Course curriculum

    1. Syllabus

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    1. 1.1 Free Speech and Its Limits: The First Amendment, Hate Speech, and Defamation

    2. Quiz 1.1

    3. 1.2 Ethical Speaking: Honesty, Plagiarism, Ethnocentrism, and Civility

    4. Quiz 1.2

    5. 1.3 Models of Communication: Rhetoric, the Five Canons, Noise, Feedback, and Apprehension

    6. Quiz 1.3

    7. 1.3 Interactive Lab: Label the Speech Situation

    8. 1.4 Communication Apprehension: Understanding and Managing Speech Anxiety

    9. Quiz 1.4

    1. 2.1 Audience Analysis: Demographic, Psychological, and Situational

    2. Quiz 2.1

    3. 2.2 Attitudes, Beliefs, Values, and Opinions: What Audiences Bring

    4. Quiz 2.2

    5. 2.3 Audience Adaptation: Reading Feedback Before, During, and After the Speech

    6. Quiz 2.3

    7. 2.4 Speaker Credibility: Initial, Derived, and Terminal Credibility

    8. Quiz 2.4

    9. 2.5 Audience Effect: Matching, Social Exchange, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Primacy, Recency, and Inoculation

    10. Quiz 2.5

    1. 3.1 Choosing a Topic: Occasion, Brainstorming, Mind Mapping, and Narrowing

    2. Quiz 3.1

    3. 3.2 General and Specific Purposes: Informative, Persuasive, Entertaining, and Special Occasion Speeches

    4. Quiz 3.2

    5. 3.2 Interactive Lab: From Topic to Specific Purpose

    6. 3.3 The Central Idea and Propositions: Fact, Value, and Policy

    7. Quiz 3.3

    1. 4.1 Main Points and Subpoints: Coordination and Subordination

    2. Quiz 4.1

    3. 4.2 Organizational Patterns I: Chronological, Spatial, Causal, and Topical

    4. Quiz 4.2

    5. 4.3 Organizational Patterns II: Problem-Solution, Motivated Sequence, Comparative Advantage, and Refutation

    6. Quiz 4.3

    7. 4.3 Interactive Lab: Arrange the Persuasive Patterns

    8. 4.4 Transitions: Signposts, Internal Previews, and Internal Summaries

    9. Quiz 4.4

    10. 4.5 Speech Outlines: Full-Sentence and Speaking Outlines

    11. Quiz 4.5

    1. 5.1 Introductions: The Hook, Startling Statements, and Previewing Main Points

    2. Quiz 5.1

    3. 5.2 Conclusions: Final Summary, Call to Action, and Bookend Endings

    4. Quiz 5.2

    5. 5.3 Putting It Together: Evaluating Whole-Speech Structure

    6. Quiz 5.3

    7. 5.3 Interactive Lab: Diagnose the Outline

    8. 5.4 Choosing the Right Pattern: Matching Organization to Purpose and Audience

    9. Quiz 5.4

    10. 5.4 Interactive Lab: Pick the Pattern

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