Oral Communication Skills (2223-1)

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CA109-T302 Oral Communication Skills (2223-1)
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Week 2 Introduction
Welcome to Week 2 of CA 109. During Week 1, we examined the importance of knowing how to speak in public and how to analyze our audience. We also considered important criteria for ethical public speaking. Beginning this week, we will examine each aspect of the process in greater detail and build our understanding of different types of speeches.
Our focuses in Week 2 are selecting a topic and purpose for our speeches and speaking to inform an audience. In Week 2, we will begin our first speech-the Elevator Speech.
Weekly Objectives
After studying the week’s material, you should be able to:
Identify the difference between a general and a specific purpose.
Distinguish between the specific purpose and the central idea of a speech.
Distinguish between informative speeches about objects, processes, events, and concepts.
Apply the six guidelines for the informative speaking discussed in this chapter.
Discuss the special nature of the online environment.
Focus Questions
Keep the following questions in mind as you work through week 2 tasks:
1. What are the three general criteria for judging informative speeches?
2. What are the five guidelines for online speaking?
3. What is the importance of having a backup plan for online speeches?
This Week’s Deliverables
Here are the things you must complete for week 2:
Discussion: Week 2, original post is due by Friday at 11:59 PM, CT; replies to peer’s posts are due by Sunday, 11:59 PM, CT. This assignment is worth 10 points.
Week 2 Quiz: Due by Sunday, 11:59 PM, CT. You must complete the quiz the first time you open it. You will have 10 minutes to complete the quiz and may not use books, notes, or any other forms of help. This assignment is worth 10 points.
Elevator Speech Worksheet: Due by Friday 11:59 PM, CT. The assignment is worth 10 points.
Conference with your instructor over your Elevator Speech Worksheet. Your instructor will contact you to schedule a Zoom conference. This conference will take place by Tuesday of Week 3.
Please NOTE: Your Elevator Speech is not due until Week 3; your Elevator Speech Worksheet is due this week, Week 2.
Reading/Viewing Assignments
Here are your assignments for week 2:
Read Chapters 5, 15, and 19 of the textbook.
View Chapter 5 PowerPoint Presentation.
View Chapter 15 PowerPoint Presentation.
View Chapter 19 PowerPoint Presentation.
View Chapter 5 Chapter Outline.
View Chapter 15 Chapter Outline.
View Chapter 19 Chapter Outline.
Read the Elevator Speech Assignment.
Read Elevator Pitch, West Virginia University, 2018.
Watch Ron Coleman’s Elevator Pitch at A. Levine Financial, Aaron Levine, 2011.
Elevator Pitch Winner, UtahStateCES, 2010
Week 2 Discussion Board Assignment
Instructions:
Go to the Week 2 forum on the Discussion Board, create a new thread for your post, and post 200 words responding to the prompt below. Make your initial post by 11:59 PM, CT Friday.
The word requirement is the amount of words it will take to compose an average answer – a “C” or “C+” level answer.
You will want to review the Discussion Board policies in the course syllabus and the Discussion Board rubric before beginning your assignments.
You are expected to meaningfully integrate and correctly cite our course textbook, additional course readings, and/or course viewing assignments in your response to this Discussion Board question and in your peer responses. Do not use any other resource beyond our course materials.
You should only utilize one quote and/or paraphrase from our course materials in your answer. Do not use more than one quote and/or paraphrase in your answer. You only use quotes and paraphrases to support your original ideas.
You must incorporate APA-formatted in-text citations and complete your entire discussion response with an APA-formatted Reference list. Plagiarism is not tolerated. If you need help with APA formatting or quoting and/or paraphrasing, please utilize The OWL at Purdue website.
Respond meaningfully (200-250) words to at least two posts by other students no later than 11:59 pm CT Sunday.
Discussion Questions:
1. Question 1 (Chapter 5)
You have been asked to deliver a speech to students who attend an under-served high school with a high minority student population. With this in mind, respond to the following:
What is your topic and specific purpose for this speech?
Explain why you chose this topic and why the specific purpose is appropriate for this audience.
In the responses to your peers:
Evaluate whether or not your peers’ topics would be relevant and interesting to the target audience and explain your evaluation, i.e. why or why not?
