iRubric: U.S. Academic Culture - Informative Speech Spring 2018 rubric

Speak conversationally from your knowledge of the topic (not from notes or memorized script).

Speak with a varied, dynamic, interesting pace (avoid using a 'sing-song,' predictable rhythmic-pattern).

Use supportive gestures; move with purpose (avoid pacing and distracting movement).

Maintain a professional (i.e., appropriate), organized, and well-prepared delivery throughout.

You greet your audience and then build on areas of agreement in order to gain trust and make your audience agree with you from the start.

Provides audience with new information, insights, or ways of thinking about the given topic.

Provide examples for your main points. Examples may be another quotation, a research study, personal experience, etc.

You are using at least three external sources and you provide both in-text citations and a References list in accurate and complete APA style.

Appropriate use of grammar and transitional signals throughout your speech.