Timeslice

Students choose one of the following five topics and come prepared on the day. Please provide the topics to your students in advance:
1. Government-funded scholarships don’t create a truly free educational market.
2. Who has the right to define terrorism?
3. Inter-party defections in parliamentary democracy: are they [...]

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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 [...]

Only 3 more classes guys!!! please attend all remaining classes.
I will grade your speeches in the remaining classes. So please attend all classes.
Remaining classes are on 9 sept/ 16 sept/ 23 sept 2008, ADM TR8, 5pm

Technical Speech
A technical speech is a speech where it is given with a particular focused on a specific field/occupation/study
An example: an engineering technical speech may only be understood by engineers, but people in the accounting field, for example, may not be able to follow to well on the engin speech. Vice versa when it comes [...]

Some examples of technical speeches:
Example no.1: social engineering
Example no.2: Accounting reporting standards

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Updated on Aug 27, 2008
Only 3 more classes guys!!! please attend all remaining classes.
I will grade your speeches in the remaining classes. So please attend all classes.
Remaining classes are on 9 sept/ 16 sept/ 23 sept 2008, ADM TR8, 5pm
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Updated on [...]