The most memorable speeches inspire, entertain, and praise. By blending stories and eloquence, great speeches highlight the core values motivating an audience. You might need to do this in a keynote address, a eulogy, or simply a business meeting. Inspiring audiences is a common, but difficult writing challenge. You want a speech that elevates the topic and the audience.
This course gives you a method for preparing and delivering speeches that inspire and entertain. By the end of this course, you should be able to compose and deliver moving speeches that praise core audience values through evidence, storytelling, and humor. You should be able to write eloquent passages in tones appropriate to the audience and occasion and speak fluidly from either a well-prepared manuscript or from memory. Learners will record speeches, providing and receiving peer feedback.
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Speaking to Inspire: Ceremonial and Motivational Speeches
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1Week 1. Using values and storytelling to develop a great speech
Welcome! We begin this week with an overview of the course: What it is and what we’ll be doing. From there we can start preparing our speeches. We’ll start by finding the core values that will drive the speech. Values that speak to the topic and inspire your audience. We’ll then explore how to discuss those values through evidence and storytelling. By the end of the week, you’ll have a list of values and stories to write a speech. With a sense for the topic, we can then get to know each other with an introductory speech. It’s a fun and easy speech that allows you to get to know some of your classmates.
18 vídeos (Total de 92 min), 6 leituras, 4 testes
18 videos
Welcome!1min
What’s this course about?5min
Ceremonial speech assignment6min
What do ceremonial speeches do?4min
How to find your fit5min
A process for preparing speeches3min
You need values at the core of your speech4min
Finding your values6min
Supporting your values6min
What is a story?5min
How stories help your speech6min
Structuring your story3min
What's the point of the story?8min
Writing characters7min
Writing description4min
Transforming stories into anecdotes5min
Sample introduction speech2min
How to record speech videos4min
6 leituras
Week 1 preview2min
Ceremonial speech assignment description (Optional reading)10min
Values in action--Emma Watson15min
The most touching story--Frank Oz remembers Jim Henson15min
Week one lesson summaries2min
Week one assignment check-in5min
3 exercícios práticos
Ceremonial speaking6min
Stories6min
Week one quiz10min
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2Week 2. Arrangement. Finding the right form for your speech.
Last week, we worked on developing the pieces of our speech (values and support). This week, we’ll take those pieces and build a speech outline. There are a few broad arrangement models that prove helpful in organizing the speech in a compelling and moving way. We’ll look to some of the very specific concerns that emerge when dealing with speeches of introduction, eulogies, and award speeches. Having discussed invention and arrangement, we'll watch and evaluate a sample speech. You’ll watch a speech, write up some feedback, and read how others analyzed the speech.
8 vídeos (Total de 52 min), 7 leituras, 2 testes
8 videos
Topical arrangement4min
Narrative arrangement6min
Informative arrangement6min
Speeches of introduction7min
Presenting and receiving awards6min
Eulogies9min
Sample ceremonial speech6min
7 leituras
Week 2 preview2min
Arrangement at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame10min
Public mourning--The 9th Earl Spencer's Eulogy for Princess Diana of Wales15min
Speech analysis #1 overview2min
Matt's review (Optional)5min
Week two lesson summaries2min
Week two assignment check-in5min
1 exercícios práticos
Week two quiz10min
Semana
3Week 3. Getting it just right. Good language, tone, and writing for the delivery
You have your outline, so now let transform that into a manuscript. This week is all about style. We’ll start by thinking about what overall style is most appropriate for your speech. Then we’ll move through a bunch of stylistic devices. These are equations for eloquence. You put your value into these stylistic devices and eloquence pops out the other side. From there, we can talk more about word choice and overall tone. Once we have the basic structure down, we can look to openers and closers, basically figuring out how to get into and out of the speech. Finally, we’ll talk a little bit about writing for the ear and drafting a speech manuscript (which is different from an essay). The optional assignment this week is a draft manuscript. This is just a chance to get some feedback from others on an early draft.
11 vídeos (Total de 54 min), 6 leituras, 4 testes
11 videos
Stylistic devices: Allusions and rhetorical question6min
Stylistic devices: Tricolon and enuimeratio5min
Stylistic devices: Diacope, epanalesis, epizeuzis.4min
What is speech “tone”?2min
Presidential tone comparison9min
Presidential tone analysis5min
Writing for the ear4min
Preparing a manuscript4min
Formatting a manuscript for speech delivery4min
Speaking from a manuscript2min
6 leituras
Week 3 preview2min
Strategies for openers10min
Strategies for closers10min
Which manuscript format do you prefer?10min
Week three lesson summaries2min
Week three assignment check-in5min
3 exercícios práticos
Style6min
Manuscripts6min
Week three quiz10min
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4Week 4. Remembering and delivering a great speech.
You have your manuscript, now let’s perform it. Memory and delivery are clearly linked. We need to decide whether we’ll extemporize the speech, work from a manuscript, or memorize the whole thing. No one approach is inherently better, but should be a good response to the rhetorical situation. We’ll talk about making this decision. Now we can finally get into some humor work. Some of this is certainly invention, but a lot of it is delivery. We’ll think about where and how to insert some humor into our speeches. And just as important, what to do when a joke falls flat. We’ll wrap up with some general delivery and performance issues. The assignment this week is a speech analysis. You’ll watch a speech, write up some feedback, and read how others analyzed the speech.
12 vídeos (Total de 67 min), 6 leituras, 2 testes
12 videos
Overview of memorization5min
Memory techniques4min
Memorization process4min
Humor in speeches6min
Integrating humor8min
What humor do I leave in? What do I take out?4min
A failed joke is your best opportunity5min
Martin Nevdahl: How the voice works4min
Martin Nevdahl: Techniques for good vocal performance6min
Martin Nevdahl: Maintaining vocal health5min
Sample ceremonial speech #24min
6 leituras
Week 4 preview2min
Funny building to meaning: Conan O'Brien's 2011 Commencement Address20min
Speech analysis #2 overview1min
Matt's review (Optional)5min
Week four lesson summaries2min
Week four assignment check-in5min
1 exercícios práticos
Week four quiz10min
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Dr. Matt McGarrity
Principal LecturerUW Department of Communication
Sobre University of Washington
Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest state-supported institutions of higher education on the West Coast and is one of the preeminent research universities in the world.
Sobre o Programa de cursos integrados Dynamic Public Speaking
Good speaking is your most enduring job skill. This four-course specialization will provide you with the instruction, experience, and practice to develop and deliver compelling presentations. Drawing from the established knowledge in communication, rhetoric, linguistics, and argumentation, each course balances proven ideas with lots of speech practice.
The courses in this specializations should help speakers at all levels. If you are nervous about public speaking, this is for you! I have spent an entire career helping nervous novice speakers grow into confident communicators. We slowly work up specific skills that you can practice multiple times before putting together a longer speech.
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