SLO

1. LEARNING
OBJECTIVES
Informative
Speeches
1. Identify common topic categories for informative speeches.
2. Identify strategies for researching and supporting informative
speeches.
3. Explain the different methods of informing.
4. Employ strategies for effective informative speaking, including
avoiding persuasion, avoiding information overload, and engaging
the audience.
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2. LEARNING
OBJECTIVES
Persuasive Speaking
1. Explain how claims, evidence, and warrants function to create an
argument.
2. Identify strategies for choosing a persuasive speech topic.
3. Identify strategies for adapting a persuasive speech based on an
audience’s orientation to the proposition.
4. Distinguish among propositions of fact, value, and policy.
5. Choose an organizational pattern that is fitting for a persuasive
speech topic.
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3. LEARNING
OBJECTIVES
Persuasive Reasoning
& Fallicies
1. Define inductive, deductive, and causal reasoning.
2. Evaluate the quality of inductive, deductive, and causal reasoning.
3. Identify common fallacies of reasoning.
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4. LEARNING
OBJECTIVES
Persuasive
Strategies
1. Identify common persuasive strategies.
2. Explain how speakers develop ethos.
3. Explain how speakers appeal to logos and pathos.
4. Explain how cognitive dissonance works as a persuasive strategy.
5. Explain the relationship between motivation and appeals to needs
as persuasive strategies.
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