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COMM/110
INTRODUCTION TO ORAL COMMUNICATION
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COMM 110 Week 1 YouSeeU™ Support Resources
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COMM 110 Week 1 Public Speaking, Ch. 1
Who Is Responsible for the Message?
Class,
If you are currently or would like to eventually wind up in management, this is an important concept to understand because blame always falls first (and often incorrectly) on the employee. After considering the communications model shown in Ch. 1 (sender/receiver, message, channel, receiver/sender, feedback, noise, occasion, and cultural context), what do you think the textbook author meant by this statement: “The essence of the message lies not only in what the speaker intends, but also in the meaning ascribed to the message by the listener.”
COMM 110 Week 1 Public Speaking, Ch. 2
Our Three Faces
Class,
Japanese philosophers were the first to mention that we have three faces: assigned, controlled face, and a face that reacts before there is time to control it. Can you think of times when you displayed each of those faces?
COMM 110 Week 1 Electronic Reserve Readings Videos
Watch the following videos in this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings:
- Exploring Our Greatest Fear
- Practice Makes Perfect
- Symptoms
- Where Does Fear of Public Speaking Originate?
COMM 110 Week 1 Fear of Public Speaking?
Discuss the following questions with your classmates:
- Do you have a fear of speaking in public? What tips from this week’s readings and videos could you use to reduce your anxiety?
COMM 110 Week 2 Public Speaking for College & Career, Ch. 4
How can you best reach your audience and keep them interested? Learn some helpful tips in Ch. 4
COMM 110 Week 2 Public Speaking for College & Career, Ch. 5
Is there a topic of special interest to you? Get started on learning how to select, narrow, and develop your speech in Ch. 5
COMM 110 Week 2 Public Speaking for College & Career, Ch. 14
What are the keys to good speech delivery? Find out in Ch. 14
COMM 110 Week 2 Public Speaking for College & Career, Ch. 15
Ch. 15 shares the goals and types of informative speeches to help you with this week’s assignment. Review the guidelines and sample speech.
COMM 110 Week 2 Presentation Methods
To best prepare for a presentation, one must consider the best method, the type of presentation, and the audience for a given topic.
Discuss any of the following questions with your classmates and relate the questions to this week’s assignment to help you prepare:
- What are the differences between the four methods for delivering oral presentations?
- When would it be appropriate to use each presentation method?
- What is an informative presentation?
- What are the differences between speeches of description, explanation, and demonstration? How does each differ in organization and content?
- Why is it important to consider your audience when creating a presentation?
- How does knowing your audience determine the way you deliver a presentation on a selected topic?
COMM 110 Week 3 Public Speaking for College & Career, Ch. 14
Read Ch. 14 to review verbal and nonverbal characteristics of effective presentation delivery.
COMM 110 Week 3 Public Speaking for College & Career, Ch. 9
Find out in Ch. 9 about best practices for using visual aids in a presentation
COMM 110 Week 3 Help With Microsoft® PowerPoint® Assignments
What New Tips Did You Learn?
Class,
Both our textbook and this PowerPoint tutorial in the Required section give helpful tips on slide presentations. I’d like to hear what you learned from these sources that you didn’t know before.
Here are a few things to consider. The speaker needs to spend some time looking for truly interesting visuals. I’ve found, after years of viewing student PowerPoints, that sometimes people use the quick and easy clip art throughout the presentation instead of taking the time to search for more interesting graphics. There are so many amazing photos and artwork on the Internet! If you can’t easily find what you need, after doing an Internet search on the topic, click Images at the top of the search page.
Don’t forget charts, graphs, and diagrams. People love data, especially something that is easily understandable. However, you can’t just plunk a chart on a slide and move on. Take the time to walk the audience through the main points you want them to get from it.
Also, never go more than two slides without a visual element. The audience will concentrate on that while they listen to the speaker. When the audience has nothing to look at, the “boring-ness” of the slide is intensified.
COMM 110 Week 3 Constructive Critiques
Discuss the following questions with your classmates:
- What criteria do you use when performing a constructive critique of a presentation?
