Principles of Public Speaking

Principles of Public Speaking COMM 1200 – 04 Spring Semester 2004 Instructor: Office: Brenden Kendall LNCO Rm. 2930, H It’s a cubicle, not an office! Class Time/Location: Office Hours: E-mail: MWF, 2:00 – 2:50pm, OSH 237 W, 3:00-4:00pm; F, 12:30-2pm brenden.kendall@utah.edu Required Text O’Hair, Stewart, and Rubenstien. A Speaker’s Guidebook, Second Edition. Required Supplies Blank Videotape. Please purchase one 30-minute (or longer) blank videotape to record several of your presentations. You will retain the videotape when the class is over. Course Description So, you’ve decided to take a public speaking course. This choice should prove to be as valuable to you as many of the significant achievements in your life: advancing your career, starting a family, buying peanut butter without partially hydrogenated soybean oil. At the least, Principles of Public Speaking should enable you to develop the essential knowledge and skills for any successful and responsible member of civic society. It is my hope that you will develop an effective personal style and repertoire of communication abilities that apply to the variety of public speaking situations that you anticipate participating in throughout your life. Of course, that can only occur once you are knowledgeable of the course goals and policies… Course Goals • To Understand: This course presents basic communication concepts and principles of effective discursive practices in several contexts. • To Apply: In all activities we’ll relate communication processes to the real-world contexts in which they occur to apply our understandings to events and situations in our own lives. • To Practice: Experiencing the enactment and outcomes of utilizing concepts we are studying, and exploring alternatives for communicating with others under a variety of conditions is a central goal of this class. University Policies 1. The Americans with Disabilities Act requires that reasonable accommodation be provided for students with physical, sensory, cognitive, systemic, learning, and psychiatric disabilities. Students need to contact the instructor at the beginning of the semester to discuss any such accommodations. 2. The Drop/Withdrawal policy is available on the University’s website and from Student Services. Briefly, you may drop a course during the first seven calendar days of the semester and withdraw (with a “W”) during the next five days without tuition charges. After that, withdrawal is possible only “in cases of compelling non-academic emergencies” through petition to the dean of your college. 3. The Student Code spells out specific rights of students in the classroom. The Code also specifies proscribed conduct, including cheating on exams, collusion, and plagiarism. Plagiarism includes submitting someone else’s work as your own. Students found guilty of plagiarism will receive an “E” for the course. Besides, academic dishonesty often takes more effort than doing an assignment yourself. My job is to facilitate learning, not to impede academic progression. If you find yourself in a tough situation, it’s best to speak with me as soon as possible. Course Policies 1. Attendance is Imperative for Success This course is based on a guiding understanding that your knowledge and ability in communicating with others will naturally grow by actively engaging in communicative activities and exercises, by offering and accepting thoughtful feedback, and through critical reflection to more fully understand your own public speaking performances. It should come as no surprise—it might, however—that these will occur during class time. In addition, public speaking requires a public available for address! Consequently, just reading the book or getting notes from another student will not be sufficient for you to succeed in this class. Grades are structured to give you points for attending and participating in various types of classroom activities (e.g., participating in skill practice, providing useful feedback to speakers, delivering speeches). I will take attendance and have structured point distribution in such a way as to prioritize attendance. This part of your course grade is completely within your control. If you must be absent, please contact me—preferably in advance. Here’s how the attendance system works (see visual in the semester schedule, below): • You will be required to provide the following on certain days: outlines or rough drafts for workshop on the days prior to speeches, structured feedback for presenters during speech days on which you do not present, speeches delivered on assigned dates. You will receive points for satisfactorily completing each of the above tasks. • On all remaining days, you must register your name on the attendance roster to receive the points for that day. Each day is worth 5 points. 