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Alright, we're talking about content, and the next thing that you want to look for as
you're evaluating a speech -and I'm going to go ahead and tell you this is the one thing
that people tend to forget the most and it's absolutely one of the most important parts
of the speech- and that's transitions. What transitions are are simply sentences or statements
that tell us where we've been and where we're going. Let's say body part 1 was about cheap
hotels and hostels in Europe. Body part 2 is about cheap airfare tickets to Europe.
In between those two body parts a good speaker will say, "Okay, we've just finished talking
about great hostels and inexpensive hotels. Now let's take a look at inexpensive airfare."
Transitional statements are simply the tour guide -this is where we've been, this is where
we're going. You want to make sure those are there because that's really almost the only
way the audience can keep up with where we've been and where we're going.