SPCH 1315: Clark Spring '25: Your SPCH 1315 Assignment!

Build-a-Speech Informative Speech Instructions

Topic: “A Favorite Demonstration: How to Do/Make Something”:

Consider your interests and experiences, as well as those of the audience, as they relate to a favorite object, process, or concept.

Overall Assignment:

To develop your skills in brainstorming, focusing and narrowing a topic, and researching, organizing, developing, and presenting a speech, your crowning achievement will be this semester-long assignment, where you will consider informative speech topics beyond place and event to develop your ideas about your favorite object, process, or concept.
Here, you will work with your team create and then submit Draft #1 (2%) of your Topic Proposal, get feedback from them and your professor, and then submit Draft #2 (2%). You will then research, develop, and submit a full-sentence outline (5%) using at least four cited sources and a necessary and explanatory deck of PowerPoint slides to use in class as you present (7%).

For this assignment, you have more time for feedback and development but will also have more expected of you, as you’ll already have experience with and polish components of excellent informative speaking.

Sources:
Both your speech and your outline (in the flow of the text as well as in the brief bibliography) should include at least FOUR outside sources, which provide credible and appropriate support for your point of view:

• One source should be used for a quotation or statistic in the Attention-Getter.  
• For the other three sources, you must obtain at least TWO through ACC’s library databases, and these must also exist in print form, as in a periodical (a magazine, newspaper, or academic journal) or a book.  
• The other source may be from a periodical, a personal interview, or a website that DOES NOT have an encyclopedia or dictionary format (e.g., no Wiki sites) and that are OUTSIDE the accountability of the location or event you are covering (e.g., no Disneyworld.com when noting ticket prices or giving their “reviews” of their location).

MLA Citation:

Submit full-sentence outline with MLA Works Cited sources including cited words in context in class by due date (no Presentations without Outlines!)
 

Slidedeck:

To improve your audience’s understanding and appreciation of your presentation, you will create PowerPoint slides here with necessary and explanatory text and images.  In particular, you will use key words (NO FULL SENTENCES!) and images that succinctly help the listeners through the steps of your presentation.