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PUBLIC SPEAKING BWR206

Duration (approx) 100 hours
Qualification
Statement of Attainment

Master Public Speaking for Career and Professional Success

  • Online course. Flexible start date. Expert tutors. 9 lessons.
  • Study to write and give effective and interesting speeches.
  • Useful for professionals, teachers, coaches, writers, etc.

 

COURSE CONTENT

This course has nine lessons as follows:

Lesson 1: Scope and nature of public speaking

  • The nature of public speaking
  • The scope of public speaking
  • Context influence the nature and scope of speaking
  • Critical factors in public speaking
  • The ultimate message
  • Speaker/listener relationship
  • Channel
  • Feedback
  • Interference

Lesson 2: Writing and preparing speech

  • Words! Words! Words!
  • Clarity and confusion
  • Reorganising words leads to different results
  • Questions
  • Rhetoric and rhetorical devices
  • Speech preparation
  • Speech organisation
  • Outline
  • Purpose
  • Subject statement
  • Development
  • Sample outline
  • Other important factors to consider
  • Attention
  • Transitions
  • Orientation
  • Conclusion and summary

Lesson 3: Presentation and delivery

  • A speech
  • Volume, pitch, tone
  • Projection (volume)
  • Voice
  • Vocal health
  • Dealing with nerves
  • Body language
  • How to present a speech
  • Visual aid and media
  • Types of visual aids
  • Reasons for and against the use visual aids and media
  • For visual aids and media
  • Against visual aids and media

Lesson 4: Toasts and entertainment

  • Speaking for entertainment and toasting
  • Toasts
  • Content and focus
  • Timing
  • Humour
  • Body language
  • Voice
  • Master of ceremonies (mc)
  • Focus
  • Paying attention to the audience
  • Use of humour
  • Voice and body language
  • Story, script, and narrative
  • Preparation
  • Vocal technique
  • Adding character
  • Body language
  • Types of speeches
  • Introductions

Lesson 5: Debate and presenting argument

  • Introduction
  • What is rhetoric?
  • Ethos, pathos, and logos
  • Ethos: persuasion by character
  • Pathos: persuasion by emotion
  • Logos: persuasion by reason or logic
  • Persuasive context
  • Rhetorical triangle
  • Constructing an argument for speech or debate
  • Logic, fact and fallacy
  • Constructing an argument
  • What is a logical fallacy?
  • Critical thinking
  • Persuasive speaking

Lesson 6: Lecture and informative speech

  • Know your subject
  • Fact checks
  • Questions and answers
  • Use elements from other areas of public speaking
  • Important points about fact-based presentations and educational presentations
  • Structuring a lecture or informative presentation
  • General educational lecture
  • The Socratic method
  • Hands-on lectures: practicals, activities, and exercises
  • The role of vulnerability

Lesson 7: Evaluating a speech

  • Evaluating a speech
  • Introduction
  • Quality and evaluation
  • Anonymous or not?
  • Feedback
  • Ways to examine the quality of a speech/ speaker
  • Evaluating a toast or entertainment speech:
  • Evaluating a debate or argument:
  • Evaluating a lecture or informative speech:
  • Regaining confidence after a poor speech

Lesson 8: Question speaking for broadcast media

  • Introduction
  • Broadcasts
  • Rhythm of speaking
  • Slang and colloquial speech
  • Filler words
  • Developing a speech for broadcast media
  • Radio and podcast or sound recordings
  • Sound recordings
  • Television and film presentation
  • Media interviews and speaking on panels

Lesson 9: Project: prepare and deliver a speech

  • Why is problem-based learning important?
  • Project aim
  • Learning outcomes
  • Problem definition
  • Your speech
  • Discussion questions
  • Team structure and mode of interaction
  • Final PBL submission

Course Aims

  • Explain the scope and nature of public speaking and recognise the different contexts in which speeches are delivered.
  • Explain how word choice, speech organisation and preparation combine to influence the impact of a speech. 
  • Examine the delivery and presentation of a speech. 
  • Structure and examine quality of toasts and entertaining speaking.
  • Examine, construct, and discuss quality of argument and debate.
  • Construct and examine quality of lecture and informative speaking. 
  • Analyse the elements and techniques used to evaluate a speech and gather feedback from the audience. 
  • Explain key elements of preparing and delivering speech on broadcast media.
  • Conduct a speech and evaluate the audience response. 