100% = 100 points. If you cannot be present due to a university-sponsored event, work-related conflict, or family / medical emergency, please notify me as soon as possible (preferably in advance). There are two days “extra,” that is, 18 days available for attendance points and 20 possible. The final 10 points will be assigned according to the instructor’s assessment of the student’s level of participation throughout the semester. • Be sure to remember signing in each day. I recommend Post-It Notes®, reminders on your daily calendar, and the buddy system to avoid lapses of memory that are all too common, but will not be forgiven. Yes, you must be present for the entirety of class to earn attendance points. 2. Our Learning Environment We will maintain our classroom as a safe and productive place to learn. We are all responsible for fostering an environment open to observing, discussing, and reflecting upon our own and others’ communicative behaviors in order to learn. Thus, each one of us will need to be conscious of our role in providing a place where every class member, given all our differences, will feel and function as part of the class. These concerns include evaluation of peers, selection and delivery of topics and materials for presentation, and all other responsibilities entailed in participation in our class. If, at any time or for any reason, you are at unease about or feel uncomfortable with the classroom environment please contact me immediately in order to resolve/improve the situation. 3. Your Current E-mail Address You are asked to update and maintain a current email address on the University website. This will allow me to send an email to everyone in the class. • To update or add your current email address, go to the University’s website as you do to register for classes (www.acs.utah.edu/prod/bin/student). Hit “Secured Student Access” (with student ID and PIN) then “Your Profile” and click on “Email Address.” You can update or add your address there. • If you do not have an email address, or do not have internet access, please let me know and I’ll help you make this happen. • My email address is brenden.kendall@utah.edu. Save speaking with me in person, email is the best possible way to reach me. Nevertheless, I ask that you realize that I do have a life and am unable and unwilling to be constantly online and immediately responsive last-minute messages. Please plan ahead for a reasonable turn-around time to your emails. 4. Due Dates and Presentation Dates Are Firm All work is to be completed by the dates given in the syllabus or on the dates we have agreed to as a class. Papers are due at the beginning of class on the due date. Assignments submitted after the beginning of class on the due date will be assigned reduced credit, the amount figured at the discretion of the instructor. Failure to complete all graded assignments (below) will result in a substantially lower course grade and may result in a failing grade for the course. Prior arrangement to take an exam early or to modify our presentation schedules is possible in cases of a documented University-related or medical scheduling conflict. Course Assignments • Attendance, 5 points / day (100 points): See policy above. • Weekly Journal, 5 points / week (75 points): Each week you will email me a journal entry around one to three full paragraphs long. (A full paragraph ought to be easily more than three sentences long; at the same time, a weekly novella will be a bit much for both you and me!) While the specific topic will be up to you, you should use this venue to critique forms of public address that you see in the world, reflect upon your own performances and developments, and so forth. Journal entries are due every Friday, time- stamped no later than the beginning of class. • Workshop Materials, 5 points / workshop (15 points): Days prior to speeches, excepting the speech of introduction, will be reserved for workshop time, during which students will work together and with me to fine-tune and prepare rough drafts or outlines. You must present a complete rough draft or outline of your presentation on workshop days to receive credit. • Peer Feedback Forms, 5 points / day (60 points): On speech days when you do not present, you will be required to provide structured feedback to your peers to assist them and yourself in learning. • Speech of Introduction, 25 points: This speech, your first public presentation