Marshall University
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CMM 103: Fundamentals of Speech Communication Section 223
Spring 2013
Tuesday/Thursday 9:30 AM
Smith Hall 414
Nikolas Payne
Smith Hall 230 (2nd floor, main hallway, by the vending machines)
816-646-1890
payne158@live.marshall.edu
Tu/Th: 8:30–9:30 & 12:15–2:00 M: 12:30–2:00 W: 11:00–12:00 & 5:30-6:30
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Action/ Sexual Harassment
Course Description:
A course designed to enhance the development of critical thinking skills and their application to verbal
and nonverbal interaction in interpersonal and public communication contexts. (3 hours)
Required Texts & Materials:
David Zarefsky; Public Speaking: Strategies for Success, 6th ed., 2011.
Kristine Greenwood. Fundamentals of Speech Communication Student Workbook, Dubuque: Kendall
Hunt Publishing, 2012.
1 Sony +RW Mini-DVD
Course Student Learning
Objectives
How students will practice each
objective in this Course
How student
achievement of each
objective will be
assessed in this Course
Students will be able to recognize communication as a transactional process by
Determining audience
orientation toward the topic
Lecture
Classroom activities
Audience Evaluation
Survey
Peer Evaluations
Speech Proposals
Oral Presentations
Critical Listening
Exam
Identifying supporting
material most relevant to the
audience
Lecture
Activities
Peer Evaluations
Speech Proposals
Supporting a Claim
Creating an Argument
Oral Presentations
Preparation Outlines
Critical Listening
Exam
Recognizing and adjusting to
nonverbal audience feedback
Lecture
Lecture
Activities
Activities
Peer Evaluations
Peer Evaluations
Students will learn to demonstrate critical thinking in the production and
evaluation of communication events by
Differentiating between
various types of evidence
Lecture
Classroom Activities
Speech Proposals
Supporting a Claim
Creating an Argument
Oral Presentations
Preparation Outlines
Exam
Extrapolating valid claims
from evidence
Lecture
Classroom Activities
Creating an Argument
Persuasive Speech
Preparation Outlines
Self Evaluation
Critical Listening
Exam
Identifying and producing
factual, value, and policy
claims
Lecture
Classroom Activities
Creating an Argument
Speech Proposals
Persuasive Speech
Preparation Outlines
Critical Listening
Exam
Identifying the types of
reasoning that link evidence
to claims
Lecture
Classroom Activities
Creating an Argument
Persuasive Speech
Preparation Outlines
Critical Listening
Self Evaluation
Exam
Identifying the limitations of
evidence
Lecture
Classroom Activities
Creating an Argument
Persuasive Speech
Critical Listening
Exam
Identifying weaknesses in
argument and reasoning
Lecture
Classroom Activities
Peer Evaluations
Creating an Argument
Speech Proposals
Persuasive Speech
Critical Listening
Self Evaluation
Exam
Producing valid arguments
Lecture
Classroom Activities
Peer Evaluations
Demonstrating the ability
Lecture
Creating an Argument
Persuasive Speech
Critical Listening
Self Evaluation
Exam
Students will produce organized informative and persuasive presentations by
Lecture
to capture audience
attention
Classroom Activities
Peer Evaluations
Classroom Activities
Peer Evaluations
Stating the thesis and
previewing their oral
remarks
Lecture
Classroom Activities
Peer Evaluations
Oral Presentations
Preparation Outlines
Self Evaluation
Critical Listening
Exam
Using transitions and
signposts to emphasize
speech structure
Lecture
Classroom Activities
Peer Evaluations
Oral Presentations
Preparation Outlines
Self Evaluation
Critical Listening
Exam
Concluding their remarks
with a summary of the
main points
Lecture
Classroom Activities
Peer Evaluations
Maintaining eye contact
with the audience while
speaking
Lecture
Classroom Activities
Peer Evaluations
Oral Presentation
Self Evaluation
Critical Listening
Exam
Using gestures which
complement the verbal
message
Lecture
Classroom Activities
Peer Evaluations
Oral Presentation
Self Evaluation
Critical Listening
Exam
Speaking with varied vocal
cues
Lecture
Classroom Activities
Peer Evaluations
Oral Presentation
Self Evaluation
Critical Listening
Exam
Oral Presentations
Preparation Outlines
Self Evaluation
Critical Listening
Exam
