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Direct linkShannon Pappas – Communication Teacher, 2024
This activity aims to assist students with persuasive tactics for argumentative speeches. The activity involves students creating an argumentative speech to defend a hot-take assertion chosen from a list provided by the instructor. In small groups, students will craft an argument supporting their hot-take assertion and present it to the class.…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Public Speaking, Speeches, Models
Hayward, Pamela A. – Communication Teacher, 2017
Courses: Introduction to public speaking, advanced public speaking, hybrid/survey introduction to communication. Objectives: At the end of this activity, students will be able to (1) explain the elements of a speaking outline and discover these elements in real-world speech examples, (2) recreate outline formats effectively in their personal…
Descriptors: Public Speaking, Speeches, Assignments, Speech Instruction
McKenna-Buchanan, Timothy; Munz, Stevie – Communication Teacher, 2014
This assignment described here serves as a meaningful way to engage students who are perhaps less involved in giving back to their own community (Galston, 2003). By engaging students in "pay it forward" experiences, this assignment can help foster a sense of active citizenship. Often political engagement is associated with acts related…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Speeches, Assignments, Citizenship
Charlesworth, Dacia – Communication Teacher, 2010
Invention deals with the content of a speech, arrangement involves placing the content in an order that is most strategic, style focuses on selecting linguistic devices, such as metaphor, to make the message more appealing, memory assists the speaker in delivering the message correctly, and delivery ideally enables great reception of the message.…
Descriptors: Public Speaking, Speeches, Rhetoric, Singing
Deifell, David C. – Communication Teacher, 2007
This article presents a public speaking assignment that takes the study of rhetoric seriously. First, it shifts the approach from the common typology of informative, persuasive, and ceremonial speeches toward forensic, deliberative, and epideictic rhetoric. Second, this assignment takes rhetoric seriously by generating the understanding that all…
Descriptors: Public Speaking, Assignments, Rhetoric, Rhetorical Invention
Walters-Kramer, Lori A. – Communication Teacher, 2004
Objective: To learn about candidates for a political office by presenting and listening to speeches about the candidates and their platforms. Type of speech: Informative. Point value: 100 points, which is 10% of course grade. Requirements: (a) References: Minimum of 3 from recent and varying publications; (b) Length: 5-7 minutes; (c) Visual aid:…
Descriptors: Public Speaking, Young Adults, Speech Communication, Higher Education
