“Everything he said was true. He just could not pull it all together.” In this unit on transitions and dialogical method, we are trying to say not only what is true but to pull it together in such a way that listeners can follow the thought because the components of the message—explanation, illustration, and application, in whichever order they appear; and they can change in different types of messages, but in whichever order those pieces appear—they are being glued together so that they can be understood