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GUIDELINES FOR INFORMATIVE SPEECH
SP1 SADDLEBACK FALL 2015
Instructor: Steve Rohr
OVERVIEW: 5-7 minute original, factual speech on a realistic subject to fulfill the general goal
of informing the audience. Your Informative Speech will consist of an introduction (attention
getter, thesis, & preview statement), 3 main points, transitional devices, at least 5 credible
sources, and a conclusion (restated preview statement, thesis, & attention getter).
SPEECH DAY: SATURDAY, Oct. 10 or 17*
*Anyone arriving late on this day will risk losing Participation Points!
VISUAL AIDS: Required.
SOURCES: 5 total with 3 cited within the speech!
TOPICS: You must have 2 topics chosen and signed off by me.
Hint: Refer to your notes about the Major Types of Informative Speeches: Objects, Processes,
Events, Concepts
TOPIC OBJECTIVES:
Strive to find a topic that answers the audiences question: Whats in it for me?
Will it improve their lives, fill or empty their wallets, or otherwise directly and
immediately inform their lives?
Strive to find a topic that interests YOU one you are excited to learn more about
Strive to keep the topic from being PERSUASIVE in nature this is a speech to teach.
Hint: This speech should not be controversial in nature.
RESEARCH: Absolutely required for this speech! You must use and orally cite at least three
credible published sources. The quality of your sources is part of your grade. Not all sources are
equally impressive to college professors, or other critical audiences. Use primary sources when
possible. Sources like Wikipedia are NOT allowed and will not be counted as a cited source.
Learn how to use the online library database to find magazines, newspapers, and journals as
sources to support your speech. Get out of the habit of doing all website based research. You will
not stand out as an impressive researcher if all of your sources, even good sources, are from
websites.
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An MLA styled Works Cited list is required. Learn how to use EasyBib.com to get perfect MLA
style.
DELIVERY: Must be extemporaneous. Note cards, scripts, and full sentence outlines are
allowed, but the goal is to know the speech well enough not to read the speech off the cards or
script.
NOTE CARDS/SCRIPT: Make sure you use large font and double space so you can glance
down and find your place easily. This is extremely important! All note cards and scripts are to be
handed in immediately after you have finished giving your speech.
PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES:
Strive for strong extemporization. This means that you will have spent enough time
writing a clear speech and practicing it properly that you can deliver it with strength and
confidence, without relying too heavily on your notes. You cannot pass by reading your
speech.
Strive for meaningful eye contact and connection with the audience. Maintain that
connection and be sure to connect with all areas of the audience.
Strive for good gestures and body movements. Move your body to a different part of the
stage when you transition between main points. Avoid distracting movements such as
playing with jewelry, hands in pockets, or pacing/dancing/rocking movements with your
feet and body.
Strive to ensure you incorporate your visual aids FLUIDLY and naturally into your
presentation.
Strive for a professional appearance. Dress professionally. Casual, every-day attire fails
to establish personal credibility. To be an A-level speaker, you must dress like an A-level
speaker.
Strive for a dynamic delivery. That is, you should seem to be PASSIONATE about your
topic, and you should communicate that enthusiasm to the audience with your vocal style
and body movements.
Strive for appropriate and variable vocal pitch, volume, rate, and tone, based on the
nature of the speech content.
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INFORMATIVE SPEECH CHECKLIST:
Select a Topic: Make sure its appropriate for you, the audience and the situation!
Preliminary Research: Is there enough support material (credible sources)?
Determine the Specific Purpose of your Speech: A single phrase stating precisely
what you want the audience to learn as a result of your speech. Example: To inform
the class about how to prepare 5 healthy meals, in 5 minutes, for under 5 dollars.
Compose a Thesis Statement: A sentence that clearly expresses the central idea of your
speech. Example: There are several fast, healthy, and budget-wise meals perfect for
college students.
Develop the Main Points: Organize your speech around two or three MAIN POINTS.
Brainstorm. Think about how you might organize your speech in a way that would be
both interesting and CLEAR for the audience. Will there be too much information for
you to share or not enough?
Create an Outline: Make a basic outline and start thinking about ways you can best
verbally (and non verbally) relay the information to the audience. You should practice
saying things out loud so you can hear how it sounds and refine when necessary.
Sources: Do you have at LEAST 5 credible sources and 3 you can cite verbally in your
speech?
Create Note cards, script or full-sentence outline: Make sure it is USER-FRIENDLY
for YOU!
Practice, Practice, Practice: In front of the mirror. Tape yourself and playback.
Memorize the beginning (Attention-getter) and conclusion. Practice with your visual aids.
Practice in front of friends or family. It is CRITICAL to stand up and practice your
speech several times.
Be Positive: A great attitude goes a LONG way in public speaking so dont talk
yourself out of doing a GREAT job!
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SPEECH TO INFORM OUTLINE MAJOR PARTS
INTRODUCTION:
Attention-Getter
Introduce Topic
Preview Thesis & Main Points
Establish your Credibility as a Speaker
Transitional sentence
BODY:
First Main Point
Sub Point
Sub Point
Transitional sentence
Second Main Point
Sub Point
Sub Point
Transitional sentence
CONCLUSION:
Restate the thesis and main points
End with a BANG!
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BASIC GUIDELINES FOR VISUAL AIDS
1. Avoid using the chalkboard!
2. Prepare visual aids in advance
3. Practice with your visual aids!!!
4. Make sure your visual aids are big enough for all to see
5. Display visual aids where all listeners can see them
6. Do not stand in front of visual aids
7. Avoid passing visual aids among the audience
8. Do not give a handout to your audience – while you are speaking
9. Display visual aids only while discussing them
10. Talk to your audience – not your visual aids
11. Explain visual aids clearly and concisely
12. Use your aid during the speech – not after
13. Do not put many small photos on one sheet of poster board
14. VIDEOS or AUDIO aids should not exceed 30 Seconds MAX!!!
Most importantly, your VISUAL AIDS are there to SUPPORT your speech, not
DISTRACT from it, REPLACE your delivery or otherwise diminish your own
performance.

