Process Speech Assignment---500 words

PROCESS SPEECH ASSIGNMENT

TIME LIMIT: 3-5 Minutes

OBJECTIVES:

· To increase the audience’s knowledge or understanding of a specific process so that they are enabled to describe, explain, or perform the procedure.

· To demonstrate using VISUAL AIDS how a process is completed or how a procedure works.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Your first formal speech is designed to help you develop and practice public speaking skills. Choose a topic that you know a lot about, have enthusiasm for, and can make interesting to a college audience (both men and women). Choose a visual aid(s) that demonstrates or clarifies your process and is large enough to be seen by everyone. Examples of topics include: How to Properly Dive off a Diving Board, How to Make a Christmas Wreath, How to Drive a 5 Speed, How to Paint a Model Rocket, How to Make an Adirondack Chair, How to Drive a Golf Ball, How to Hang Wallpaper, How to Buy a Good Pair of Athletic Shoes, How a Guitar Produces Music, How a Jet Engine Works, How to Take Pictures Like a Professional Photographer, or How to Repair a Leaky Faucet.

Topic approval: Required; post your choice of topic to the discussion board area for Session 5, along with 2-3 alternatives just in case the first isn’t approved, to the forum for Session 5. However, only “flesh out” your first choice with the specific purpose statement, introduction, etc. Just list 2-3 alternatives after that, labelled: ALTERNATIVES.

As for speech topics, each speech must be on a completely different topic from the previous speeches. For example, for your Current Event speech, you may choose an article about basketball. For the Leisure Speech, you cannot then choose basketball as part of your speech, or how basketball works for your Informative speech, and so on.

Topics which are not approved will have a 50% deduction in the final grade for the speech.

Topics which cannot be chosen as they were recently already chosen by others:

Health

How to check blood pressure

How sleep works

How to lose weight

How to care less about what people think

Food

How to make a smoothie

How to bake a Japanese cotton cheesecake

How to make Chinese dumplings

How to make stuffed feta and spinach salmon

How to make s’mores using a fire pit

How to make puppy chow

How to make pizzelles

How to make nougat

How to make brownies

How to make bean tacos 

How to make Oreo balls

How to make Japanese curry rice

How to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich

How to make a grilled cheese sandwich

Hobbies and Activities

How to make a good instagram picture/take pictures

How to make successful travel plans

How to make a satchel

How to contour makeup

How to enjoy camping

Car maintenance at home, including oil, tires, and brakes

How to toss a sabre in color guard

How to make a balloon animal

How to tune a piano

Sports

How to train professionally

How to play tennis

How to play basketball

How to do push-ups

Work

How to empower employees

How to harvest corn

How to be a good babysitter

How to prepare for interviews

If one of these topics is chosen, you will only earn 50% of your original score.

REQUIREMENTS & EVALUATIONA CRITERIA:

· You must have an audience of at least 6 people over the age of 16, including your camera operator. You should slowly pan your audience before you begin your speech and have the camera operator visible from waist up, as well (they can simply walk in front of the camera before you begin your speech). Make sure there is sufficient light to see each person clearly. They do not need to state their name. Begin your speech without stopping or splicing the video, then pan the audience in the same way again at the conclusion of your speech. Failure to have less than the required 6 audience members clearly visible, with a slow pan of the audience/camera operator, will result in failing the assignment.

· Your visual aid must be an integral & important part of your speech, meaning it is something that you are using throughout your speech, ideally as you are demonstrating how to do your process. If you do not use an actual object(s), then use a poster board or foam board large enough to see the content on it, or PowerPoint that is easy to see during speech; you may need more than one board in order to have content large enough to see. Listing your main points on the first side of the first board, along with a large picture, can be very powerful and can help you make sure to state your internal preview. Use dark ink on a light background and add pictures to make it interesting. If the content on the visual aid is too small to see clearly, then no points will be awarded for a visual aid. Holding up a piece of paper is not considered a visual aid for this speech, nor is showing a picture on your phone. Pictures must be LARGE and mounted to an actual foam board or poster board. Practice with your visual aid ahead of time so it will fit smoothly into your presentation. See Chapter 13 for types of visual aids you can use and for more information about them and how to present with them.

· Remember that you are delivering a speech, not creating a “how to” video you might post on YouTube – therefore your speech should be recorded at one time, as a presentation, with you standing before an audience using your visual aids and completed within the 3-5 minute time limit.

If your process typically takes longer than 3-5 minutes (e.g. cooking/baking something, making a flower arrangement, creating some craft project, or changing the oil in your vehicle) then you should complete the process ahead of time, taking pictures while you do it, and then create a power point presentation (or other means of effectively displaying photos) to show your audience members while you deliver your speech.

Watch a cooking show as you prepare your presentation and notice how they have everything ready to go ahead of time and they often have the dish staged at multiple various points of the process BEFORE they begin. Whether you are cooking something, or creating a paper flower, or changing a tire, you should do the same thing before you actually deliver your speech to your audience.

