SPC 1315 / SPC 1321
Fundamentals of Public
Speaking /
Business & Professional
Speaking
Monday - Friday classes,
9 am - 1:15 pm
May Mini 2013
PAC 112
Syllabus overview
 Be here on time, ready to start at 9 am
 Expect to use the full time most days
 Reasonable break times each day
 Outline shows test and speech dates
 Tests-- no make ups without major,
unexpected issue -- Test 1 Friday
 Speeches must be done on assigned
days – Intro Speech next Monday
Grading
 5 minute Introductory Speech
 Participation/Attendance/Critiques
50 points
50 points
100 points
100 points
100 points
 Three Exams
100 points
 Interview Project
 Informative Speech with visuals
 Persuasive Speech with visuals
each
Attendance
 Hard to pass a Mini Term if you miss
 Each ‘day’ same as more than one week of a long semester
 Attendance counted in hours
 Be sure to check the syllabus about the attendance policy;
expect to be in class each day
 Major event / partial class
 Work on speeches during some class time
 45 contact hours for a 3-hour course
Course schedule...
 Thursday at 10:00 -- Greg Shirley &/or Tina
Boitnott -- Career Development; 11:00 – Gee
Library
 For tomorrow:
 Read Chapters 1-3
 Bring a typed list of 3 or more Intro Speech topics
 Bring a typed list of 3 or more Motivational topics
 Bring a typed list of three or more Informative
Speech Topics
 Bring a typed list of three or more Persuasive
Speech Topics
Course Schedule
 Friday 5/17 – Test 1
 Monday 5/20 – Speech 1
 Thursday 5/23 – Informative Speech
 Friday 5/24 – Test 2
 Tuesday 5/28 – Test 3
 Wednesday 5/29 – Persuasive Speech
Before the ‘big’ topics...
 Your first planned speech this week is a 5
minute Informative Speech about ...
 “The best place in the world to visit (or) live”
 “The (now deceased) person I most admire”
 Create a typed full sentence outline
 Create a 4 x 6 typed note card
 Three main points plus an Introduction and
Conclusion
 Decide by tomorrow which place or person
you’ll talk about
 Do some research about it
The two major speeches...
 #1 -- Informative
 10 minutes
 Tell us about something interesting to you
 Find sources and cite them in the speech
 Outline due at end of this week
 Speech at the end of next week
 Persuasive
 Continued...
#2 -- Persuasive
 Convince us of something
 Change a belief, move us to action, etc.
 10 minute speech
 Requires more library research
 Outline due at the end of next week
 Speeches done on the last class day
Informative examples
 (1) ‘How to play lead guitar’
 (2) ‘How the Internet works’
 (3) ‘How the 4G cell phone system is different
from 1G, 2G and 3G’
 (4) ‘The differences in major political systems’
(democracy, authoritarian, monarchy etc.)
 (5) Developments in Artificial Intelligence
 (6) Types of cars that might replace the internal
combustion engine
 (7) How to get started investing in the stock
market
Informative examples
 (8) How the Romanov family influenced Russian
society
 (9) How the Beatles changed popular music,
 (10) ‘Understanding Iraq’
 (11) Differences in styles in artistic painting,
(12) The process of mummification,
 (13) Composing a symphony
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..... etc.
Informative...
 Maybe take something within your major you
expect to need to know more about, maybe that
was in a class lecture, so you know some starting
points, but you expect to be able to find out more
about it.
 Basically, tell us about something we would enjoy
knowing more about and that you can speak about
authoritatively (see linked PowerPoint)
 DO NOT make it to convince us of something –
that will be the Persuasive Speech.
Informative
 Pick something you’re interested in.
 NOTE: You CANNOT modify another class
project or someone else’s speech to create your
speech—that is plagiarism. If your speech content
is plagiarized, you fail the course.
 After thinking of topics, see the discussion in the
book about topic selection.
 Otherwise, think about a particular skill or
knowledge area you could find some sources on
and share more about with the class in a 10-minute
speech that uses ‘visual aids’ – also called
‘presentation aids.’
Outlining
Note Cards
Persuasive
 Takes greater work in finding ‘proof’ or
‘evidence’
 Depends on a sound logical analysis
 Specific Proposition will be stated...
 Specific Organizational pattern will be
followed...
Propositions...
 Proposition of fact
 Draw inferences from available date
 Is / is not
 Proposition of value
 Good or bad, right or wrong
 Proposition of policy
 Most common, most complex
 Advocates specific course of action
 Should / should not
Organizational Patterns
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Problem-solution (p. 148)
Comparative Advantages (p. 324)
Refutation Pattern (p. 325)
Motivated Sequence (like Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs)
1.
2.
3.
4.
Attention
Need
Satisfaction
Visualization
5. Action
 You must use one of these -- list at top of
outline
 Sample outline will also be provided
Persuasive Examples
 Violence on TV leads children to be more
violent
 All Americans should be required to be
available for military service at the age of 18
 The U.S. should break all diplomatic and
economic relations with China
 You should only buy American-made products
 Barack Obama is not an American citizen
More persuasive examples
 George W. Bush should have been
impeached
 Soft drinks are killing you
 Who really killed John F. Kennedy
 Proof that extraterrestrials exist
 Proof that ghosts exist
 Etc.
Reminder on Speech Topics
 The Best Place in the World to Visit (or) Live
 Select by tomorrow, outline due Wednesday
evening (email) and Thursday (hard copy), deliver
on Thursday
 Informative - Major Speech 1
 3 Topic ideas tomorrow, outline by end of week,
speech end of next week
 Persuasive - Major Speech 2
 3 Topic ideas tomorrow, outline end of next week,
speech in the third (final) week
Tests
 #1 over Chapters 1-8 this Friday at 9am
 Friday 5/24 – Test 2 (Chaps. 9-14 and
32 & 35)
 Test 3 Tues. 5/28 at 9 am
 See course outline, copy of syllabus, outline
and note card samples, etc. at...
http://www.tonydemars.com ... OR look
under Faculty Web Pages
So what else?
 Look back through syllabus today
 Class this week M-F
 Class next week M-F
 10 minute Informative Speeches Thursday
 Friday, Test 2 then research time for Persuasive
 Class Week 3
 Holiday Monday, Final Tuesday, Persuasive
Speeches Wednesday
Break on the way
 Resume in 10:00 -- be back and ready
 Start writing down topic ideas
 Notice the requirement of NOT using Google
searches but instead looking for material using
academic research
 Be prepared to follow up with a library contact
 Career Development
 This is for the Interview Project
 Pick a job, create or tweak a résumé and cover
letter
 Make initial visit, Schedule a mock interview
Break!
 Welcome to the class
 Uncertainties? Tony.demars@tamuc.edu
 Be sure to have materials ready to turn in at
the start of classes due
 Be sure to start now on topic ideas and be
ready tomorrow with your typed list of your
proposed ideas
 Back in your seat in 10:00
 (Give me signed forms)