Week 8 · Readings & resources

Week 8 — Readings & Resources

Public Speaking Free sample edition

Your primary reading is Chapter 8 (in this module). Everything below is the optional, go-deeper layer — pick what helps, skip the rest.

How to use this page

This page has 10 items (4 readings and 6 videos). Allow 68–76 minutes for everything. Each group points back to the matching chapter section and class-session segment, so use the full menu when a pair still feels shaky, or take the quick path below.

Every video here has captions: turn them on with the CC button in the player. The chapter covers the same ideas in text.

Pick-one quick path (20–22 min total)

① The process and the people in the room

Chapter 8, Section “Hearing versus listening: choose to take it in” · Session 1, Segment 2, “Hearing versus listening, and tendency versus stereotype” · Remember: hearing happens on its own, listening is a choice, and audience analysis checks a tendency before it trusts it.

What is Communication? — National Communication Association — the discipline's own short account of what communication studies covers, including how people create meaning through messages and channels and how the field grew out of classical rhetoric; read it with the chapter's channel-versus-message test in mind. (reading, 4–6 min)
Audience Analysis — COMMpadres Media — a short tutorial on why speakers analyze an audience and how they gather what they need; as you watch, sort each tip under the demographic, psychographic, or situational lens, and use it while you complete the Week-8 module overview. (video, 7 min) (captions: creator)

② Proof you can say out loud

Chapter 8, Section “Expert versus lay testimony, and the complete oral citation” · Session 1, Segment 4, “Expert and lay testimony, and the oral citation” · Remember: name who, what, and when before the evidence, and drop any claim whose source you cannot find.

Oral Citations — Communication Center — a speaking center's guide to citing a source out loud, with spoken examples for a book, a newspaper article, a journal article, and an interview; it lists the author's credentials as a fourth part, which this course folds into who as the credibility clause. (reading, 4–6 min)
Oral Citations — COMMpadres Media — a brief tutorial on when a speech needs an oral citation and how to deliver one smoothly; pause after each example and check it for who, what, and when. (video, 5 min) (captions: creator)

③ From the full page to the cards

Chapter 8, Section “Preparation outline versus speaking outline, and transition versus signpost” · Session 2, Segment 6, “Two outlines, and transition versus signpost” · Remember: build the speech on full sentences, then speak from keywords on cards so delivery stays conversational.

Developing the Speaking Outline — Dr.TByrdCommSkillz — a short lesson on turning a full plan into keyword notes that support an extemporaneous speech; this builds on Week 6's speaking outline, the five cards the running speech is delivered from. (video, 6 min) (captions: automatic)
John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address — US National Archives — the archive's short look at the handwritten notes, typed drafts, and reading copy behind the address, with clips of its delivery; notice how much work the words got on paper before anyone heard them. (video, 4 min) (captions: creator)

④ The five canons as one map

Chapter 8, Section “The five canons of rhetoric: map the whole workflow” · Session 2, Segment 8, “The five canons of rhetoric” · Remember: invention, arrangement, and style are behind you, and memory and delivery come next.

Rhetorica ad Herennium, Book I — LacusCurtius — an older English translation of the anonymous Roman handbook; read only its opening sections and find the sentence that lists the five faculties a speaker should possess. (reading, 3–5 min)
Cicero's Canons of Rhetoric — Patricia Jenkinson — a video lesson that walks invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery with their Latin names; the video credits the canons to Cicero, and this course places them in the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium, once credited to Cicero, and in Cicero's De Inventione. (video, 12 min) (captions: creator)
The Canons of Rhetoric and Public Speaking — Stephen Klien — a longer video lesson that treats the canons as steps for preparing and presenting a speech; stop here before the details of delivery, since next week takes up delivery and the modes of delivery. (video, 18 min) (captions: automatic)

Optional one-stop reference (free online reference)

Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Japan (1941) — National Archives — the archive's transcript of Roosevelt's 1941 address; check the "Last night" sentences and the phrase "a date which will live in infamy" against it word for word, and skip the background essay if you are short on time. (reading, 5–7 min)

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