Homework due by start of class meeting: 

• Click here for the video lecture outline & notes page

Watch the following:  

1. All the Library Research & Developing Presentations Lecture Videos

2. The Ethics of Source Citation

3. Do How to Develop a Central Idea Tutorial 

4. Concept Mapping videos

5. Listen to the Every Speaker Has a Story Podcast on Nerves

Supplemental Reading: 

1. Managing Public Speaking Anxiety

Library Research & Developing Presentations Lecture Video Parts 1, 2 & 3

Concept Mapping 

The Ethics of Source Citation

Every Speaker Has a Story Podcast: Nerves

Handouts & Additional Resources

Concept Mapping Your Topic 

• Concept Mapping Your Topic

• Click here for an example using a digital sticky note board for concept mapping

Library Research

• SPCH 1311 LibGuide

• Google Advanced Search How-To

• How to Search Using Gale General One File

• How to Search Using Credo Reference

How to Develop Your Topic/Central Idea 

• Developing the Central Idea: Tutorial

Managing Nerves in Public Speaking

• Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Tapping--See above for a follow-along EFT tapping video. 

  • • Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT): Tap to Relieve Stress

    • Clinical EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) Improves Multiple Physiological Markers of Health

• Visualization--See video above 

  • • Successful Public Speaking Visualization Audio --scroll to "Public Speaking Visualization"

• Power Posing

  • • Amy Cuddy: Your Body Language May Shape...

      • Debate on Power Posing

• Student Generated Ways to Help with Speaker's Nerves

  • • Concept Map on Managing Public Speaking Nerves--(student generated)

• McCroskey Scale

  • • Personal Report of Public Speaking Anxiety (PRPSA; J. McCroskey Scale

Informative Speech Examples 

• Belmont University Speech Lab: Informative Speeches Playlist