Communications

1. Read Ch. 14 from our free open access textbook: Stand up, Speak out – The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking.pdf

2. Pay particular attention to these parts from Ch. 14: page 372 on Extemporaneous Speaking, page 381-382 on Speaker Notes, and pages 384-393 Successful Speech Delivery from Ch. 14:

3. The correct in-text APA references for this week’s materials are: (Anonymous, 2011, p. __)

Discussion

PART 1. YOUR POST (18 POINTS)

For this discussion, please do the following:

Watch the attached Sample Student Speech:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vePGX0rii-A

The post should be about 1 page in length and use terminology from the reading.

1. Audience. Did the speaker have an audience of at least three people?

2. Entry. In a short paragraph, please review the speaker’s initial breath, walk up to the front, getting grounded in the “box,” and initial eye contact to the audience.

3. Delivery. In a long paragraph and using terminology and concepts from the reading, discuss how the speaker did with eye contact, articulation, projection, gestures, nervous movements; vocal pauses/fillers. For example, “I think the speaker had great eye contact. The speaker only looked at the index cards occasionally.”

4. Organization. How was the speaker’s hook? Was the speech well organized – explain. What was the final remark?

5. Grade her speech. Using the grading rubric for this speech (Personal Inventory Speech Requirements and Grading Rubric.pdf

please grade this speaker out of 50 points possible and explain your reason for taking points off or giving a perfect score on each element. You MUST fill in the entire document and either upload it to your post or type out your grade on each line of the rubric.

6. What do you think you will have to work on to earn an “A” on your personal inventory speech? Again, be sure to cite to the terminology and concepts from the reading.