Basic Public Speaking
Fall 2022
Instructor: Hung-Yi Lu
3-credit course (Sophomores)
Classroom: R225
Undergraduate-level course at the Department of Communication, National Chung Cheng University
Telephone No.: (05) 2720422#32565
E-mail Address: telhyl@ccu.edu.tw


GOALS OF THE COURSE
Basic public speaking is a 3-credit course designed to increase your understanding of the principles and processes of communicating effectively in public contexts or situations. It is also designed to facilitate development of your own oral communication competencies, specifically in:
(1) Message construction – includes identifying the clear specific statement of purpose and central idea, selection of logical and ethical strategies to help audiences make necessary connections, as well as gathering and selecting information necessary to formulate complete and coherent arguments;
(2) Audience analysis – includes the need to take the perspective of one’s audience in order to select appropriate message and delivery strategies;
(3) Message organization – includes organizing and outlining messages which will accomplish the speaker’s goals and meet the requirements of the specific assignment and situation;
(4) Message reception/critique – includes active critical listening and evaluation both as one hears other students’ presentations as well as speakers in other contexts; and
(5) Message delivery/presentation – includes the skills needed to present messages effectively through use of voice, eye contact, gestures and movement, and other aspects of adjustment.
To accomplish the aforementioned goals is difficult to do within a single semester. However, even in this relatively short time it is possible to develop a positive attitude toward communicating and to develop your own confidence in your own speaking skills. When you leave the course, you should be sufficiently armed with a basic understanding of public speaking and with an awareness of your own speaking skills (both strengths and weaknesses) so that you can continue to develop effective skills throughout your careers.

REQUIRED MATERIALS
Textbook: Locus, S. E. (2001). The art of public speaking, 8th Ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill.
安奈特˙西蒙斯（2019）。說故事的力量。台北﹕樂金文化。

IF YOU HAVE SPECIAL NEEDS
If you have a special need that may require accommodation or assistance, please let me know as soon as possible since I cannot begin to make accommodation until I know your particular needs. You need to provide documentation; then, I will work to make reasonable accommodation so your course work can be meaningful.

ATTENDANCE POLICY (10 points maximum)
I expect you to be in class each time and need to be on time. You are required to attend class whenever any student is scheduled to speak since it is important for all speakers to have a complete audience. If you miss a day when others are speaking, for each such unexcused absence, 5 points will be deducted from your course grade total.
For any day you miss, you will be allowed to make up work only if the absence is officially excused by me as your instructor (based on evidence such as a letter for any official university activity, notice from student health or a letter from physician, or other evidence requested by me). Should you be absent on your assigned speaking day, you will be allowed to make up the speech only if it is legally excused. If your absence is not excused, you will not be allowed to present this speech which means you will be unable to pass the course. If you miss class 2 times without any reasonable excuses, you will be failed.
You are responsible for contacting me regarding any absence. You must present written documentation for any university-approved activity (field trips, athletic competition, etc) in advance of the absence and for any other absence within two weeks of your return to class.
In addition, please turn off your cell phone during the class period. Any unexpected phone call will interrupt the class. It is no good if you allow it happens.

PLAGIARISM & CHEATING
I expect that all of your work in this class will always to be your own. If you have any question about whether you may be plagiarizing in your speech work, please contact me in advance of the due date. Afterward may be too late. The sanction for plagiarism and cheating is to be failed for the entire course.

SPEECH ASSIGNMNETS
There will be five graded speech assignments: a podcast work, a self-introduction, an informative speech, an emotional appeal speech, and a persuasive speech. In addition, some impromptu/practice presentations will be done during the class period without any advanced announcement.
For each of these speeches you are to speak extemporaneously – that is, you need to prepare thoroughly, but you should not memorize the speech nor read it word-for-word from a manuscript. You may use notes. You may bring in visual aids to help you make a particular point, but please check first with me to see if each aid(s) will be appropriate.
Each speech assignment has a time limit which has designed to allow all class speakers to complete the assignment on schedule and to give you practice in fitting materials into a given time allotment. The time limit is an important part of each assignment. To abuse the time limit by speaking either too long or not long enough means that your speech does not meet the requirements of the assignment. As you prepare your speech, please allow yourself enough time to practice so you can meet the time limit for each assignment.
For each speech assignment, you are expected to use topics of your choice which meet the guidelines for the specific speech assignment and, of course, topic must be legal. Your grade for each speech is assigned only by the instructor.
All graded speech assignments must be completed to pass this course.
If you have a question about your speech grade, please give yourself 24 hours before you come in to discuss it with me.

PODCAST (15 points maximum)
TIME LIMIT: 3-5MINUTES

SELF-INTRODUCTION (15 points maximum)
TIME LIMIT: 3-5MINUTES

INFORMATIVE SPEECH (15 points maximum) TIME LIMIT: 3-4 MINUTES

EMOTIONAL APPEAL SPEECH (15 points maximum)
TIME LIMIT 3-4 MINUTES

PERSUASIVE SPEECH (20 points maximum) TIME LIMIT: 3-4 MINUTES

IMPROMPUTU SPEECH (10 points maximum)

CLASS ATTENDANCE (10 points maximum)

EVALUATION CATEGORIES
(1) MESSAGE: includes topic/analysis, supporting materials, organization, and style.
(2) DELIVERY: includes adjustment, body movement, voice, and fluency.
(3) OVERALL IMPACT: This refers literally to the impact of the entire presentation. That is, it is holistic for the presentation. Because we know that the dynamics of communication are such that the individual elements don’t necessarily have the same proportional weight in each presentation, this allows us to show how the whole is affected by the elements.















































COURSE SCHEDULE

上課時間：每星期二下午1:10 – 4:00

DATE TOPIC
Week 1
9/6 An Introduction to Public Speaking

Week 2
9/13
(1) Communication Process
(2) Ethics & the Speaker-Audience Relationship
(3) Watching 3 videos
Janet (persuasive)
David Tao (informative)
Feng-Yi Sheu (emotional)
Week 3
9/20 An introduction to podcast 李佩昕老師
Week 4
9/27 Audio-Visual Elements (New Technology: Using PowerPoint, Videos and the like)
Week 5
10/04 No class 請上傳podcast作業
Week 6
10/11 Special guest
Body language (e.g., facial expressions, eye contact etc.) 劇團老師林雪江
Week 7
10/18 Dealing with anxiety
Overcoming stage fright (phobia)
(1) Topic/Audience Analysis
(2) Informative Messages
(3) Gathering Materials
(4) Organizing Message Content
Week 8
10/25 Special Guest 江明珠主播
Week 9
11/01 SELF-INTRODUCTION (1)
Week 10
11/08 SELF-INTRODUCTION (2)
Week 11
11/15 INFORMATIVE SPEECH (1)
Week 12
11/22 INFORMATIVE SPEECH (2)
Week 13
11/29 How to arouse emotional responses?
Week 14
12/06 EMOTIONAL SPEECH (1)
Week 15
12/13 EMOTIONAL SPEECH (2)
Week 16
12/20 PERSUASIVE SPEECH (1)
Week 17
12/27 PERSUASIVE SPEECH (2)