In the Wintensive Workshop, Students learn techniques for writing and delivering their own speeches for competition. They will find both “vision and voice” in this workshop, which will include:
- “Informal Public Speaking” (general guidelines for any speaker)
- Platforms – elements from the ancients – ethos, pathos, logos
- Type distinctions: original oratory, persuasive, expository
- Approach to speech topics – theses and outlines
- Speaker’s Triangle – how to add physicality to delivery
- Guidelines for using gestures
- An overview of rhetorical devices and suitable transitions
- Organizational techniques (i.e., basic, chronological, topical, cause/effect, etc.)
- Analysis of famous speech examples
- Practicum: Platform Packs! 5-man teams write and deliver speeches on given topics with various purposes and organizational paradigms