Assignmentoutline:Inspirational(Motivational) Speech

ASSIGNMENTOUTLINE:INSPIRATIONAL(MOTIVATIONAL) SPEECH

Assignment title: Volunteering for Social Change

Programme:Hotel Administration 2

Course name:Public Speaking & Presentation Skills

Course number:GEN2134

Faculty responsible: Ms. Priyanka Das

Hand out date:Week 4

Hand in date:01-02 April 2015

Weighting:25%

Assignment Overview:

The purpose of this inspirational speech assignment is to motivate your audience to engage in community development and inspire them to work towards social change, contributing to their personal transformation and empowering them with the confidence, skills and knowledge necessary to effect change in the world. Your speech should inspire the audience by appealing to noble motives and challenging them to volunteer their time and talent to support an organization or cause they love.

Learning outcomes:

1. Tell a story about how the cause and the organization you represent isimpacting the community and driving change.

2.Talk about a community action project promoted and sponsored by the organization you have chosen that the audience can support through volunteering, fundraising or through any form of pro bono work.

3. Explain how the audience can benefit by donating their time and energy working with this non-profit organization you have chosen.

4. The last segment of the inspirational speech should be devoted to call for action by championing for the cause,explaining how your audience can create positive change in their own community by spreading the word and being advocates & supporters of this cause.

Time limit: 5 minutes with 30 seconds grace

Organization & Methodology:

This project emphasizes speaking to inspire. You are to:

Select any non-profit, NGO, charities, community development initiatives in Shanghai. Below is a sample list.

-Heart to Heart Shanghai / -Bethel China
-Home sweet Home / -Safe Kids worldwide
-River of Hearts / -BaobeiFoundation
-Roots and Shoots / -Social Venture Group
-Shanghai Sunrise / - Lifeline Shanghai
-Save the Children / -Half the sky foundation
-ORBIS International / -Shanghai young bakers
-Project HOPE / -Stepping stones
-The Wheelchair Foundation / -WABC
-WWF China
- Care for Children
-The Pacific Rim Institute for Development and Education
-Operation Smile
-Mifan Mama / -Cerecare wellness centre
-Habitat for humanity
-Be Better
-Heifer China

Approach the organization to participate for volunteering or supporting their cause or representing them for fundraising or even for involving yourself for pro-bono work in a community project promoted by them.
Share your experience of this organization in your speech and appeal to the audience seeking advocacy and support to their cause.
You can use visual aids, graphics to support your speech. Avoid using notes since that may cause the audience to doubt your sincerity and conviction.

Delivery & presentation:

You can add drama and impact to your speech if you:

Use quotes, stories and anecdotes throughout the speech. Human-interest stories and anecdotes about overcoming adversity and achieving success attract the audience's interest and add meaning to your message.
Use language that unites listeners and establishes a bond between you and them, such as you and us.
Use vivid words that allow listeners to visualize all of the good things that will happen if they do what you say needs to be done.
Use action verbs to convey power.
Pay attention to the organization of your speech outline.(Follow sample outline format). Your presentation should be direct and urgent, showing that you really care about how your listeners react. You must prove to listeners that you are sincere and believe in your message. Be confident and forceful,and show enthusiasm and vitality. Use body language to demonstrate your conviction. Your conclusion should be emotionally powerful and dynamic. It should challenge listeners or demand that they commit to your cause, and the conclusion should dramatize the benefits of doing so. Finish with a memorable final statement.

Special instructions:

Plagiarism:

Plagiarism is the act of presenting another’s ideas or words as one’s own. Cheating includes, but is not limited to, the intentional falsification or fabrication of any academic activity, unauthorized copying of another person’s work, or aiding and abetting any such acts.

Particular care must be taken when presenting information that has been obtained from an internet site. Should this information not be correctly referenced then you are guilty of plagiarism and will be penalised accordingly.

Statement of authorship

Following the title page of this assignment there should be a page on which you sign a statement that the work included in the assignment is your own work except where appropriately referenced. The following statement should be used:

Statement of authorship

I certify that this assignment is my own work and contains no material which has been submitted as part of an assignment in any institute, college or university. Moreover, to the best of my knowledge and belief, it contains no material previously published or written by another person, except where due reference is made in the text of the assignment.

Signed…………………………………………………………….

Name………………………………………………………………

Inspirational Speech Grading Rubric:

Name:
Title/Topic:
I. Introduction / 15
a. captured attention / 1 / / / 2 / / / 3 / / / 4 / / / 5
b. stated thesis/central idea / 1 / / / 2
c. related topic to audience / 1 / / / 2
d. established credibility / 1 / / / 2
e. previewed main points / 1 / / / 2
f. provided transition to body / 1 / / / 2
II. Body / 40
a. organized main points effectively / 20 / 1 / /2 / // / 3 / / / 4 / / / 5/ 6 / / / 7 / / 8 / /9/ 10
b. transitioned between main points / 1 / /2 / / / 3 / / / 4 / / / 5/ 6 / / / 7 / / 8 / /9 / 10
c. constructed effective argument / 10
1. / appropriateness for audience / 1 / / 2
2. quantity/quality of evidence / 1 / / 2 / / / 3
3. / identification/number of sources / 1 / / 2 / / / 3
4. / use of appeals / 1 / / 2
d. used language appropriate to / 10
1. / topic / 1 / / 2 / / / 3/ / 4 / / / 5
2. / audience / 1 / / 2 / / / 3/ / 4 / / / 5
III. Conclusion / 10
a. restated thesis / 1 / / / 2
b. summarized main points / 1 / / / 2 / / / 3
c. ended with a memorable final thought / 1 / / / 2 / / / 3 / / / 4 / / / 5
IV. Delivery / 25
a. eye contact / 5 / 1 / / / 2 / / / 3 / / / 4 / / / 5
b. effective vocal delivery / 5
1. / appropriate rate and volume / 1 / / 2
2. / clear articulation / 1
3. / varied inflection / 1
4. / no vocal fillers / 1
c. effective physical delivery / 5
1. / appropriate posture / 1 / / 2
2. / appropriate gestures / 1 / / 2
3. / appropriate movement / 1
d. emphasized credibility through: / 5
1. / sincerity / 1 / / 2
2. / confidence / 1
3. / dynamism / 1 / / 2
e. effective time management / 5 / 1 / / / 2 / / / 3 / / / 4 / / / 5
V. Audience / 10
a. the speaker was well prepared and presented the information in a credible manner / 5 / 1 / / / 2 / / / 3 / / / 4 / / / 5
b. the speaker spoke extemporaneously / 5 / 1 / / / 2 / / / 3 / / / 4 / / / 5

Comments:

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Print your speech outline that states the speaking points and general organization of the presentation. Your ‘presentation outline’ will be turned in before your actual in-class presentation.

SAMPLE OUTLINE

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Topic:

Specific Purpose:

Central Idea:

INTRODUCTION

I. The Attention Step

A. (Attention Getter/Relevancy Statement)

B. (Credibility Statement)

C. (Preview)

Transition:

BODY

II. The Need Step

Transition:

III. The Satisfaction Step

Transition:

Internal Summary:

Transition:

IV. The Visualization Step

Transition:

CONCLUSION

V. The Action Step

A. (Summary)

B. (Call to Immediate Action)

C. (Memorable Close)

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