Speech Comm

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

(ooc: sorry about yesterday, the real world couldn't be avoided. Also, anyone who asked for enrollment is enrolled...I just haven't updated my roster yet.)


I'd like you to begin writing speeches. You will deliver them to the class. Since it's the first one, they should be about 5 minutes long and try to persuade us to your side of something you feel passionate about. For example: PEanut Butter is the foulest substance on the earth and should be made illegal. And now I convince you.

3 of your best tools are ethos, pathos, and logos. These are Greek terms. Each of these is an appeal to a particular way people think. Ethos has to do with the speakers' character, and therefore, authority regarding the subject. Logos is how logically sound your argument is, and Pathos brings in emotional appeal. For example, I might make you hate peanut butter by making you sad that little children are dying from allergies to it. Or something.

You have a lot of freedom on this, and they are short. So go.

(ooc: again, a simple "assignment done" will suffice)


I got the feeling I lost a lot of you with that lecture from Friday, so let's talk about it. Prepare to take notes.

How we communicate is based on who we are, who we perceive we are, who we are communicating with, how we perceive that receiver, and the mode via which we are communicating...now, visual media vs face to face communication...
*CJ faces the board and begins to draw diagrams to go with her lecture, oblivious to what the class is doing*

*Unless gunfire or physical violence breaks out*

Comments

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack looks awful. Getting shot in the ass with a pulse pistol isn't a good look for him. Pathetic pretty much covers it.

(OOC: Feel you on the RL thing. Ugh. :::facedesk::::)

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

*Parker comes in looking vengeful and perky, and proceeds to outline plans to Get Crichton while simultaneously working on a speech about how gun control is important*

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

*gives a five minutes speech about how women can sometimes be very evil when they work in packs against a solitary man who isn't properly defending himself*

...*tries to hide his sulkiness while doing so*

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

*Parker smirks through the whole thing*

[http://users.livejournal.com/___lily_evans_/]

*reviews notes from Friday, highlighting important passages. Is slightly disappointed that today's lecture contains nothing new*

[http://users.livejournal.com/___lily_evans_/]

(Speech 301)

301

[other-logan.livejournal.com]

takes notes idly, while casually watching Lily out of the corner of his eye. He hasn't seen her since their coffee/movie quasi-date on Sunday

Re: 301

[http://users.livejournal.com/___lily_evans_/]

*looks up from her notes to find Logan staring at her*

*blushes and looks down quickly*

[death-n-binky.livejournal.com]

*DEATH walks in, for those than can see him, now clad in a colored-condom robe and scythe. He sits down and begins writing a speech...



It continues in this fashion, containing slightly bizarre fashion advice and a reworking of the definition of trendy as it relates to a lack of function, as well as periodically being littered with grandiose self-titles and insinuations that DEATH shall come to all*

[death-n-binky.livejournal.com]

[kimberly-shaw.livejournal.com]

*takes notes for 301*

[not-an-ex-demon.livejournal.com]

Anya starts to take notes, which quickly turn into doodles of naked Xanders as she loses track of what Cregg is saying.

[absolutesnark]

*begins taking notes*

301

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

*takes notes as this lecture is all new to her*

Well, new this time round...

[wannabelawyer.livejournal.com]

*Shows up for 201, grins and scribbles down a few ideas for speeches*



*takes notes in 301, since Friday was pretty much nap time and not class time at all*

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

*has a seat toward the back and jots down notes for speech ideas in 201*


*leaves notebook open for 301, doodles in the margins and bites on a nail in the manner of someone who's usued to having long nails and keeping them while watching Professor Cregg draw things on the board.*

[i-love-manolos.livejournal.com]

*takes notes for 101*

301

[2ls-in-oneill.livejournal.com]

*Assignment done, half illegible and dried drool spots near the bottom*

Great lecture. Even better the second time around.

[http://users.livejournal.com/sydney_bristow_/]

*assignment complete*

[theboobs-summer.livejournal.com]

*jots down notes for 101; practices speech*