Assignment Schedule
| Day | Topics | Speaking Due | Writing Due | Reading/viewing Due* |
| 1 | Course overview | Speech: Gates (video); Jobs (video); DiSesa (video) | ||
| 2 | Public Speaking defined, Planning, Topic/Thesis, Main Points, Arrangement, Outlines, Tributes, Delivery | |||
| 3 | Anxiety, Transitions, Practice, Voice, Body | Speech 0 |
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| 4 | Introduction, Closing, Credibility, Informative Strategies | Speech 1 preview | Audience Analysis 1 |
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| 5 | Rehearsal 1 | Outline 1 (first draft) | ||
| 6 | Speech 1 | Outline 1 (final draft) and speaker's notes | ||
| 7 | Speech 1 | Outline 1 (final draft) and speaker's notes | ||
| 8 | Conference presentations | Penrose,
ch. 5 Conference Sample: Talk about AIDS |
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| 9 | Ethics, Research, Support, Reasoning, Persuasion | Post-mortem 1 | 3,
8, 15, 16, 22 Conference Sample: Water in Microgravity |
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| 10 | Visual Aids | Speech 2 preview | Audience Analysis 2 | 27 Conference Sample: Multiplayer Online Communities |
| 11 | Rehearsal 2 | Outline 2 (first draft) | ||
| 12 | Group 1: Almquist, Chagnon, Cicatiello, Debes, Foschini, Ibrahim | Speech 2 | Outline 2 (final draft) and speaker's notes | |
| 13 | Group 2: Khunti, Levin, Mukalian, Patel, Pham, Rooney | Speech 2 | Outline 2 (final draft) and speaker's notes | |
| 14 | Audience, Attention, Motivation | 7,
18, 20, 34
Corporate defense Sample: Hatfield (video) |
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| 15 | Group Speaking, Speech Situation |
Corporate defense Sample: Google (video) |
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| 16 | Post-mortem 2 | Campbell
Q&A Sample 1: Financial Analysts Q&A Sample 2: Bernanke |
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| 17 | Language and Style, Answering Questions | Speech 3 preview | Audience Analysis 3 | 17, 29 |
| 18 | Rehearsal 3 | Outline 3 (first draft) | ||
| 19 | Group 2: Khunti, Levin, Mukalian, Patel, Pham, Rooney | Speech 3 | Outline 3 (final draft) and speaker's notes | |
| 20 | Group 1: Almquist, Chagnon, Cicatiello, Debes, Foschini, Ibrahim | Speech 3 | Outline 3 (final draft) and speaker's notes |
* Numbers refer to chapters in The Speaker's Handbook, Eighth Edition.