This semester, eight students have been selected from their classrooms to compete against each other in order to represent their Effective Public Speaking COMM 2211 class and professor.
The Fall Speech Meet is a competition that involves public speaking. Four students are to take on an informative speech, while the other four take on the persuasive speech. These students have received an ‘A’ on their in class assignments and have been invited to participate by their professors.
“We have a little trophy that probably had nothing to do with speech at one time, but it’s got a little brass cup at the top and we just taped a little thing that said ‘Speech Meet Winner.’ it gets passed around to the professors of the winning student,” Communication department Chair Heidi McGrew said.
McGrew also said that student who win are offered separate prizes, such as tuition credit based on first second third and fourth placement in the competition.
“In the informative speech, judges will be looking for a well-developed thesis, citing sources, eye contact, fluency etc…” McGrew said. “In the persuasive speech it is more difficult, judges will be looking for the quality of the sources cited and are required to follow Monroe’s Motivated Sequence, which is a five step process students go through to persuade the audience.”
Students that are in the 2013 Fall Speech Meet will be presenting on Nov. 1 in the Library Logia at noon. The meet is open to the public and free to attend.
McGrew advises anyone that is interested in competing in the meet to enroll in spring semester’s COMM 2211 class and listen to the professor, ask questions that will strengthen yourself and contact her with any questions at 512-2812.