Eight students from the Spring Quarter Effective Public Speaking classes are are invited to compete in the Fall Speech Meet, which will be held on Nov. 2.
All participants will be rewarded with a prize. First place being three free in-county tuition credit hours, second place being two free in-county tuition hours and third place being one free in-county tuition hour. Everyone else will be rewarded with a visa gift card.
Four speeches will be informative speeches; the other four will be persuasive.
Professor of Communication Myra Bozeman said that neither categories will compete against each other, but rather informative speeches will be compared to other informative speeches, and persuasive speeches will be compared to other persuasive speeches.
Three judges will critique each side. Teachers are not permitted to judge their own students from class. During the speeches, time will be kept and sources will be checked. Judges will choose the winner based on a rubric and they will let the participants know within 10-15 minutes after their category of speeches are over. Re-votes will not be permitted. Later, speakers will receive a compiled comment sheet based on notes the judges made during the speech via email.
Speakers are required to present a PowerPoint, and to have gotten an “A” on their chosen speech. Teachers can guide students into which speech they should choose, but it’s ultimately the decision of the speaker. The speeches are required to be consistent with what they originally presented in class.
Speakers will sign a release permitting the speech to be taped and shown as example speeches to other public speaking classes in the future.
All students are invited to watch the speech meet and speakers are permitted to invite guests as well. Bozeman said the audience is normally built up of around 20 to 25 people.
The speech meet will be held on Nov. 2 at 2 p.m. It is free to watch and expected to be over by 3:30 p.m. Slots are still open to those wishing to participate. To register, contact Bozeman at 512-5102 or email at myra.bozeman@sinclair.edu