Students will develop effective extemporaneous speaking skills by
Grading Policy – Note, a student cannot pass the course without performing all
speaking assignments to a live audience
Written Assignments
Informative Speech Proposal
Persuasive Speech Proposal
Informative Preparation Outline
Persuasive Preparation Outline
Informative Self-Evaluation
Persuasive Self-Evaluation
Informative Peer-Evaluation
Persuasive Peer-Evaluation
Listening
Low-Stakes Writing
Point Value
40
40
50
50
15
15
25
25
50
50
Speaking Assignments
Speech of Introduction
Informative Speech
Persuasive Speech
Ceremonial Speeches
20
75
100
50
Exams
Unit Exams (2)
Final Exam
60 each
100
Additional Requirements
Discussion Questions
Chapter Notes
Participation in Class
75
75
50
TOTAL
Scale: A= 1000 – 900 B= 899 – 800 C= 799 – 700
1000
D= 699 – 600 F= 599 - 0
Assignment Descriptions
Descriptions of most assignments appear in the Student Handbook.
Peer-Evaluations: Students will be broken into small groups and asked to provide constructive criticism
for their group members’ Informative and Persuasive Speeches.
Low-Stakes Writing: Approximately once a week, we will have a brief in-class writing assignment.
These will be designed to get you started on applying the concepts we have discussed in class to a
variety of situations. Each writing assignment will be worth 5 points, and each student's ten highest
scoring assignments will be used to determine their overall score.
Discussion Questions: For each chapter, students will write three questions and bring them to class
(these can be hand written as long as I can read it). Discussion questions must be relevant to the
current chapter, but can be approached in a number of ways. Some possibilities include: clarification of
unfamiliar concepts, applying chapter concepts to a real-world situation, disagreements with the text
book, or implications of ideas that come up in the chapter. Each set of questions will be worth 5 points.
Students will receive points for questions even if the question is not discussed openly during class.
However, I highly encourage sharing the questions you create.
Chapter Notes: For each chapter students will turn in a outlines of the main ideas and information
presented in the chapter. These will be turned in on the day the chapter is covered and will be worth 5
points a piece (again, hand written is fine as long as I can read them). The purpose of these assignments
is to ensure that students read the chapter and begin thinking about its concepts before lecture. This
will aid students in understanding concepts, contributing to discussion, and gaining important
information not covered during lecture. Further, well done chapter notes will serve as an excellent tool
for exam review.
Attendance Policy
Here's the deal. You're supposed to be adults now, so I'm not going to force some draconian attendance
policy on you. However, this course is going to cover a lot of material and most of it will be unfamiliar
to you. Unless you have a university excused absence, you will not have opportunities to make up
points for missed quizzes, low-stakes writing, or other in-class activities, and you will miss a great deal
of information that will likely appear on the exams. In short, achieving a good grade in this class
requires consistent attendance.
NOTE: During speech weeks attendance is mandatory (excepting university excused absences).
Students who miss class during speaking days will lose 5% from their grade on that speech, or 10%
should they miss a day they were scheduled to speak.
Technology Policy
Cell phones need to be SILENCED before class. If you get a call or text during class which requires
immediate attention, please excuse yourself from the room, respond, and return to class as soon as you
can. Laptops may be brought to class for taking notes or conducting in-class research. Other uses of
cell phones or laptops (texting in class, checking Facebook, etc.) will result in a 5 point reduction of the
student's final Participation grade per instance. If the entirety of the participation grade is eliminated
and the student continues to violate the technology policy further 5 point reductions will be applied to
the student's final grade.
