Research-based speech
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Model Speaker
10 pts
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Spokesperson
8 pts
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Average Speaker
6 pts
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Fledgling Speaker
4 pts
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Lax Speaker
0 pts
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vivid/provocative opening remarks
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Your riveting attention getter grabbed attention of audience. Lots of surprise brows around the room! Excellent work!
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Your attention getter had the audience watching/thinking. The audience was clearly engaged.
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Audience was listening with some attention. You need to work on this skill.
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Attention device was boring; it had the opposite of the intended effect. Work for a more creative, surprising opening to your speeches.
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You skipped the attention getter entirely. This undermined your ability to connect with the audience throughout the speech.
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claim clearly revealed & well structured for speech
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claim stated & appropriate for speech
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claim needs strength or structure
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It appears that you intended to reveal your claim but skipped it (as you clearly stated it in the conclusion)
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claim missing. This makes it hard for the audience to comprehend the purpose of the speech.
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follows outline template well
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The speech clearly follows the outline template without metacommunication regarding structural elements. No elements are missing.
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The speech follows the outline template without metacommunication regarding structural elements. Only a few elements are incomplete or missing.
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The speech follows the outline template without metacommunication regarding structural elements. However, several elements are incomplete or missing.
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While it is clear that you attempt to follow the outline format you lose the format several times throughout the speech.
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It appears that this speech is entirely unstructured. Please follow the outline template more clearly in the future.
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proof supports claims & reasons
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Your subpoints provide clear proof to support your main points creating complete arguments.
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Your subpoints provide proof to support your main points.
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Your subpoints provide some proof to suppor your main points but the arguments are incomplete.
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Your subpoints and main points are unclear, no coherent argument is created.
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No proof is provided and your main points are unclear.
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You provide proof that compels the audience to support and agree with your arguments.
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You provide proof that is somewhat compelling, the audience might need stronger evidence in order to gain their support.
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While some of the evidence was weak there were a few moments when the audience was compelled to agree with you.
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While evidence is provided to prove your main points, the evidence is not compelling and leaves the audience unengaged.
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You provide no compelling evidence.
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uses different forms of proof well
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You use a variety of supporting evidence masterfully in order to excite interest and support.
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You use a variety of supporting evidence in order to excite interest and support.
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You use at least 2 kinds of evidence in order to support your ideas.
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You provide generalizations in support of your arguments rather than developing your evidence fully.
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You provide no support for your arguments.
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proof is cited
(tells us where you got the information when you use it)
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Clear, complete citations are provided in comfortable oral citation format, boosting your credibility as a speaker.
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Your citations are clear and complete if occasionally awkward.
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Your citations are clear and/or complete but often presented in a way that interrupts the flow of your speech. Practice this skill to improve fluency
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Your citations are incomplete, awkward and there are times that you do not credit sources that clearly are not your own.
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You provide no citations though much of the information clearly comes from sources other than yourself. Be aware that plagiarism is unethical and harms your credibility as a speaker. Visit the pages in the packet on oral citation and talk to me if you need help with this skill.
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sense of comfort & confidence
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You appear relaxed, confident, contagiously enthusiastic
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You appear confident and enthusiastic
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You appear confident and enthusiastic through most of the speech though there were a few tricky moments in which some of your anxiety leaked through.
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Obviously nervous and lacking confidence and enthusiasm
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We were so worried about your well-being that we couldn't focus on the message at all. Work to hide the anxiety and focus on connecting with the audience.
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You appear to be an expert on this subject. You have fully internalized the information and we trust your knowledge of the topic.
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You appear to have expertise on this subject. You have internalized the information and we trust your knowledge of the topic.
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You appear to have some knowledge of the subject. You have internalized some of the information and we trust that you have some knowledge of the topic.
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The information seems to come from outside of yourself (card, walls, floor, ceiling) rather than your own knowledge base. You need to internalize the information so that we can trust your knowledge of the topic.
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You seemed so uncertain of the information that we couldn't focus on the speech. We were worried about your well-being rather than focusing on your message. Work to hide your anxiety from the audience so the message comes to the fore.
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You use powerful emotional appeals that enthrall the audience, creating an emotional rollercoaster that we don't want to get off!
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You use emotional appeals that engage the audience.
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While much of the speech was emotionless and a bit dry there were a few moments in which you succeeded in engaging the audience emotionally.
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You make a few attempts at emotional appeals but the speech is dry and lacks emotion to support the message.
