advanced_communication

Cooper, Pamela J., and Cheri J. Simonds. 2003. Communication for the Classroom Teacher. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Advanced communication courses are upper-level courses that emphasize written, oral, visual, and electronic communication. These courses are the responsibility of the Advanced Communication Committee in the Department of English.

What are Advanced Communication Courses?

Advanced communication courses are upper-level courses that emphasize written, oral, visual, and electronic communication, which include but are not limited to English 213, 302, 309, 313, 314, 413, 415,and 416.

What is the Advanced Communication Committee?

MEMO

To: English 302 Students
From: Chris Nelson, Course Lecturer
Date: [TBA]
Subject: Project 9: Providing Effective Oral Presentations

MEMO

To: English 302 Students
From: Chris Nelson, Course Lecturer
Date: 1 February, 2007
Subject: Project 3: Job Talk Project Description and Information Sheet

For all our attention to résumés and cover letters, we realize that they serve one major purpose: Getting an interview. The interview is the most important part of the job hunt, because it is your opportunity to find out whether the job and organization is right for you, and serves as an opportunity for potential employers to assess if you are right for them.

Task

MEMO

To: English 302 Students
From: Chris Nelson, Course Lecturer
Date: 11 January, 2007
Subject: Style Oral Presentation Requirements

A source of information that you may not have considered is one mouse click away and may be one of the most valuable ways for you to gather facts and opinions about the issue you’ve chosen to explore. What is that source? Radio programs archived on the Web.

Whereas in the past, radio broadcasts were ephemeral—or at least the tapes of them were not widely available outside the company that put them on the airwaves—we can now easily access radio programs over the Internet in audio archives that allow free downloading of files.

Because successful communication depends on collaborative efforts between communicator and audience, your role as an audience for the poster presentations is as important as your role as speaker. Consider these three components of the audience role:

Objectives

To create an opportunity for students to experiment with strategies for audience adaptation. To give students a chance to feel the discomfort associated with being listeners to a speech that was prepared with an audience different from the actual audience in mind.

Approximate Time

Fifteen minutes of assignment explanation and planning at least one week prior to the speeches and then one seventy-five minute class session or one and a half or two fifty minute sessions to listen to and to process the speeches

Material Needed

Delivery

Vocal delivery

• Pitch
• Inflection
• Volume
• Variation
• Pace

Body language

• Gestures
• Posture
• Stance
• Facial expression

Eye contact

Organization

• Introduction, body, conclusion
• Transitions

Sample Activities on Oral Presentation Techniques

Introducing oral presentation techniques

General information about the portfolio and its evaluation

• Earning “credit” on all 6 major compositions is required to meet the basic standards of English 105 and make a student eligible to earn a passing grade for the semester. Also, each composition must first earn “credit” before it can be revised as one of your portfolio presentation pieces to be graded.