CLR1: Explain the role speaking publicly (oratory) has played in human society
CLR2: Align individual and cultural perceptions with the concept of storytelling
CLR3: Differentiate between rhetorical devices
CLR4: Critique instances of oratory by practiced and novice speakers
CLR5: Define the elements of form implemented in oratory
CLR6: Analyze components of informative and persuasive story and speech
Instructions
Create an original presentation, using the key principles studied on the course. This assessment is worth 30% of your final grade. It will be graded out of thirty (30) points, broken down as listed below.
Part Three: The Original Speech (15 points)
Record your five-minute presentation as if you were delivering it to an actual audience. Include all the elements you would use for a live presentation:
Dress for the occasion.
Find an appropriate venue (or imagine one)
Include visual aids
Use movements, gestures and eye contact
Record without notes whenever possible
Upload your video to YouTube via an Unlisted link, and include the link in the “comments” section of your submission. (For more information on how to submit an unlisted YouTube link, go to YouTube itself and do a search for “how to upload an unlisted link” – this will give you several video tutorials).
All three components must be submitted together in your final submission. Components submitted by email will be deleted.
[Please ensure you properly cite the information you take from other sources, using the APA citation guide. All assignments must refer, at minimum, to the course notes, the course readings, and at least three external supporting sources. Assignments without references will receive a mark of 0.]
Part One (1): The Summary (5 points)
Before writing your final speech, answer the following questions:
What is your background and experience that will allow you to give this speech with authority?
What organizational method are you choosing and why?
What is your main topic?
What are your subtopics?
What research have you conducted to support the content of your speech?
What rhetorical devices will you use? Why?
What is your persona and how will you develop it?
What is your STAR moment, or other memorable highlights?
Where will you draw inspiration?
Part Two (2): The Summary Report (10 points)
Section A:
How has your speech developed from your initial idea to the final presentation? What has your own Hero’s Journey looked like over the past fourteen weeks?
Section B:
Using the questions from Part One as a guide, what do you consider to be the most successful parts of your final speech? What do you still have to work on?