PUBLIC SPEAKING - COM110/1 Spring 2020
Course

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 |