We discussed the second and final speech of the class, which is the persuasive speech. The instructor urged students to choose their topics soon. Three sources should be attained each week for this speech and there needs to be a total of 8-10 sources. We did some topic selection, the results of which are posted on the persuasive topics link.
She showed students where the Monroe Motivated Sequence is and asked them to read the outline. We will be working with the outline over the coming weeks.
Students were given 30" to research new topics at the library. Meanwhile, the instructor reviewed the informative speech outlines. She returned them with comments when students returned from the library exercise.
During the final part of the class, we reviewed nonverbal communication terms such as haptics, illustrators, etc. The instructor showed students a field trip form and it will be posted in the links section soon. We looked up the terms in our textbook and then we watched a recording which featured each of the terms.
Next week students will be delivering informative speeches.
To Do for Next Week:
Practice informative speech
Get instructor feedback on outline (if you have not already received it)
Read Ch. 12 on persuasive speaking
Read Monroe Motivated sequence outline
Obtain three sources for the persuasive speech and bring them to class for credit
Download nonverbal communication observation form. Do field trip sometime before April 29
