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Teaching Public Speaking

Teaching Public Speaking. Faculty Fellows @ UK Dr. Deanna Sellnow Dr. Jami Warren. Anxiety Components Assignment Descriptions Reviewing, Revising, Rehearsing Grading. The Elephant in the Living Room: Public Speaking Anxiety. 75% of the adult population experiences PSA . . .

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Teaching Public Speaking

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  1. Teaching Public Speaking Faculty Fellows @ UK Dr. Deanna Sellnow Dr. Jami Warren

  2. Anxiety • Components • Assignment Descriptions • Reviewing, Revising, Rehearsing • Grading

  3. The Elephant in the Living Room: Public Speaking Anxiety • 75% of the adult population experiences PSA . . . • and that’s a GOOD thing! • Key: Managing anxiety effectively • Visualization • Relaxation • Systematic Desensitization • Cognitive Restructuring • Communication (NOT performance) orientation

  4. One minute essay: • Think of a time when you saw/heard a really engaging speaker. Describe the specific reasons you thought it was so good.

  5. Components of an effective (audience-centered) speech • Content • Structure • Delivery • Presentational Aids

  6. Audience-Centered CONTENT • Ultimately, its not about me (the speaker) • “The audience is the end and object of the speech” (Aristotle) • Exigence: the reason a speech NEEDS to be given (Bitzer, 1968)

  7. Content • Analysis: • Appropriate focus/purpose? • Supporting points (appropriate, thematic, rhetorical appeals, breadth, depth, and listener relevance)? • Reasoning (Claim/Support/Warrant)? • Time constraint? • Supporting Material: • Relevant? • Varied? • Credible? • Clear? • Distributed throughout • Properly Credited (on outline & in speech) • Number?

  8. structure • Macrostructure: • Attention Catcher • Listener Relevance • Speaker Credibility • Thesis statement & M Pt Preview Transitions • Thesis restatement & M Pt Summary Clincher (creative) • Microstructure: • Language (appropriate, clear, accurate, vivid)? • Style (rhetorical figures/structures, novelty, connectives)? • Technical jargon/Slang • Vocalized pauses (verbal garbage-- "uh," "um," "like," "ya' know”)

  9. Tell them what you’re going to tell them (INTRODUCTION) • Tell them (BODY) • Thematic, recognizable main point pattern (chronological, spatial, causal, problem-solution, etc.) • Tell them what you told them (CONCLUSION)

  10. Drafting Outlines • Iterative Ongoing Process of Developing Content & Structure • Rough Outlines & Peer Reviews • Formal Outline • Complete Sentences • Listener Relevance Links • Presentational Aid Markers • Internal References and Reference List • APA(or other) Style • Speaking Outline/Notes

  11. Drafting outlines • Goal, Thesis, Listener Relevance (Rhetorical Situation) • Body • Main ideas (grouping supporting materials) • Main Point Pattern • Main Point Development (Breadth, Depth, Listener Relevance Links) • Transitions • Introduction • Attention Catcher • Listener Relevance • Speaker Credibility • Thesis and Main Point Preview • Conclusion • Thesis Restatement & Main Point Summary • Clincher

  12. microstructure • Language & Style Choices • Appropriate • Inclusive • Accurate • Concrete • Vivid • Novel

  13. Presentational aids • Construction of Visuals • Large, neat, colorful, clear, simple, etc. • Symbol system • Other Aids (audio, audiovisual, sensory, etc.) • Peer Review • Integration • Concealed/Revealed • Referenced • Smoothly demonstrated

  14. Integration The “Vanna” Method Conceal Reveal Touch Integrate Conceal

  15. Delivery • Use of Voice • Intelligibility (rate, volume, pitch, quality, enunciation, pronunciation) • Conversational style • Emotional expression (convincing, committed, compelling) • Use of Body • Attire • Poise (no distracting cues) • Eye contact • Facial expressions • Gestures • Motivated movement • Initial & Terminal Ethos? • Modalities/Audience • Rehearsals/Peer Review

  16. Writing a Speech prompt • Purpose & Description • Rationale • Grading Criteria • Examples (formal outline, speaking outline, recorded speech) • Grading Forms (Instructor Critique Form, Classmate Critique Form, Self-Critique Form)

  17. Grading

  18. Rubrics Values For the assignment In the course Outcomes • Content (analysis, supporting material) • Structure (macro, micro) • Delivery (voice, body) • Presentational Aids (construction, integration)

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