Week 9 — Readings & Resources

Your primary reading is Chapter 9 (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 54–62 minutes for everything. Each group points back to the matching chapter section and class-session segment, so use the full menu when you want more, 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 (19–21 min total)

• Delivering a Message in a Speech — Patricia Jenkinson
• Speech Delivery Practice — Writing & Speaking Center
• How to Use Gestures and Body Language to Keep Your Audience Engaged — Toastmasters International

① Picking a delivery method and speaking from notes

Chapter 9, Section “The four delivery methods: match the method to the moment” · Session 1, Segment 1, “The four delivery methods” · Remember: prepare and practice the ideas, then speak from brief notes instead of reading or reciting.

• Delivering a Message in a Speech — Patricia Jenkinson — a video lesson on how a speech differs from a conversation, the four methods of delivery, and the traits of good delivery; as you watch, match each method to one of the four moments in the chapter, and use it while you complete the Week-9 module overview. (video, 8 min) (captions: creator)
• Speech Delivery Practice — Writing & Speaking Center — a speaking center's short guide to practicing a speech, working from notes, and standing at a lectern without hiding behind it; this builds on Week 5's work organizing a speech and putting it in an outline, since the speaking outline is what you practice from. (reading, 4–6 min)

② A voice that carries the meaning

Chapter 9, Section “Vocal delivery: make your voice carry the meaning” · Session 1, Segment 2, “Vocal delivery” · Remember: change your pace, pitch, and volume on purpose, and let a planned pause do the work a filler cannot.

• Creating Vocal Variety — NWS Learning Office — a weather service meteorologist's training video walks through volume, tone and pitch, and pace and pause; notice that none of the advice is to speak louder all the time. (video, 8 min) (captions: creator)
• Reducing Filler Words — NWS Learning Office — a short look at why too many fillers make a speaker sound less prepared and why practice is the cure; it calls an occasional "um" harmless, so practice the first line of your own speech until the fillers thin out. (video, 2 min) (captions: creator)
• Effective Speaking — SkillsYouNeed — a skills site's guide to pace, pitch, volume, clear speech, and pauses, with a breathing exercise; it suggests a pause length of its own, and this course teaches pause length and rate in words, so treat its numbers as one site's advice. (reading, 8–10 min)

③ A body that agrees with your words

Chapter 9, Section “Physical delivery: let your body agree with your words” · Session 1, Segment 3, “Physical delivery” · Remember: give one listener a whole thought, move with a purpose, and cut the nervous habits that pull the eye.

• How to Use Gestures and Body Language to Keep Your Audience Engaged — Toastmasters International — a contest-winning speaker shows how to plan movement and gestures so a speech does not stay frozen at the lectern; sort each gesture she shows as descriptive or emphatic. (video, 7 min) (captions: creator)
• 2 Simple Tricks to Improve Eye Contact While Public Speaking — Comm Studies — two quick techniques for looking at listeners without staring or sweeping the room; compare them with the chapter's rule of one person, one thought. (video, 3 min) (captions: creator)
• Mastering Body Language — Toastmasters Magazine — a magazine article on holding a gaze for the length of a thought, open gestures, purposeful movement instead of pacing, and steady posture; find the line about weight shifting and check your own last recording for it. (reading, 6–8 min)

④ What listeners read from your delivery

Chapter 9, Section “The rehearsal loop: compare two takes and check the machine” · Session 2, Segment 4, “The rehearsal loop” · Remember: watch your take for a moment you can name, because listeners judge you on those moments too.

• Delivery: Questions — Patricia Jenkinson — a short video on the questions an audience silently asks about a speaker, such as whether you take the moment seriously, and how delivery answers them; stop here before presentation aids, which next week takes up. (video, 5 min) (captions: creator)

Optional one-stop reference (free online reference)

• Silent Messages, description and note on the equations — Albert Mehrabian — the researcher's own page for the work behind the "7-38-55" figure; scroll to his note on the equations, which says they come from experiments on feelings and attitudes, and skip the ordering details. (reading, 3–5 min)

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