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Date: 11th October 2008
Day: Saturday
Time: 9:00 am
Venue: Experimental Hall
Final assessment will carry 20% marks. Be there, or be square… muahahahaha

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Development of matter in a speech.

Your end objective in a speech must be easily ascertained before you give a speech
Audience must be able to know WHY you are speaking in the first place
You must establish a case, and substantiate that case with arguments

Difference between a case and an argument:
A case is a ’statement’ to which [...]

Rules & Regulation on the assigned speeches:

Each person is alloted 5 mins only. Do not speak below 3 mins, do not go above 5 mins
Topics are not changeable
Follow the instuctions provided in the class notes
Choose easier arguments. Arguments which you personally believe in
Remember the basic manners +if possible, add advance manners like pauses in your [...]

No.1: Change of class time/venue during month of Ramadhan
No.2: Feedback on last week’s test
No.3: Class notes for Aug27
No.4: Speech assignments
Notice no.1: during the month of Ramadhan, class time is now Mondays at 5pm-6.30pm. Venue shall be determined later.
There shall be 3 more classes to go: 8 sept/ 15 sept/ 22 sept. Make sure you attend [...]

Next Class Assignment (week 4)
Descriptive Speech (with an add of flavor: choose a personality)
A descriptive speech is a speech where you need to describe something. (ie: how to make a boat, or how to organize a sports day etc.)
When you deliver these speeches, you need to take a personality, ie be somebody else who possess [...]

Matter, Manner, Method
This week, we’ll be discussing the 3 M’s associated with the public speaking phenomenon.
Matter: Means the contents, facts, statements in your speech. It addresses the “reason why you are speaking”. Example of matter includes topics, arguments, case, points, rebuttals, assertions etc.
Manner: Means the style, approach, the-way you deliver your speech. It addresses the [...]

Class notes (week 2)
Remember!: In effective public speaking, there are only 3 things to remember:
1. Tell people what you want to say
2. Say it!
3. Tell people what you have said
You won’t go wrong with these steps

Class 2: 30.07.2008
Things to do:
1. Print out course outline (you need to review it from time to time in class)
2. In class 2, you need to give a speech about “introducing someone”. So prepare yourself to give about a 3-5min speech. The speech is meant to be simple: “Hi, [...]