Introduction
Course Objectives
When you have successfully completed this course, you will be able to
- feel confident when making oral presentations.
- consider your audience when choosing a topic and researching, writing, and making presentations.
- analyze speeches and say what makes them effective (or not).
- use various communication techniques and rhetorical devices to make your speeches more effective.
- recognize the different types of arguments and be able to distinguish among them.
- deliver informative, persuasive, demonstration, impromptu, and special occasion speeches.
- identify the rules for conducting successful interviews.
- interview a community leader.
- complete a mock job interview.
- perform dramatic works, including poems, monologues, and children’s stories, in a way that engages and affects your audience.
- write a play review.
- analyze media messages, including commercial advertisements and political campaign ads.
- use logical, ethical, and emotional appeals to enhance the tone and purpose of your speeches.
- create your own commercial for a new product.
- research a historical topic and present your findings in an informative speech.
- deliver a multimedia presentation.