· Your speech should be effectively organized, outlined, introduced and concluded.

· Your preparation outline must be prepared and typed following formal outline format (see the 10 Rules for Outlining and sample Preparation Outline and Speaking Outline in Session 5 “Learning Activities” and in the “Resources” button of our Blackboard course). You may request your instructor to review a draft copy of your outline ahead of time (allow five days for review, so you need to submit it early in the week).

· Your speech must be delivered extemporaneously (conversationally) from notes. Do NOT prepare a speech manuscript (i.e. write out your speech verbatim); do NOT memorize a manuscript. Remember that the purpose of your Speaking Outline is to remind you of what you want to say. These can be either note cards (use size 4”x6”) or a half sheet of paper. It should be clear, concise, brief, and easy to see, so that you can glance down at it, remind yourself of what you want to say, and then look back up at your audience while you speak to them. For these purposes the camera is part of your audience as it is your instructor and peers, along with your actual audience.

· Attach both your Preparation Outline and Speaking Outline to the assignment in Connect. After you submit the video, there is a place to attach documents. Browse your computer to find your Preparation Outline, then click on <+ add additional files> and browse again to attach your Speaking Outline. In order for your speech to count as “on time” you must submit both your Preparation Outline and your Speaking Outline at the time you submit your video and by the due date on the calendar. Label each outline properly both within the document and as the title of the document, along with your first and last names. So, the titles of your outlines (save your documents with these titles) will be “Process Speech Preparation Outline – YOUR FIRST AND LAST NAME)

· Rehearse your speech thoroughly with your items or visual aid. Practice your speech in front of a mirror or friends to increase eye-contact, enthusiasm, sincerity and conversational delivery. Check the timing to know what will fit in the 3-5 minute time limit and make cuts as necessary. Do NOT splice together several segments of video.

· After you submit your speech video, you should watch your video again, and complete the self-evaluation on Connect. This counts as part of your speech grade. If you see a problem with the video, notify your instructor immediately so it can be reset by the deadline (remember, you need to give your instructor at least 36 hours to respond to an e-mail, then your instructor will need time to reset the speech, and you will need time to upload it by the deadline; uploading takes time. It is recommended that you upload your speech initially at least 3 full days before the due date (5 is recommended) in order to allow enough time for a reply, reset, and re-uploaded speech before the deadline.

· This assignment is worth a possible _100_ points. Evaluation criteria include: Introduction, Organization & Use of Transitions, Content Development, Use of Visual Aids, Conclusion, Extemporaneous & Conversational Delivery, Overall Time Limit, Audience-centeredness, and Outlines.

CHECKLIST OF ITEMS DUE:

___ Visual aid (shown during speech, not submitted through Connect)

___ Preparation outline submitted through Connect

___ Speaking outline submitted through Connect (for note cards, just send pictures/scanned

documents of them)

Process Speech – Grading Rubric

Each line is 0-5 points, 100 points total possible.

SPEECH OUTLINE & PREPARATION - 15% POINTS

___ Preparation Outline completed (sections labeled, indented, full sentences, transitions)

___ Speaking Outline completed (brief notes, clear)

___ Chose challenging speech topic & adapted it to audience

INTRODUCTION – 15% POINTS

___ Gained interest of audience (captured attention for topic & motivated audience to listen)

___ Established your credibility (explained why & how you know about topic)

___ Fully Introduced Topic (clear central idea or preview of main points in order)

BODY (Organization, Development, & Transitions) – 25% POINTS

___ Main points easily identified (manageable number of main points)

___ Effective organizational pattern (ideas arranged logically)

___ Each main point developed with sufficient details

___ Clear explanation of process or activity (points were easy to follow)

___ Smooth connectives between main points (used sign posts and full transitions)

USE OF VISUAL AIDS – 10% POINTS

___ Effective use of visual aids (visible, neat, interesting, effective timing, passed around only at end)

___ Visual aid enhanced presentation (integral and important part of speech)

PRESENTATION & DELIVERY – 20% POINTS

___ Strong eye contact sustained throughout

___ Extemporaneous delivery (sounded conversational, used vocal variety, appropriate rate, projected voice so all could hear, paused effectively with few uhms)

___ Expressive & used language effectively (sounded sincere, enthusiastic or passionate, used language free of slang and profanity)

___ Effective facial expression, gestures & animation (used appropriate movement – not stiff or pacing, avoided distractions, little or no swaying, used natural hand gestures)

CONCLUSION – 10% POINTS

___ Signaled ending (used a signpost) & summarized main points (restated each main point)

___ Used vivid & memorable ending (usually in the form of a story or quotation)

TIMING & AUDIENCE – 5% POINTS

___ Fulfilled time requirement (3-5 minutes, within 30 seconds over or under)

___ PASS/FAIL – Showed audience of 6 adults before and after speech without splicing video (failure to do so will result in an F for the presentation)

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