Submission Instructions
Complete the discussion by clicking on the Discussion title above or the button below and then “Create Thread.”
View the Discussion rubric by clicking the button below.
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Elevator Speech Directions
Description
An elevator speech is a brief, conversational speech designed to gain the attention of an audience with the goal of securing an appointment to discuss the topic in more detail.
This assignment requires you to design and present an original 2 minute “personal pitch” elevator speech in which you describe yourself and what you have to offer a prospective employer in your chosen career field/area and what you like about your chosen career/area.
Objectives
To practice techniques of building confidence as a speaker.
To apply the key steps of designing and presenting a speech to a real-life speaking situation.
To observe guidelines for ethical speech.
Process
After completing the reading and viewing assignments associated with the elevator speech, follow the key steps below to complete your Elevator Speech Worksheet and design and present your speech.
1. Consider your audience. For this assignment, your audience is a prospective employer in your chosen career field/area. You must keep this audience in mind throughout the speechmaking process.
2. Select and narrow your topic. For this assignment, the topic is you as a potential employee in your chosen career field/area.
3. Determine your general and specific purposes. The general purpose of a personal pitch elevator speech is to inform. The specific purpose of your elevator speech might be stated as, “At the end of my speech, the listener will invite me for an interview.”
4. Develop your central idea. The central idea summarizes your speech in a single sentence. The central idea of your elevator speech should include the contributions you could make to the prospective employer’s company/area and why you are interested in the employer’s company/area.
5. Generate the main ideas. The main ideas are the key points in a speech; these are derived from the central idea. Your Elevator Speech will have two main ideas. One main idea will be the contributions you could make to the prospective employer’s company/area. The other main idea will be why you are interested in the employer’s company/area.
6. Gather supporting material. Supporting material includes facts, examples, definitions, and quotations from others. Supporting material for your elevator speech will most likely include specific examples that illustrate your strengths and specific facts about the employer’s company/area that support your interest in the company/area. Remember that sources must be acknowledged in the speech.
7. Organize your speech. Every speech, including the elevator speech, should have an introduction, a body, and a conclusion. The introduction gains audience attention, previews the major ideas in the speech, and provides audience members with reasons to listen to the speech. The body presents and supports the main ideas. The conclusion summarizes the main ideas and restates the central idea.
8. Rehearse your speech. You may not use speaking notes. This speech is about you, so you have no need for crib sheets. Practice your speech several times, preferably with a partner, before you record the speech. Be sure to time the delivery of your speech to make certain it falls within the 2-3 minute time limit. DO NOT READ YOUR SPEECH.
9. Audience Requirement: All speeches must be recorded in live video format; audio-only recordings are not allowed. Your audience may either be live and in-person or live and digital. In either configuration, your audience must experience your speech live and in real-time.
When recording your speech, make sure you are well-lit and not washed out with light from behind you. Ensure you record your speech on a tripod or solid surface. You must deliver your speech from a standing position, unless otherwise approved by your instructor. Your audience and your instructor must see you on camera at all times.
Students will be required to show the in-person audience at the beginning and end of each recorded in-person presentation. Students will not cut-in the audience to the recording; rather the recording will flow from showing the audience at the beginning of the speech, to the delivery of the speech, then back to the audience at the end of the speech with no breaks in the video.
Digital audiences must be viewable on-screen for the entire recorded presentation. The recording of the speech must display the student presenter and the complete digital audience for the entirety of the speech.
To earn a speech grade of C- or higher, all CA 109 students are required to record their graded speeches in front of a live audience, either in-person or digital, of at least five adult humans, age 18 or older.
10. NOTE: All CA 109 students are required to submit their written speeches to Turnitin. Failure to submit a written speech to Turnitin will result in a grade of zero for the “Ethicality” section of each speech rubric. Turnitin is an electronic text matching system that compares text in a student assignment against a database of sources. As students are required to produce original speeches – not copy other pieces of work – Turnitin is another resource for students and instructors to ensure students’ work is their own.
11. In Week 3, you will deliver your speech. Record your speech and upload it to your Group Discussion Board