Designed as a 13-week self-help course to meet the speech and language needs of college students in the areas of articulation, voice control, standard American usage, and fluency, this combination syllabus and workbook offers a rationale for the course, describes course objectives and content, and provides worksheets and evaluation forms for the following content areas: speech evaluation, characteristics of a pleasant voice, listening, aspects of pronunciation, black dialect, standard American English, vocabulary development, and fluency. In addition, it provides lessons for audiotaping on voice control, pronunciation, black dialect, American English grammar, vocabulary, and fluency. (HOD)