Week 8 — Midterm Review & Exam
Why this matters
A shift supervisor briefing a morning crew and a youth-team coach talking to a room of parents can each lose the room with one swapped pair, such as a full page read aloud where a few cards belong. One quick test keeps the message on track.
In plain language
This week you look back at Weeks 1 to 7 and see how the first half of the course fits together. Most slips a new speaker makes are a swapped pair (two neighboring ideas traded for each other, such as a specific purpose and a central idea). So this review gives each week one distinction to hold onto, seven in all, and one quick test for each. You also learn one new idea, the five canons of rhetoric (an old way of dividing a speaker's work into five jobs), which works as a map of the whole course. Then you take the midterm.
- Already covered: Weeks 1 to 7, from the communication process to language.
- This week: seven swapped pairs, the five canons, and the midterm.
- How they connect: each week gave you one pair to keep apart.
- Where we're going next: Week 9, Delivery & the Modes of Delivery.
Focus
What is the one distinction each topic asks for, and can you test a sentence against it?
By the end of this module, you should be able to:
- [ ] run the one test that keeps each of the seven pairs apart
- [ ] fix a purpose said aloud, a "studies show," and a signpost that names nothing
- [ ] place each week of the course on the five canons of rhetoric
To-do
Plan your week
- Read Chapter 8 (about 35 minutes), then the lecture and slides.
- Do the practice set (about 20 minutes) and the discussion (about 45 minutes).
- Use the midterm study guide and practice exam, then take the midterm.
This week's checkpoint: name the swapped pair in your own speech draft and run its one test.
You've got this
You have done this work before. Take it in order, and ask your instructor early if a test snags.
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