Book: Devito, J.A. (2020) Essentialsof Human Communication 10th edition Part 3 chapter 11 & part 3 chapter 12 Description: For this assignment, you will prepare and write a delivery outline for a persuasive or informational speech. Objectives: Engage in the first six steps of preparing a speech, including selecting a topic, analyzing your audience, researching your topic, collecting supporting materials, developing main points, and organizing your speech materials. Practice speech preparation steps seven though nine which are wording a speech, constructing a conclusion and introduction, and rehearsing your speech. Instructions: Review the steps for preparing and delivering an effective speech that you explored in the textbook and in the learning activities. Prepare a three to four page sentence outline on a topic of your choice. (Your topic can be persuasive or informational.) Use the following checklist to ensure that your speech is effective: Choose a topic that is relevant and interesting to your audience, with a clear purpose. Ensure that you adequately research your topic. Include an introduction in your outline that gains attention and orients the audience. Be sure that your speech is clear, vivid, appropriate, well-organized, and powerful. Be sure that each main point is supported adequately. Create a speech with personal style by asking direct questions and creating immediacy. Be sure that your conclusion summarizes your thesis and provides closure. Assignment Submission: The use of outside resources is strongly recommended, and all speeches must be cited using current APA 7 format. Rubric Speech Assignment Rubric (2) Criteria Ratings Pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAssignment Ideas 10 pts Ideas are clear, insightful, thought-provoking, and focused so that they consistently support the topic, thesis and audience for the speech. 8.5 pts Ideas are clear and focused to support the topic and a clearly-stated central idea, but are not consistently insightful or thought-provoking. 7 pts Ideas are clear but conventional or general, and support the topic, thesis, and audience for the speech. 2.5 pts Ideas are unclear or clichéd and demonstrate a lack of focus in support of the topic or a central idea, which may be vague or missing. 10 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAssignment Development 10 pts Development is fresh, with abundant details and examples that arouse audience interest and provide relevant, concrete, specific and insightful evidence in support of sound logic. 8.5 pts Development is adequate, but may lack depth, with details and examples that arouse audience interest and provide relevant, concrete, specific evidence in support of sound logic. 7 pts Development is sufficient but general, providing adequate but perhaps not interesting details, examples, and evidence that include no logical fallacies or unsupported claims. 2.5 pts Development is insufficient, providing scarce or inappropriate details, evidence, and examples that may include logical fallacies or unsupported claims. 10 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeOrganization 10 pts Organization is coherent, unified and effective in support of the speech’s purpose/ plan and consistently demonstrates effective and appropriate rhetorical transitions between ideas and paragraphs. 8.5 pts Organization is coherent, unified and effective in support of the speech’s purpose/ plan and usually demonstrates effective and appropriate rhetorical transitions between ideas and paragraphs 7 pts Organization is coherent and unified overall in support of the essay’s purpose/ plan, but is ineffective at times and may demonstrate abrupt or weak transitions between ideas or paragraphs. 2.5 pts Organization is confused and fragmented in support of the essay’s purpose/ plan and demonstrates a lack of structure or coherence that negatively affects readability. 10 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeStyle & Mechanics 10 pts Readable and rhetorically effective in tone, incorporating varied sentence structure, precise word choice and correct grammar, spelling and punctuation. (Mastery of style) 8.5 pts Style is readable and rhetorically effective in tone, incorporating varied sentence structure, effective word choice, and correct grammar, spelling and punctuation. (Effective style) 7 pts Style is readable, but unremarkable in tone, sometimes including a lack of sentence variety effective word choice, or some distracting, but not serious, errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation. (Readable but inconsistent style) 2.5 pts Style is incoherent or inappropriate in tone, including a lack of sentence variety, ineffective or inappropriate word choice, and serious errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation. (Ineffective style) 10 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeFormat 10 pts Format is correct, meets all assignment directions, and works expertly to support the speech’s purpose/plan. 8.5 pts Format is correct, meets all assignment directions, and works generally to support the speech’s purpose/plan. 7 pts Format is mostly correct, meets critical aspects of assignment directions, and works mostly to support the speech’s purpose/ plan. 2.5 pts Format is faulty, does not meet sufficient aspects of the assignment direction, and does not support the speech’s purpose/ plan. 10 pts Total Points: 50 Tags: unhealthy food junk foods banning junk gullible children healthy lifestyles User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following Studypool’s honor code & terms of service.
