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NEO Workshop

PUBLIC SPEAKING - COM110/1 Spring 2020


Course
Mary Angiolillo
For information about registration please contact our admissions.

Course Contents:
The communication process, listening, impromptu speeches; freeing the voice and body, listening, outlining; personal experience speech; organizational patterns, beginning and ending speeches; delivering another person’s speech from an outline; informative speech; persuasive speaking, appeals, Maslow‘s hierarchy of needs; audience analysis, reasoning with evidence and argument, Monroe pattern for persuasion; effective communication in groups.

Here is the course outline:

1. Session on March 31

Mar 31

We will hear any informative speeches that have not yet been made and get started on material related to using presentational aids. If giving a speech submit your outline before class starts

2. Session on April 7

Apr 7

Subject is delivery - we will review major aspects of delivery as presented in chapter 13 of the course book. If there are demonstration speeches ready to be presented, we will respond to these.

3. Session on April 14

Apr 14

Presentations of Demonstration speeches will be made, either live or recorded. Outlines must be submitted to NEO before the class begins.

4. Session on April 21

Apr 21

Persuasion introduced: definition, logos/ethos/pathos, how to motivate change: cognitive dissonance, appeal to needs, positive and negative motivation, Monroe Motivated Sequence

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