Homework Assignments:

1. Revisit all class notes.

2. Read and highlight textbook Chapter 3 "Easy Speech Organization Through Outlining" pages 33-39.

3. Look at sample outlines on pages 40-43.

4. Do the First Outlining Exercise, subsections "a" and "b" on page 44.

5. Do the Third Outlining Exercise on page 47.

6. Take You Ought to Know By Now sample review quiz #3.

Graded Homework Assignments:
The following graded homework assignments must be submitted via email. The email address is srginley@yahoo.com. Submit only the number of the question and your answer in the body of your email message. ATTACHMENTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

Due Sunday, February 15, 6:30 p.m.

1. Go to the Week #4 Discussion Forum and answer the following questions: “Under what circumstances have you already spoken of front of groups of people? How many people were there? What was your presentation about? How well did your presentation go? Are you currently called upon to speak in front of groups of people? Which groups? Why? What has been your reaction to speaking in front of groups of people? Did you enjoy it? Why or why not?” Please post your responses as new messages. This will give us more threads and make it easier to see who posted the original message.

2. Post any outlining questions you have as new messages either in your Speech class group’s private Discussion Forum or in the “Ask Steven Ginley” forum.

Due Wednesday, February 18, 6:30 p.m.

1. Post your Persuasive Speech outline rough draft in your Speech class group’s private Discussion Forum. Please title your message Persuasive Speech Outline Rough Draft. This ought to make it easier for all of us to find this week's messages. You'll need to use the space bar to indent your outline.

2. Revisit the “Week #4 Topic” Discussion Forum and write two or three sentences reacting to at least two of your classmates’ original postings. Please post your reactions as replies to your classmates' original postings.

3. Take Quiz #3.

Due Wednesday, April 7, 6:30 p.m.:

Answer You Ought To Know By Now review questions #99-109 on pages 167 and 168. Do not email me your answers. I'll check all Midterm Review Question answers during the Wednesday, April 7, class session. You may check your answers in the You Ought to Know By Now review section.

Links to Additional Materials:

What's Wrong? (exercise) What’s Wrong? shows a series of organizational patterns and main points containing outlining errors. Look at the examples and see if you can determine what’s wrong?

What's Wrong? (answers) Look here if you couldn’t see what was wrong in one of the examples.

If you’re interested in more outlining information you might visit the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL). Don’t worry about “parallelism” in your outline. We aren’t that particular.

Putting Theory Into Practice

Once you’ve tried the 1st Outline Exercises subsections “a” and “b” on page 44 of our textbook click First Outlining Exercise Subsections a & b (solution) to check your solution.

The 3rd Outline Exercise, on page 47 of the textbook, contains just about every outlining error I’ve seen in over 20 years of teaching speech. Once you’ve done the 3rd Outline Exercise click the Third Outlining Exercise (solution) to see how the outline should look and check the Third Outlining Exercise (explanation of errors) if you’re not sure why some of the corrections were made as they were.

Study Break:

As much as people say they don’t enjoy public speaking, many people don’t know when to sit down and shut up once they start giving their speech. If you’ve ever had to listen to a speaker who didn’t know when to quit, you’ll be able to identify with the comments made in What the World has Said About the Long-winded - Two Good Reasons to Keep Your Speech Within the Time Limits