard a poorly prepared speech, which was out of order, and didn't make sense. If the speech talks about items out of order, for example the conclusion before the argument, or an argument without an introduction, would cause the audience to become lost, and lose interest in the orators message. I think that the cohesion of a speech is sometimes even more important that the actual message. Similar to a student doing a paper last minute, and doing poor quality on the paper, at least it is turned in and the student will receive some credit. In a speech, if no one listens to the orator, then what does the message matter?