1. Session 1: The Speaking Situation
ECUST—CDEN
Workshop for Debate and
Public Speaking Teachers
June 3-5, 2016
Session 1: The Speaking Situation

2. Welcome & Introduction
Cindy Richards, Ph.D. Associate Professor Willamette University Paul McKean, M.A. Instructor University of Illinois

3. Participant Introduction
Please introduce yourself. Why do you think it’s valuable to teach public speaking, or why did you decide to attend the public speaking workshop?

4. Workshop Overview
Enhance expertise by sharing best practices for teaching public speaking.
Essential principles for public speaking
Effective classroom exercises and activities
Developing assignments, evaluations, syllabi
Sharing resources

5. Workshop Sessions Understanding and Engaging the Situation
Understanding and Engaging the Audience
Building Arguments and Evidence
Speech Organization and Delivery
Developing Assignments and Evaluations
Building and Sharing Resources for Teaching Public Speaking

6. Understanding and Engaging the Speaking Situation
What speaking situations are our students likely to engage?
What understanding and skills do our students need to develop in order to speak effectively in those situations?

7. Speaking Situation
Argument (message) Context Audience Speaker

8. Common Speaking Situations
Epideictic (Ceremonial) Speech
Purpose is to praise or blame a topic, to strengthen community and shared values
Examples: Wedding speech, graduation speech, speech that argues teaching public speaking is important because it builds cultural understanding.

9. Common Speaking Situations
Informative Speech
Purpose is to educate, develop understanding
Descriptive speech: Creates an accurate mental picture in the mind of an audience regarding a specific person, place, thing, or event. Example: Differences between Salem and Shanghai.
Demonstrative speech: Describes how to perform an action. Example: How to build a birdhouse.
Explanatory speech: Explains a topic. Example: The causes of climate change.

10. Common Speaking Situations
Persuasive Speech
Purpose is to change an attitude, belief, or behavior. A persuasive speech may advocate a specific solution to a problem.
Examples:
The United States must act now to address the problem of climate change.
[Problem-Solution] To address climate change, the United States should change its energy policy.

11. Common Speaking Situations
Examples of situations your students will engage, in these categories?
Epideictic (Ceremonial) Speech
Purpose is to praise or blame a topic, to strengthen community and shared values
Informative Speech
Purpose is to educate, develop understanding
Persuasive Speech
Purpose is to change an attitude, belief, or behavior

12. Activity: Adapt Topic to Situation
What would you say about the topic in each situation? Write 1 sentence that expresses your main idea.
Topic: Basketball
Epideictic (Ceremonial) Speech: Basketball is an excellent sport because it builds teamwork.
Informative Speech
Descriptive: What it’s like to play in the NBA.
Demonstrative: How to shoot a basketball.
Explanatory: International and NBA basketball games differ in three important ways.
Persuasive Speech: Yao Ming should be admitted to the NBA Hall of Fame.

13. Class Activity: Adapt the Topic to the Situation
What would you say about the topic in each situation? Write 1 sentence that expresses your main idea.
Topic: China and the United States
Epideictic/Ceremonial [praise or blame to communicate values, strengthen community]
Informational [to educate, inform]
Descriptive
Demonstrative
Explanatory
3. Persuasive [to change attitude or behavior]