Department of Communication, Course Home Pages - COM 103
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COM 103: Public Speaking
"This course is an introduction to preparing and delivering public speeches, including emphasis on informative and persuasive speaking." (3 Credit Hours)
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Course Objectives
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To increase your confidence in your public speaking ability.
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To learn principles of effective public speaking.
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To reinforce existing public speaking skills and identify areas for improvement.
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To demonstrate effective aspects of speech preparation.
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To demonstrate effective aspects of speech delivery.
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To appropriately apply public speaking skills to a variety of speech contexts.
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Course Textbook:
Griffin, Cindy L. Invitation to Public Speaking
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Click on “Great American Speeches” to visit online speech archives…”one of the most comprehensive on-line collections of speech texts of contemporary American History. Here you can read the speeches and backgrounds of many of the most influential and poignant speakers of the recorded age. To help put each speaker in historical context, we have also provided a brief timeline of historical events.”
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Click on Citing Sources for a "short list" of citation examples for your works cited or bibliography page.
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Click on a "SPEECH ORGANIZATION" link below for an organizational worksheet.
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The links below lead to sample outline patterns or "templates" for informative and persuasive speeches that are organized in the different ways discussed in the textbook. These are only guidelines. Since speaking is as much as art as a science, different topics and audiences will demand different approaches to the organization of a speech.
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Informative Speech Organization Patterns
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Persuasive Speech Organization Patterns
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