Practical Benefits of the Public Speaking Course

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I Help you control your communication anxiety.

I Help improve odds that you will succeed in college and

career.

I Help you become a more effective citizen.

This course can help you in many vital ways:

I Help you present yourself as a competent, well-educated

person.

I Help you prepare for important moments in your life.

I Help you become a more critical consumer of public

information.

I Help you develop basic communication skills.

Freedom of Speech

Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression

www.tjcenter.org/about.html

A unique nonpartisan organization devoted to the defense of free expression in all its forms.

Philosophers and Freedom of Speech

www.sjsu.edu/faculty/Brent/190/speechlinks.html

San Jose State University Web site offering a variety of links to freedom of speech sites, many

containing texts of historical documents.

The Freedom Forum

www.freedomforum.org

A nonpartisan international foundation dedicated to free press, free speech, and free spirit for all

people.

Public Speaking, Eighth Edition, by Michael Osborn, Suzanne Osborn and Randall Osborn. Published by Allyn & Bacon.

Copyright © 2007 by Pearson Education, Inc.

8 Part One The Foundations of Public Speaking

As you tailor your voice to diverse audiences,

you will develop a heightened sensitivity

to the interests and needs of others an

important part of what has been called an

other-orientation. The public speaking

class invites us to listen to one another, to

savor what makes each of us unique and

valuable, and to develop an appreciation for

the different ways people live. Your experiences

should bring you closer to meeting one

of the major goals of higher education: to

expand the mind and heart beyond fear of

the unknown, opening them to the whole

range of human experience. 4

Finally, as you learn to speak and listen,

you will gain a richer and more sophisticated

appreciation of the world around you.

You will be encouraged to seek out and consider

multiple perspectives on controversial

issues before committing yourself. Public

speaking classes are unique in that they

make you an active participant in your own

education. You don t just sit in class, absorbing lectures. You communicate. And as

you communicate, you help your class become a learning community. It is no accident

that the words communication and community are closely connected.

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