Are you often misunderstood? Do you find yourself saying, “I didn’t mean it that way!” Your meaning may be distorted because of your delivery. This assignment asks you to discover the range of delivery styles so you can access your rhetorical power. Great speakers know that their success depends upon not just what they say, but how they say it! Thanks to Tara Smoot for donating her outstanding work to our archive.
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Are you often misunderstood? Do you find yourself saying, “I didn’t mean it that way!” Your meaning may be distorted because of your delivery. This assignment asks you to discover the range of delivery styles so you can access your rhetorical power. Great speakers know that their success depends upon not just what they say, but how they say it! Thanks to Professor Dave Freeman!
Full assignment description at http://marytconway.tripod.com/publicspeaking
This is an example of the 2nd part of the Oral Interpretation speech, in which you change only the delivery (not the words), to create a different meaning from what the author intended. The original author, Dr. Seuss intended a light-hearted, engaging children’s story, while Jackson reinterprets the words as … well, you be the judge.
An excellent policy speech in which the former CCP student government president uses audience adaptation, numerical conversions, refutation of objections, and all 4 types of types of reasoning (see how many you can find)!
Part One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpBPC_E1cP8
Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cgCg4TY1IA
Part Three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOKDfGfrzTw
Welcome to Professor Mary T. Conway’s Public Speaking course! Click on the ABOUT tab for more information, and click on the video to see what great company you’ll keep in the wonderful world of rhetoric.
