Presents six impromptu speaking exercises suitable for developing a variety of speaking skills. (PD)

Describes the use of a maze to teach students how to construct the speech outline. Provides an example. (PD)

Points out the importance of speech activities in the English curriculum. (JL)

Traces the movement away from the classical model of speechwriting and proposes a new rationale for viewing ghostwritten speeches as organizational products. Notes the implications for speech pedagogy. (PD)

Points out that preparing a manuscript for oral presentation often requires modifying, simplifying, amplifying, clarifying, and intensifying the original writing. Also notes that a speaker can make reading the paper more interesting by knowing the paper very well and striving for eye contact with the audience. (TJ)

Presents six generalizations on using humor in public speaking. (PD)

An exercise that teaches students how to develop a speech by using an outline form that synthesizes library research and personal observation. (PD)

Argues that secondary communication courses are a likely and promising forum for peace education. Offers ideas for content development. (PD)

Describes an exercise to help students prepare for emergencies that arise in public speaking situations. (PD)

Describes a speech assignment in which students describe a geometric figure well enough so that listeners can then draw the figure. Exercise is based on philosophy of teaching and learning in W. Timothy Gallwey's "The Inner Game of Tennis." (PD)

Describes an exercise in which students report on rhetorical choices they make when preparing speeches, based on analyzing their public speaking class as an audience. (PD)

Describes methods for teaching students to converse in a second language, focusing on games and themes. (BK)

The paper presents a program for increasing spontaneous functional speech to autistic like children. The program, applicable to individual and group settings, emphasizes the use of language skills beyond the classroom. (Author/CL)

Describes a device, the speaker resume, which provides students with biographical information on an orator's education, achievements, historical impact, rhetorical skills, and personal data. Includes a sample resume of Daniel O'Connell, Irish orator. Useful to teachers and students for class discussion and further investigation. (PD)

A college communication professor discusses methods which will help learning disabled (LD) as well as non-LD students. General techniques advocated include presenting information in a variety of ways, allowing opportunities for questions and clarification, using an organized presentation of information, and being flexible in assignments and…