of the semester, serves to familiarize you with your classmates, set the foundations of our public speaking environment, and introduce you to fundamental elements of speech preparation and delivery. • Informative Speech, 100 points: For this presentation you will teach and inform the audience about a topic on which you are an authority. In this 4-6 minute speech you will be required to provide useful, illuminating supporting material to demonstrate and explain the subject of your speech. • Persuasive Speech, 100 points: The ability to research and construct a cogent argument is necessary for most public speaking engagements. In 6-8 minutes, you will employ the skills learned to this point to persuade your audience toward some position on a contentious topic or debate. You are encouraged to be both practical (is this a useful exercise in practice for your “real life”?) and creative (try stay away from the “standard” topics on which people have entrenched opinions—e.g., gun rights, abortion) in selecting your topic. • Group Presentation, 100 points: The group presentation will incorporate each of the previous speaking purposes, with the additional task of cooperating in a team of approximately 4 to craft an extended presentation (no more than 45 minutes) on a topic of your choice. • Impromptu Speech, 25 points: Life often demands that we deliver speeches—though we may not recognize them as such—often with little preparation. These 2-4 minute speeches have you speak on a topic you receive only minutes before delivery. The idea here is not torture, I promise, but to give you a chance to demonstrate you’ve developed throughout the semester in formal speaking situations, during in-class activities, and while practicing in front of your mirror at home! • Public Speech / Lecture / Presentation Evaluation Paper, 50 points: Sometime before the midpoint in the semester, you are to attend a public speaking event outside of our class and write a thoughtful critique of the speaker. In 2-3 pages, you should discuss topics such as the strengths and limitations of the speaker’s style, organization of content, audience assessment, and the like. • Final Exam, 50 points: The final exam for this course will require you to write in-class essays that reflect upon your growth as a public speaker and demonstrate knowledge of skills and principles practiced throughout the semester. Course Grades Totals from above = 700 possible points. 350 points for speeches, 350 points for non-speech activities. Final Grades: B+ = 89-87% C+ = 79-77% D+ = 69-67% A = 100-94% B = 86-84% C = 76-74% D = 66-64% A- = 93-90% B- = 83-80% C- = 73-70% D- = 63-60% E = 59% ↓ Tentative Course Schedule ⮳Schedule Legend, AKA, “Say What?!” • Date = Whoa, man, what day is it? • Topic / Activity = The undeniably relevant subject area covered, and unbelievably useful activity planned. • Chapter = You mean I have to read in college? • Points! = You’ll earn points and a place on Santa’s “good list” for being present and completing the following on the days indicated. ⮳ A = attendance J = weekly journal W = workshop S = speech F = peer feedback P = paper E = exam Date Topic / Activity Chapters Points! 12-Jan Introductions, syllabus, registration 14-Jan Three Truths and a Lie 16-Jan What is public speaking? …and speech anxiety 19-Jan MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY – NO CLASS 21-Jan Speaking, listening, and other fun activities 23-Jan Ethics aren`t just for Enron anymore! 26-Jan Exquisite Corpse, topic selection [SOI schedule] 28-Jan Thesis statements, audience analysis 30-Jan Interviews, a preparation for Speech of Introduction 2-Feb SPEECH OF INTRODUCTION 4-Feb SPEECH OF INTRODUCTION 6-Feb SPEECH OF INTRODUCTION 9-Feb Organizing the speech and your messy, messy life 11-Feb Speech Mad-Libs, organization arrangements 13-Feb Informative speeches, outlines [IS Schedule] 16-Feb PRESIDENT’S DAY – NO CLASS 18-Feb Research and support, Intro and conclusion 20-Feb Informative speeches WORKSHOP 23-Feb INFORMATIVE SPEECH 25-Feb INFORMATIVE SPEECH 27-Feb INFORMATIVE SPEECH 1-Mar US Postal, UPS, and FedEx (3 deliveries) 3-Mar Visual aids, presentation props 5-Mar PAPERS DUE, video speech analysis, form groups 8-Mar The Persuasive Speech [PS & GP schedule] 10-Mar Developing and organizing arguments 12-Mar Research Day, attendance not required 15-Mar SPRING BREAK -- NO CLASS 17-Mar SPRING BREAK -- NO CLASS 19-Mar SPRING BREAK -- NO CLASS 1, 5 J, A 2, 3 A 4, 16 J, A 7 A 7, 6 A A, J S, F S, F S, F, J 11 A 12 A 23, 13 A, J A 8-10, 14-15 A W, J S, F S, F S, F, J 17-19 A 20-21 A A, J, P 24, 25 A 25, 26 A J ... - tailieumienphi.vn