- What roles do word choice and tone play when providing tips for improvement?
COMM 110 Week 3 Electronic Reserve Readings Videos
Watch the following videos in this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings:
- Do Our Bodies Change Our Minds?
- Effects of Body Language on Outcomes
- Free No-Tech Life Hack
- Nonverbal Expressions of Power and Dominance
- Power Nonverbals & Gender
- The Purpose of Visual Aids
- Tiny Tweaks Can Lead to Big Changes
- Types of Visual Aids
- Using Visual Aids in a Presentation
COMM 110 Week 4 Public Speaking for College & Career, Ch. 13
The Power of Parallelism
Class,
As I said, for this chapter we are going to discuss various literary devices that will greatly improve both your writing and oral presentations. The next two are anaphora and epistrophe. These aren’t in the chapter, but I want you to consider them.
Anaphora is the repetition of the exact phrase or same powerful word at the beginning of a series of three or more sentences. Epistrophe is the repetition of a phrase or powerful word at the end of a series of sentences. Give an example of anaphora in a speech, then an example of epistrophe. You do not need to use existing speeches; you can make up your own sentences to illustrate, if you wish.
COMM 110 Week 4 Public Speaking for College & Career, Ch. 16
Recognize Persuasive Speech Patterns
Class,
What are the four patterns of organization discussed in the chapter?
Have you ever used one of these either in a presentation or simply in a persuasive conversation at home, work, or socially?
COMM 110 Week 4 Public Speaking for College & Career, Ch. 17
Match the Fallacy to the Situation
Okay Class,
We have to talk about fallacies. We hear them all the time as others try to persuade us, and I’m pretty sure every one of you has used fallacies in reasoning at one time or another. I know I have.
Match the following with the name of the fallacy shown below these statements. Most are in this chapter, but a couple aren’t.
- I like having lots of Asians in my classes because they’re all so smart.
- Parents refuse to talk to their kids about sex and that has resulted in a number of abortions.
- The Congressman would not support affirmative action in colleges because he’s a bigot.
- Either you support building a wall between us and Mexico or you are in favor of opening all the doors to America and just letting anyone who wants to walk in.
- Women shouldn’t be President because they are so emotional. I have a daughter who cries over everything.
- If I give one student an A in class and others hear about it, they’ll all demand A’s. If I refuse, then I’ll probably get sued and lose my home, or it may become a rental and the neighbors will be upset.
- slippery slope
- hasty generalization
- non sequitur
- either-or
- ad hominem
- sweeping generalization
COMM 110 Week 4 Public Speaking for College & Career, Ch. 9
What Could Go Wrong?
Class,
Have you ever viewed a presentation (or given one yourself) where something went wrong? How would you handle a situation like that?
(Be sure to answer both parts of the question. The focus here is on how we might solve problems.)
COMM 110 Week 4 Electronic Reserve Readings
COMM 110 Week 5 Public Speaking for College & Career, Ch. 3
A Listening Challenge for You
Class,
As we discuss and think about listening skills, I want to give you a challenge. Sometime before Monday, when you are with a group of people (social, work, family), every time you are tempted to speak, stay silent if possible. Listen and observe. Then report back with any insights you gleaned from this short experiment in listening.
COMM 110 Week 5 Public Speaking for College & Career, Ch. 19
Solving Problems
Students,
What is the Reflective Thinking Process?
Have you ever applied this to a problem with which you were confronted? Explain.
COMM 110 Week 5 Presentation Tools
Discuss the following question with your classmates:
- What are the three most effective tools you have learned in this course to help you deliver a successful presentation?
COMM 110 Week 5 Presentation Skills
Discuss the following questions with your classmates:
- In what ways have your views of speaking changed during this course?
- Do you feel more confident and prepared to deliver speeches? If so, why is that the case? If not, why not?
COMM 110 Week 5 Electronic Reserve Readings Videos
Watch the following videos in this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings:
- Listening
- Listening Essentials