It is an assignment I wrote in the critical writing class in the beginning of this semester, but our professor required us to edit it based on her requirement. YOU NEED TO READ AN ARTICLE which I will attach it called A New College Compact/ Addressing the Cost & Quality Crisis in Higher Ed – Third Way. And the analysis and recommendation of this paper totally depend on this article. And I will also attached the requirement of our professor. Thank you!
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Hi! I ve already attached three documents. One is the article that YOU MUST READ, since the main point in my essay is to analysis this article and give recommendations. One is the requirement of this essay from our professor, it shows you the standard of this essay so that you know how to edit it. Another one is my original essay. Thank you!
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Hi, just another important reminder, this is the comments my professor gave to me: You should know that your work is clearly improving this semester in terms of substance and organization. Nonetheless, there are a number of ways in which your writing falls short in terms of clarity. Just as important, some of your ideas about what is wrong with the article are under supported. With some revision, I think you might consider this for the portfolio, though. Let\”s discuss

Discussion Question 1

Review the article at http://www.healthcarereformmagazine.com/article/technology-innovation-us-healthcare.html.

Based on your analysis and understanding of the article, answer the following questions:
What are the two most important reasons for why technology is not adopted? What can be done about them?
What are the ways these two issues can be resolved? Explain.

Discussion Question 2

Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research about nursing informatics or technologies used in nursing. Based on your research, answer the following questions:
What technology does your facility use?
How has it improved patient care or outcomes?
What can be done to make it more useful or to further improve patient care or outcomes?

Seasoned nurse educators possess wisdom about teaching (a kind of with-it-ness), which they have developed through practical experience over the years. As a person new to nursing education, you have a great deal to learn from a seasoned mentor. In order to gain access to that knowledge, you will conduct an interview with an experienced nurse educator either in a hospital or college setting. Your interview may be conducted face-to-face, online, or by telephone.

For this assignment, you are to:
Generate a list of questions you will ask during the interview such as teaching strategies, theories, technology, and evaluation techniques.
Conduct the interview.
Your discussion post should include: The setting.
How the interview was conducted.
The questions asked and the responses given.
Anything else you think to be important.

ASSIGNMENT: topicGun Control community and police safety vs unrestricted right to bear arms. Several sources from books, videos, and periodicals should be consulted, and at least some sources should be relatively recent, i.e., from the 90s or later. This may require you to do research other than the internet (so get on top of your game). The final paper should include a Research Paper Proposal (3-4 pages), an Annotated Bibliography (3-4 pages), as well as a Works Cited Page (1 page). These are included in the final page count.

more instruction and example for proposal and bibliography i will update on attch

Resource: Implementing Change Paper Grading Criteria
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper that addresses the following:
What is the manager’s role and responsibility in implementing change in the department?
How should a manager successfully handle staff resistance to change?
Define each step of the change process: assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
Cite a minimum of 4 references.
Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

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Resource: The Importance of Accountability Paper Grading Criteria
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper that addresses the following:
Why is accountability important in the health care industry?
How is an employee’s accountability measured in the health care industry?
How does accountability apply to ethical considerations in leadership and management?
What does a checks-and-balances process look like in a successful organization?
How does accountability affect an organization’s working culture?
How can you maintain a positive working culture and avoid a working culture of blame?
Cite a minimum of 4 references.
Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Do you believe the Canadian government should begin to provide more subsidies and grants to small-scale, local food producers, rather than continuing to follow the current model which sees large-scale, agribusiness (our largest farms) supported most strongly with tax-payer dollars?

