Set attainable academic and career goals. Students learn how to meet time goals. Students will be given time limits for all speaking assignments and will learn to gauge themselves to meet these time goals. Furthermore, students learn that when they are not prepared for class, they are not able to give their speeches during a scheduled course session and must make-up the speech outside of class time. Students will learn how to prepare for open-ended exam questions.
Students complete four quizzes during the term and a final quiz.
Review questions are provided in advance of every quiz and the part of all of the class period prior to an exam is dedicated to answering questions. Students will be introduced to the use of the library as an aide in preparing for writing public speeches. Students are asked to learn to use library indexes and retrieve material from the library. Condensing and summarizing. Students will learn to summarize assigned readings.