Public
Speaking
Students will:
- craft and present well organized, thesis-driven speeches.
- present well-reasoned and appropriately supported oral arguments that are responsive to topic, purpose, audience, and occasion.
- deliver speeches using an audience-centered, extemporaneous approach.
- use rhetorical concepts and principle to evaluate the effectiveness of their own and others' communication in both academic and civic contexts.
- use rhetorical concepts and principle to evaluate the effectiveness of their own and others' communication in both academic and civic contexts.
Rhetoric and Language
Students will develop competence in these areas:
- Critical analysis of academic discourse: Students
critically analyze linguistic and rhetorical strategies used in long and
complex texts from a variety of genres, subjects, and fields.
- Integrating multiple academic sources: Students
incorporate multiple texts of length and complexity within a unified
argumentative essay, addressing connections and differences among them.
- Academic research: Students develop sophisticated
research questions and compose substantial arguments in response to
those questions, incorporating extensive independent library research
and demonstrating mastery of standard academic documentation modes.
- Style: Students edit their own prose to achieve a
clear and mature writing style in keeping with the conventions of
academic and/or professional discourse.
- Revision: Students develop revision strategies for
extending and enriching early drafts and for producing polished advanced
academic writing.
