Homework Assignments:

1. Revisit all class notes.

2. Create a synthesis of the material you don’t know well as a Test #1 Study Guide.

3. Complete Take-Home Test #1. You’ll need to turn it in to the Writing/Math Lab, Room 105D, when you take Test #1.

4. Work on the Informative and Introduce Another Speaker speeches for our April 7 class session.

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, March 28, 6:30 p.m.

1. Visit the Week #9 Evidence Discussion Forum and post a research plan containing your evidence usage strategy. Every speech main point should be supported by two different evidence types, one of which has emotional appeal as a strength. We’ve studied seven different evidence presentation methods.

1. factual examples
2. expanded factual examples (strong emotional appeal)
3. hypothetical illustrations
4. statistics
5. testimony (strong emotional appeal)
6. literal analogy
7. figurative analogy (strong emotional appeal)

You’ll have an easier time researching if you get online or go to the library with a plan in mind. Begin by stating your Informative Speech topic. Then, write examples of how you could use each of the seven evidence types in your Informative Speech. What specific pieces evidence will you be looking for when you do your research? (For an example of this assignment see page 84 in the textbook and the Evidence Exercise Solution link on the Week #7 Activities Page.)

2. Revisit the Discussion Forum and comment on your classmates’ evidence usage strategies. Read over their speech topics. Can you offer any suggestions for how your classmates can find evidence for their speeches?

Due Thursday, April 1, 6:30 p.m.

Take Test #1 in the Writing/Math Lab, Room 105D. Turn in your completed Take-Home Test #1 with your completed Test #1. You’ll need to show the Writing/Math Lab staff a photo ID to get a copy of the test.

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

1. Post your completed Introduce Another Speaker Speech (assignment sheet on page 159) in your group's private Informative Speech Discussion Forum so one of your fellow group members can practice introducing you before April 7.

2. Email me your Informative Speech visual aid plans. I'll read what you email me and offer visual aid advice.

3. You Ought to Know By Now Questions #1-200 should be completed. I’ll check them in class on April 7.

4. Informative Speech presentation.

5. Introduce Another Speaker Speech presentation.

 

Links to Additional Materials

This week's major agenda item is taking Test #1. Each of the following links deals with test taking:

These are the questions students in my six Speech classes predicted you would be unable to answer if they appeared on Test #1. Give them a try. Test #1 Stump the Classroom Questions & Answers

The University of Texas at Austin University of Texas Learning Center has a very comprehensive web page entitled Our Students Favorite Handouts covering all sorts of study skills including test-taking.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Counseling Center offers some advice for dealing with test anxiety as part of their Self-Help Brochures program.

The DALLAS TELECOLLEGE offers a page of Study Skills links. I’d suggest scrolling down Test Taking and Test Preparation item #5, Tips for Objective Tests. This is as close as I can get you without the DALLAS TELECOLLEGE’S permission. It takes four clicks to get to the Tips for Objective Tests page from the DALLAS TELECOLLEGE’S home page.

Study Break

Yogisms, the English language as only Yogi Berra can speak it. It's good for a chuckle.