 

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Why Study Public Speaking?

Public speaking is nerve-wracking for many people, but public speaking is important in many different careers. Many careers will require some aspects of public speaking, whether it is giving a presentation, chairing a meeting, teaching a class, giving a lecture or presenting a show. Public speaking can be carried out face to face or online.

Who are the Writing Tutors on the Course?

The course was written and developed by international writers and tutors, including –

John Mason - author of over 150 books, 2000+ articles, for a range of publishers including Simon and Schuster, Landlinks Press (CSIRO Publishing), Harper Collins and Hyland House.

Rosemary Davies – Horticultural writer and presenter. Full time columnist with the Herald and Weekly Times for years.  Worked for a number of companies in writing and publications.

Tracey Jones – Psychologist and writer. Course writer and developer for over 25 years. Fiction writer, particularly interested in supernatural fiction and folklore.

Who Is This Course Suitable For?

This is a course for speakers, influencers, vloggers, teachers, politicians, media presenters, leaders or anyone who wants to improve their skills and confidence in public speaking.

How does the course work?

The course requires around 100 hours of study.  It is made up of 9 lessons. At the end of each lesson, there is an assignment to submit to your tutor for marking and feedback. You can also contact your tutor with any questions throughout the course.

What Will You Learn in This Course?

  • Learn to Communicate more effectively
  • Develop better verbal communication skills
  • Build self-confidence for public speaking
  • Understand the techniques (tools) which can be used to make public speaking more effective.
 

This course is suitable for professional/career development, CPD or personal interest.

Where are Public Speaking Skills Used?

In the past, public speaking referred to speaking face to face to a live audience. In the modern world, public speaking has become much more than this.  It can include speaking face to face with an audience but also speaking live to an audience over technology or pre-recording speeches via audio or video to show to audiences.  

Public speaking has been transformed with the new technologies available to pass the spoken word from one side of the world to another. To do this live (real time) or record this information for people to listen to later. But public speaking is still essentially the idea of passing information on to others for a variety of reasons. Public speaking can also now be formal and more informal, depending on the reasons for the speech.

The word “speech” often implies a formal, academic talk by a professional, but a speech is much more than that. A speech is simply an expression of someone’s thoughts, knowledge, or information. It does not have to be a serious, formal monologue by a politician or academic. It can be a fun talk by a teacher or expert in the field.  

This course is therefore very useful for anyone who needs to speak in public and wants to improve their public speaking skills.

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Meet some of our academics

John MasonWriter, Manager, Teacher and Businessman with over 40 years interenational experience covering Education, Publishing, Leisure Management, Education, and Horticulture. He has extensive experience both as a public servant, and as a small business owner. John is a well respected member of many professional associations, and author of over seventy books and of over two thousand magazine articles.
Maggi BrownMaggi is regarded as an expert in organic growing throughout the UK, having worked for two decades as Education Officer at the world renowned Henry Doubleday Research Association. She has been active in education, environmental management and horticulture across the UK for more than three decades. Some of Maggi's qualifications include RHS Cert. Hort. Cert. Ed. Member RHS Life Member Garden Organic (HDRA) .
Tracey Jones (writing)Tracey has enjoyed creative writing since she was a child. She has had several short stories published and a novella. She is also a keen writer of children's stories and poetry. She has also written many academic and non-fiction books in the fields of psychology, sociology, child development, writing and marketing.


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