Due Dates/Late & Make-Up Work
Assignments need to be typed, printed, and turned in during class on the day they are due. Hand
written or emailed work will not be accepted.
If you know you're going to miss class and have a good reason (athletic event, wedding, so on) speak
with me BEFORE you miss class so we both agree on when missed work will be turned in. In the case of
an emergency or illness, contact me as soon as possible so that we may make arrangements.
Students may turn in assignments up to one week after the due date. Such late work will be marked
down one letter grade. Work more than a week late will result in an automatic zero (0) for the
assignment.
Classroom Guidelines & Protips
1) Come to class, fo real.
3) As this class is about communication, communicating is essential to getting the material. If
something isn't clear to you, ask a question. A lot of this stuff is going to be entirely new, and it will take
more than one try to understand. Don't freak out, just participate in discussions. It's very likely that
someone else is just as befuddled as you.
4) Read the chapters. All of them. There is far too much material in the book for me to cover all of it in
class. Just because something doesn't make it into a lecture doesn't mean it won't make it into an exam.
5) This class doesn't have to be boring. Just about everything involves communication, so just about
everything is fair game for discussion in this class. We only have to listen to me lecture for an hour
when you don't have anything to say.
6) It is the belief of the instructor that all human beings have dignity and deserve to be treated with
respect. As long as everyone can conduct themselves like respectable adults, we won't have any
problems.
CMM 104H Course Schedule (Tentative) Spring 2013
Tuesday/Thursday
Date
Topics/Assignments
Readings
January
Week 1
T 15
Chapters 1 Welcome to Public Speaking
Chapters 1,2,3
Assign Introductory Speech
R 17
Chapter 2 Your First Speech
Chapter 3 Presenting the Speech
Chapter 4
Week 2
T 22
Introductory Speech
R 24
Chapter 4 Listening Critically
Chapter 5 & 6
Assign Listening assignment
Week 3
T 29
Chapter 5 Analyzing Your Audience
Chapter 7
Chapter 6 Choosing a Topic & Developing a Strategy
Assign Unit I Exam Chapters 1-6
R 31
Chapter 6
Chapter 7 Researching the Speech
Chapter 9&10
February
Week 4
T5
Exam Review Day
R7
Unit I Exam
Week 5
T 12
Chapter 9 Organizing the Speech: The Body
Chapter11&13
Chapter 10 Introductions, Conclusions & Transitions
R 14
Chapter 11 Outlining the Speech
Assign Informative Speech Proposal
Assign Informative Speech
Week 6
T 19
Chapter 13 Informing
Chapter 15
R 21
Chapter 15 Speaking With Visual Aids
Informative Speech Proposal Due
Week 7
T 26
Informative Peer-Evaluations
R 28
Informative Speech & Preparation Outline Due
Assign Unit II Exam 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15
March
Week 8
T 5, R 7
Informative Speech & Preparation Outline Due
Week 9
T 12
Finish Informative Speeches and/or Review for Exam
R14
Unit II Exam
Week 10 – SPRING BREAK!
R4
Week 11
Chapter 12 Achieving Style through Language
Chapter 14 Persuading
Assign Persuasive speech Proposal
Week 12
Chapter 8 Reasoning
Persuasive Proposal Due
Chapter 8 Reasoning & Persuasive Peer Review Day
T 9, R 11
Week 13
Persuasive Speech & Preparation Outline Due
T 26
R 28
April
T2
T 16, R 18
T 23
R 25
T 30
May
R2
Week 14
Persuasive Speech & Preparation Outline Due
Week 15
Chapter 16 – Occasions for Public Speaking
Assign Ceremonial Speech
Ceremonial Speeches
Week 16
Ceremonial Speeches
Review for Final Exam (Comprehensive)
Exam Days
May 6, 7, 8 (classes meeting after 3 pm), 9, 10
Grades Due by noon Tuesday May 14
Chapter 12
Chapter 14
Chapter 8
Chapter 16