Speeches must be delivered on the day assigned. If you talk with me in advance about an upcoming absence, expect to deliver the speech early. If you don t speak with me beforehand about very extenuating circumstances, expect to get a zero on any speech you fail to deliver on the due day. By the way, I should probably say something about the effect of zeroes on gradepoint averages. I've taught a basic speech course to well over a thousand students over the years.
Zeroes are killers.
Deliver your speech when it's due. We'll talk more about that later on in the course. And, speeches must be within the minimum and maximum time limits or they will be downgraded. If you have a four to six minute time limit, then under four minutes is too short, and over six is too long. We have only so many days scheduled in the tight syllabus in which to deliver each set of speeches.