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No attempt made to focus the audience on the message through emotional appeals.
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Your arguments are clear, follow a rational internal logic and lead the audience to support your position.
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Your arguments are clear, follow a rational internal logic and help the audience to support your position.
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While you attempt to follow an internal logic your arguments are occasionally hard to follow.
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Your arguments are confusing though there is, at times, an apparent internal logic.
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No apparent internal logic to hold your arguments together. Very difficult to follow.
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You avoid generalization and instead focus our attention on concrete specifics to create neurological webs of meaning for your audience.
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For the most part you avoid generalization and instead focus our attention on concrete specifics to create neurological webs of meaning for your audience.
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You occasionally use generalization, though at times you manage to focus our attention on concrete specifics to create neurological webs of meaning for your audience.
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The effectiveness of your language is undermined by generalizations though there were a few moments where your use of concrete specifics refocused audience attention.
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It was almost impossible for the audience to focus on this speech because you provided no concrete specifics to anchor meaning in their minds.
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oral style
you sound like you are talking rather than reading
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Conversational style flows easily; you engage and enthrall the audience
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Mostly conversational; throughout most of the speech you engage the audience. Work just a bit to excite and enthrall the audience more fully.
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While much of the speech is in written style or read there are a few moments when you break from the written word and talk to us -- you come alive at these times and we connect fully. Work to maintain this engaging style throughout!
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Attempts to be conversational; reading some of speech
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Not conversational; reads most or all of the speech
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You use vivid sensory information that leads the audience to process information experientially rather than processing through their logic centers.
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For the most part, you use vivid sensory information that leads the audience to process information experientially rather than processing through their logic centers.
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There are times when you use vivid sensory information that leads the audience to process information experientially rather than processing through their logic centers. However, there are also times when you lose us and we begin judging rather than going along for the ride.
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You need to use more vivid sensory information that leads the audience to process information experientially rather than processing through their logic centers. Right now your language is too general and we can't experience the speech, so instead we collapse into judgment.
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Your language is entirely generalized and the audience has no access to experiential processing of information. As a result, they are stuck in judgment and not at all engaged in your speech.
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verbal pauses
(uh, um, you know, etc…)
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Conversational style flows easily; you engage and enthrall the audience without distracting with verbal pauses.
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Only a few verbal pauses that do not detract from the fluency of the message
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The verbal pauses begin to interrupt the flow of your speech. This disrupts audience attention.
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The consistent verbal pauses interrupt the flow of your speech and force the audience to work to follow the flow of the speech.
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Nearly impossible to follow the flow of the speech due to the constant interruptions caused by verbal pauses.
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Effectively, consistently engages audience with eye contact
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Establishes eye contact throughout most of speech
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Attempts to establish eye contact
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Rarely establishes eye contact. You attempt to talk to us but the intimacy of direct eye contact seems too scary for you.
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You never look at the audience. We feel left out and bored.
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Your clothing choices improve your credibility and do not distract from your message in any way.
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Your clothing choices do not distract from your message in any way.
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The eye is occasionally drawn to your clothing and away from the message.
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Your clothes draw attention to themselves and create a distraction from the message.
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Your clothes consistently draw attention from the message as they interrupt audience processing of information.
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nonverbal choices highlight message
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Your nonverbal communication focuses audience attention and consistently engages us in the message.
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Your nonverbal communication focuses audience attention.
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Your nonverbal communication occasionally focuses audience attention though we are, at times, distracted by non-verbal choices.
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Your nonverbal communication distracted from the message leaving us focused more on your actions than the message.
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Your nonverbal communication made us too worried about your well being to focus on the message.
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verbal choices highlight message
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Your verbal choices focus audience attention and consistently engage us in the message.
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Your verbal choices focus audience attention.
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Your verbal choices occasionally focus audience attention though we are, at times, distracted by uncomfortable or unintended verbal choices.
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For the most part, you verbal choices draw attention away from the message but on a few occasions your verbal communication focused audience attention.
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Your verbal choices made us too worried about your well being to focus on the message.
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vivid and complete closing remarks
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The elements of conclusion are compelling and memorable
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Conclusion is effective and includes all elements
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Conclusion missing one of the required elements
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Audience has no idea the conclusion is coming and the speech ends abruptly, missing two of the elements of the conclusion.
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No apparent conclusion. "That's It", "The End", etc… are not effective ways to end a speech.
Wait…was that the end of the speech? Please work on the elements of conclusion. All were completely neglected and the audience didn't even know when to clap.
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