Discuss the ramifications of both scenarios and suggest how you feel this issue influences food security for Canadians, as well as the implications for our environment and the Canadian economy.

Body need 1500 words

n non-capitalist countries like Communist China (described in MacGregor’s The Party) there is one dominant way of getting rich. One must be a member of the ruling elite and use that membership to gain an unfair advantage in the marketplace. The unfair advantage can take many forms, exclusion of foreign competitors, e.g. keeping Google and Gmail out of the Chinese market, a monopoly on the ownership of a natural resource, destruction of competitors through bureaucratic action, preferential access to credit, or simply jailing competitors. In the few cases, where people in non-capitalist countries get rich without an unfair advantage, being a member of the ruling elite (or at least bribing one of them) is required to maintain and protect that wealth. Non-members have no chance of getting and staying wealthy.

In capitalist free market societies, ordinary people can get and stay rich on their own. One way is to invent a new product or a more efficient way of producing an existing one. An example of the latter, described in The Frackers, is technological innovations in oil production which lowered the cost of extracting oil in certain geologic rock formations. Once the technological innovation was discovered people used the free market to capture a portion of the innovation’s value making themselves rich. Drilling rights that were worth little without the new technology were bought and when the technologies benefits became widely known, the new owners profited greatly from producing oil cheaply using the new technology and from the capital appreciation of their drilling rights. Ordinary people with no political power or connections got rich.

A second way is by betting/investing on new products that will be highly demanded or a new technology that will lower the cost of producing existing products. Those who bought Microsoft stock or Google stock before they dominated the operating system and search engine markets profited greatly without actually inventing any new technology or creating a new product. Early investors got rich not by creating new products or discovering new technologies themselves, they got rich by anticipating which products and technologies would ultimately succeed and using financial markets to bet on them.

A related way of getting rich is described in The Big Short. The Big Short tells the story of how economically savvy investors predicted how demand for a good would change in the future and used financial markets to bet on their prediction.

A key feature of this story is how these investors used exotic financial instruments to create leverage, i.e. used exotic financial instruments so that for each $1 they bet they would win hundreds or thousands of dollars if they were proved correct.

The Big Short is the story of how a good understanding of economic theory was used by ordinary people to make themselves fabulously wealthy in a free market capitalist system.

Paper Assignment.

Part 1. Using the draw tools in Word, show what happened to the demand for housing by drawing the demand for housing in 2005, 2006, and 2009. Explain what caused demand to change over this period.

Part 2.  If one wanted to speculate in the sub-prime mortgage bond market, explain the difference between buying a sub-prime mortgage, buying a sub-prime mortgage bond, and buying a sub-prime credit default swap (CDS) and how these financial instruments can be used to bet for profit.

Part 3. Explain the concept of leverage and how it applies to credit default swaps.

Part 4. Consider the players described in The Big Short. These include the large Wall Street firms and insurance companies AIG, Deustche Bank, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, Citibank, and Charlie Ledley of Cornwall Capital, Steve Eismann of FrontPoint Partners, Michael Burry, Greg Lippman, etc. Describe the nature of speculation in the sub-prime mortgage market and identify who was betting on what.

Part 5. In the end, U.S. taxpayers ended up paying almost a trillion dollars to bail out various Wall Street financial institutions. What role did government regulation of financial markets play in the events described in The Big Short.  Consider the Do Nothing Policy discussed in lecture and apply it to the events described in The Big Short.

Notes and Submission Instructions

The paper assignment asks you to answer very specific questions. It is not a book report or an opportunity to wax eloquent on a subject of your choosing. The assignment is to produce answers to specific questions. Your score will be determined by your answer to these questions and the integration of the examples into your argument.

The paper should be no less than 1500 words (~5pages). There is no maximum length.

please include introduction and conclusion

 For the next five SQL questions open a Notepad session and save all 5 answers numbered 1-5. Please paste your query for that number in and then copy the whole answer if it is short or the first few rows and the count if it’s long.

This is a good example of what an ad hoc query does.

German Pharmaceuticals LLC has reason to be concerned that there may be product in the marketplace that could have serious consequences if ingested so they need to know purchase history for some of their customers. You are the junior DBA so you get to create the ad hoc query needed to see if the company needs to reach out to some of their customers. The folks in production indicate that if there has been exposure Leipzig would be the best bet. So, let’s save some lives using only our cloud based SQL compliant database and our “can do”, “roll up our sleeves” etc, etc.

1) Retrieve the name and city for all German customers? (5pts)

2) Further / next, pinpoint just customer(s) from Leipzig showing their customer name(s) and address?

3) List the Customer name(s) order date(s) for the individual(s) identified above?

4) Show the Customer name(s), OrderID (from the Orders table) and Order Details key column for the previous query?

5) Show the CustomerName, ContactName, Address, City, PostalCode, Country, ProductName (and let’s just hope he hasn’t eaten any of the Rössle …)