Reference List: Basic Rules
Note: This page reflects the latest version of the APA Publication Manual (i.e., APA 7), which released in October 2019. The equivalent resource for the older APA 6 style can be found here.
This resource, revised according to the 7th edition APA Publication Manual, provides fundamental guidelines for constructing the reference pages of research papers. For more information, please consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, (7th ed.).
Note: Because the information on this page pertains to virtually all citations, we’ve highlighted one important difference between APA 6 and APA 7 with an underlined note written in red.
Formatting a Reference List
Your reference list should appear at the end of your paper. It provides the information necessary for a reader to locate and retrieve any source you cite in the body of the paper. Each source you cite in the paper must appear in your reference list; likewise, each entry in the reference list must be cited in your text.
Your references should begin on a new page separate from the text of the essay; label this page “References” in bold, centered at the top of the page (do NOT underline or use quotation marks for the title). All text should be double-spaced just like the rest of your essay.
Basic Rules for Most Sources
- All lines after the first line of each entry in your reference list should be indented one-half inch from the left margin. This is called hanging indentation.
- All authors’ names should be inverted (i.e., last names should be provided first).
- Authors’ first and middle names should be written as initials.
- For example, the reference entry for a source written by Jane Marie Smith would begin with “Smith, J. M.”
- If a middle name isn’t available, just initialize the author’s first name: “Smith, J.”
- Give the last name and first/middle initials for all authors of a particular work up to and including 20 authors (this is a new rule, as APA 6 only required the first six authors). Separate each author’s initials from the next author in the list with a comma. Use an ampersand (&) before the last author’s name. If there are 21 or more authors, use an ellipsis (but no ampersand) after the 19th author, and then add the final author’s name.
- Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last name of the first author of each work.
- For multiple articles by the same author, or authors listed in the same order, list the entries in chronological order, from earliest to most recent.
- When referring to the titles of books, chapters, articles, reports, webpages, or other sources, capitalize only the first letter of the first word of the title and subtitle, the first word after a colon or a dash in the title, and proper nouns.
- Note again that the titles of academic journals are subject to special rules. See section below.
- Italicize titles of longer works (e.g., books, edited collections, names of newspapers, and so on).
- Do not italicize, underline, or put quotes around the titles of shorter works such as chapters in books or essays in edited collections.
Basic Rules for Articles in Academic Journals
- Present journal titles in full.
- Italicize journal titles.
- Maintain any nonstandard punctuation and capitalization that is used by the journal in its title.
- For example, you should use PhiloSOPHIA instead of Philosophia, or Past & Present instead of Past and Present.
- Capitalize all major words in the titles of journals. Note that this differs from the rule for titling other common sources (like books, reports, webpages, and so on) described above.
- This distinction is based on the type of source being cited. Academic journal titles have all major words capitalized, while other sources’ titles do not.
- Capitalize the first word of the titles and subtitles of journal articles, as well as the first word after a colon or a dash in the title, and any proper nouns.
- Do not italicize or underline the article title.
- Do not enclose the article title in quotes.
- So, for example, if you need to cite an article titled “Deep Blue: The Mysteries of the Marianas Trench” that was published in the journal Oceanographic Study: A Peer-Reviewed Publication, you would write the article title as follows:
- Deep blue: The mysteries of the Marianas Trench.
- …but you would write the journal title as follows:
- Oceanographic Study: A Peer-Reviewed Publication
- So, for example, if you need to cite an article titled “Deep Blue: The Mysteries of the Marianas Trench” that was published in the journal Oceanographic Study: A Peer-Reviewed Publication, you would write the article title as follows:
Please note: While the APA manual provides examples of how to cite common types of sources, it does not cover all conceivable sources. If you must cite a source that APA does not address, the APA suggests finding an example that is similar to your source and using that format. For more information, see page 282 of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th ed.
