We will go through course expectations and briefly introduce ourselves. We will do some exercises in "immediacy."

We will explore the communication process in an interactive way. Class members will give speeches introducing each other. Personal experience speeches are assigned for next week.

We will share and respond to personal experience speeches.

We will explore organizational patterns that work for giving informative speeches. Impromptu speeches will be made in small groups to illustrate these.

We will explore techniques for making introductions and conclusions. The first test will be given in class. Some students may opt to give informative speeches.

We will present informative speeches to each other, teaching each other about something that we didn't already know.

We will prepare for demonstration speeches in class, examining how to use presentational aids. Preparation of Ted Talk assignment

Students present and analyze Ted talks related to communication.

Demonstration speeches

We start unit on persuasion, examining how it works and looking closely at the Monroe Motivated sequence organization pattern for persuasive speeches.

We will continue to examine persuasion, looking at types of reasoning used in argument as well as logical fallacies. We will role play positive and negative roles one can hold in group discussions. We will look at examples of persuasive speeches. Second test.

Outline for Persuasive speeches reviewed according to Monroe Motivated Sequence.

Persuasive speeches presented by half of the class (sign up is under resources)

Persuasive speeches presented by half of the class (sign up is under resources)

reserved for make-up speeches