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Book: Devito, J.A. (2020) Essentialsof Human Communication 10th edition Part 3 chapter 11 & part 3 chapter 12

Description:

For this assignment, you will prepare and write a delivery outline for a persuasive or informational speech.

Objectives:

  • Engage in the first six steps of preparing a speech, including selecting a topic, analyzing your audience, researching your topic, collecting supporting materials, developing main points, and organizing your speech materials.
  • Practice speech preparation steps seven though nine which are wording a speech, constructing a conclusion and introduction, and rehearsing your speech.

Instructions:

  1. Review the steps for preparing and delivering an effective speech that you explored in the textbook and in the learning activities.
  2. Prepare a three to four page sentence outline on a topic of your choice. (Your topic can be persuasive or informational.)
  3. Use the following checklist to ensure that your speech is effective:
    • Choose a topic that is relevant and interesting to your audience, with a clear purpose.
    • Ensure that you adequately research your topic.
    • Include an introduction in your outline that gains attention and orients the audience.
    • Be sure that your speech is clear, vivid, appropriate, well-organized, and powerful.
    • Be sure that each main point is supported adequately.
    • Create a speech with personal style by asking direct questions and creating immediacy.
    • Be sure that your conclusion summarizes your thesis and provides closure.

Assignment Submission:

  • The use of outside resources is strongly recommended, and all speeches must be cited using current APA 7 format.
  • Rubric

Speech Assignment Rubric (2)

Criteria Ratings Pts

This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAssignment Ideas
10 pts

Ideas are clear, insightful, thought-provoking, and focused so that they consistently support the topic, thesis and audience for the speech.

 8.5 pts

Ideas are clear and focused to support the topic and a clearly-stated central idea, but are not consistently insightful or thought-provoking.

 7 pts

Ideas are clear but conventional or general, and support the topic, thesis, and audience for the speech.

 2.5 pts

Ideas are unclear or clichéd and demonstrate a lack of focus in support of the topic or a central idea, which may be vague or missing.

10 pts

This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAssignment Development
10 pts

Development is fresh, with abundant details and examples that arouse audience interest and provide relevant, concrete, specific and insightful evidence in support of sound logic.

 8.5 pts

Development is adequate, but may lack depth, with details and examples that arouse audience interest and provide relevant, concrete, specific evidence in support of sound logic.

 7 pts

Development is sufficient but general, providing adequate but perhaps not interesting details, examples, and evidence that include no logical fallacies or unsupported claims.

 2.5 pts

Development is insufficient, providing scarce or inappropriate details, evidence, and examples that may include logical fallacies or unsupported claims.

10 pts

This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeOrganization
10 pts

Organization is coherent, unified and effective in support of the speech’s purpose/ plan and consistently demonstrates effective and appropriate rhetorical transitions between ideas and paragraphs.

 8.5 pts

Organization is coherent, unified and effective in support of the speech’s purpose/ plan and usually demonstrates effective and appropriate rhetorical transitions between ideas and paragraphs

 7 pts

Organization is coherent and unified overall in support of the essay’s purpose/ plan, but is ineffective at times and may demonstrate abrupt or weak transitions between ideas or paragraphs.

 2.5 pts

Organization is confused and fragmented in support of the essay’s purpose/ plan and demonstrates a lack of structure or coherence that negatively affects readability.

10 pts

This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeStyle & Mechanics
10 pts

Readable and rhetorically effective in tone, incorporating varied sentence structure, precise word choice and correct grammar, spelling and punctuation. (Mastery of style)

 8.5 pts

Style is readable and rhetorically effective in tone, incorporating varied sentence structure, effective word choice, and correct grammar, spelling and punctuation. (Effective style)

 7 pts

Style is readable, but unremarkable in tone, sometimes including a lack of sentence variety effective word choice, or some distracting, but not serious, errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation. (Readable but inconsistent style)

 2.5 pts

Style is incoherent or inappropriate in tone, including a lack of sentence variety, ineffective or inappropriate word choice, and serious errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation. (Ineffective style)

10 pts

This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeFormat
10 pts

Format is correct, meets all assignment directions, and works expertly to support the speech’s purpose/plan.

 8.5 pts

Format is correct, meets all assignment directions, and works generally to support the speech’s purpose/plan.

 7 pts

Format is mostly correct, meets critical aspects of assignment directions, and works mostly to support the speech’s purpose/ plan.

 2.5 pts

Format is faulty, does not meet sufficient aspects of the assignment direction, and does not support the speech’s purpose/ plan.

10 pts

Total Points: 50
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