Public Speaking 101: How to Give a Great Speech
What you'll learn
- The Seven Step Plan you need to give a great speech for business & personal presentations.
- The complete speech making process and how to deliver a good speech by using your voice and body language.
- How to deal with your fear and stage fright (hint: do you like movies?)
- The four things you must do in the introduction of your speech.
- Effective ways to conclude your speech.
- Organizational patterns and how to signpost in the body of your speech.
- How to avoid logical fallacies in constructing arguments.
- How to deliver special occasion speeches and presentations.
Requirements
- Anyone can take this course; no prior knowledge of speech making is needed.
- Be prepared to watch well produced audio/visual lectures.
- Do discussion questions and occasional quizes.
- View both good and bad sample speeches for evaluation.
Description
Public Speaking 101: How to Give a Great Speech.
This course emphasizes the strategies for planning, developing, and delivering oral presentations. You learn the "Seven Step Speech Plan" so you can give a great speech for business & other presentations. This is a human performance course designed to improve oral communication skills in public speaking, group process, and interpersonal situations. It is designed to introduce students to principles of effective public speaking, implemented through the design and presentation of individual speeches. Communication theory will be presented and practice will be provided with audience analysis, organizational strategies, critical listening and thinking, and use of good sources and evidence in the preparation and delivery of informative and persuasive speeches and analysis of interpersonal relationships. Writing speeches for delivery in political, professional, and ceremonial settings is covered. Opportunities to apply what the student is learning are provided. By evaluating speeches, especially ones that need improvement, students are given ample opportunity to demonstrate what they've learned at the end of the course. As a professor at five colleges and universities in the United States, I'm happy to provide you my experience of 28 years of teaching by offering you this course.
In taking this course, the successful student will:
Learn the complete speech making process.
Develop his/her ability to select topics and deliver speeches according to the occasion, the audience, and the speaker.
Demonstrate ability to research information & evaluate evidence.
Exhibit increased self-confidence in public and interpersonal communication situations by reducing speech anxiety.
Show expanded facility in constructing arguments.
Demonstrate proficiency with the elements of oral style and effective delivery.
Apply fundamentals of listening.
Assess different types of audiences and learn how to analyze such audiences.
Utilize wording, style, argument, and delivery to connect with audience members.
Public Speaking 101: How to Give a Great Speech.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone interested in learning the speechmaking process, including how to cope with the fear of public speaking.
Instructor
![Dale Ingham](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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Dale has a unique educational background and experience in the field of communications. He has worked in radio as an on-air news director and disc jockey, a videographer for a weekly local television program, has produced commercials for cable-TV. His own state-of-the-art, video/film production company produced his first feature, the romantic-thriller, Seduction of Innocence, in the 1990s.
As professor of communication, Dale has been teaching since October 1993; he teaches courses at several colleges and universities, including public speaking, art of film, and writing courses.
Dale enjoys fine dining, sporting events—especially baseball—thoroughbred horse racing, driving his Mustang convertible, attending musical theater, and of course, movies.
Dale is included in the 2001 edition of Marquis Who’s Who in the World. He is honored to have been recognized by his peers and students by receiving several teaching honors and awards.