COM205: Week 12 Assignment Page 1

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Worksheet: Speech Project – Speech Delivery

Assignment Overview

In this assignment, you will deliver your speech through your computer’s web cam, Smart phone, or other technology that produces the deliverable file format.

Assignment Details:

Perform the following tasks:

· Complete the reading assignment and the interactive lesson before attempting this assignment

· Attend the instructor session to prepare for this assignment.

· To complete the assignment:

· Use the feedback from your instructor provided after turning in your final speech last week.

· Use the Week 12 lesson as a guide for putting final touches on your speech for presentation.

· Review the directions on using your webcam to record the speech in the recording details.

· The instruction to the recording and submitting videos can be found in Student Resources area.

· Record your speech using your webcam.

· Copy the URL of your speech into the designated location in this worksheet.

· Use the proper naming convention when saving your assignment:

· COM205_wk12_assn_jsmith_mmddyyy

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Submit your assignment.

Grading:

Criteria and

Weighting

Levels of Achievement

Exceeds Expectations

Meets Expectations

Needs Work

Organization
(20 points possible)

· Uses effective organizational pattern for speech purpose.
· Main points are clearly distinguished from supporting details.
· Signposts are effectively used for smooth and coherent transitions.
(20 – 16 points)

· General structure/organization seems adequate but some blurring between main points and supporting details.
· Logical flow, but no clear signposts for smooth transitions.
(15 – 11 points)

· Lack of structure.
· Ideas are not coherent and transitions are forced or blurred.
· Difficult to identify introduction, body, and conclusion.
(10 – 0 points)

Eye contact
(20 points possible)

· Consistent use of direct eye contact established rapport with audience and enhanced speaker credibility.
· Inconspicuous use of speaker notes for extemporaneous delivery.
(20 – 16 points)

· Conspicuous use of speaker notes.
· Seems disengaged from audience for noticeable periods of time.
(15 – 11 points)

· Reads speech from notes/manuscripts or slides.
· Avoids eye contact with audience.
· Only occasional and sporadic glances.
(10 – 0 points)

Fluency
(20 points possible)

· Clear pronunciation and articulation.
· Natural variation of rate, tone, and volume heightened interest and complemented the verbal message.
(20 – 16 points)

· Few noticeable errors in pronunciation and/or articulation.
· Limited variation of vocal characteristics.
· Use of rate, pitch, volume, and tone seemed inconsistent at times.
(15 – 11 points)

· Many noticeable errors in pronunciation and/or articulation
· Monotone or inappropriate variation of vocal characteristics.
· Inconsistent with verbal message.
(10 – 0 points)

Body language
(20 points possible)

· Expressive, dynamic, and natural use of gestures, posture, and facial expressions to reinforce and enhance meaning.
· Body language reflects comfort interacting with audience.
(20 – 16 points)

· Stiff or unnatural use of nonverbal behaviors.
· Body language reflects some discomfort interacting with audience.
· Limited use of gestures to reinforce verbal message.

(15 – 11 points)

· Body language reflects a reluctance to interact with audience.
· Distracting movement and/or use of self- adaptive behaviors.
(10 – 0 points)

Peer Review
(20 points possible)

· Provided feedback to a Peers speech.
(20 points)

· Feedback was opinion rather than factual.
(10 points)

· No Feedback was provided.
(0 points)

Total Points

(100 total points possible)

Assignment Worksheet

[Write URL of your recorded speech here.]

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Functions of National Transportation Safety Board and its impact on the Transportation industry

Author’s Name

Institutional Affiliation

Professor’s Name

Course Code

Due Date

National Transportation Safety Board is a federal agency with the mandate to investigate accidents, issue safety protocols and recommendations, help victims of aviation disasters, and promote transportation safety. Its recommendations have helped in building support for various laws enacted to facilitate positive control systems. Having been established in 1967, Congress made it responsible for investigating all the civil aviation accidents to identify safety improvements to help prevent future accidents. The body’s primary functions are to determine the cause of accidents and develop measures that can be put in place to help control the same. The body also has an office of safety recommendations and communications whose responsibilities are to work together with modal administrations and other recipients to track actions and correspondence taken to respond to those recommendations. The office, besides, coordinates communications with Congress, public, and transportation shareholders regarding the board actions and transportation safety advocacy.

References

Fielding, E., Lo, A. W., & Yang, J. H. (2010). The National Transportation Safety Board: A model for systemic risk management. Available at SSRN 1695781.

Marcus, J. H., & Rosekind, M. R. (2017). Fatigue in transportation: NTSB investigations and safety recommendations. Injury prevention, 23(4), 232-238.

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Pay gap Project Final Speech

Andrexa Peluso

03/16/2021

Introduction

The American acting scene has seen various stakeholders and contributors take part in the development and creation of various films and theatre production. This has seen the expansion of the industry into global dimensions with the inclusion of other diverse cultures such as Asian actors, among others. However, there has been a bone of contention in the manner in which remuneration of the various actors has significant difference to their fellow American actors in the industry. This discussion is driven towards highlighting the differences in pay between actors from the two cultures within the industry and what contributes to this. The paper also discusses the activism and how stakeholders have championed for improving this situation for the current and near future.

The arts industry has seen its development from early stages to the current forms of cultural diversity that includes the involvement of various actors. Despite working in favorable conditions and being given equal opportunities, the same could not e said when it comes to the remuneration of these actors. Over the years, actors in theatre and film production have seen the unequal remuneration of these actors despite the equal contribution in term of script writing or even acting of scenes. this has created a lot of debate regarding the unfairness and bias the industry has in the manner that actors are treated in terms of what they are offered in pay as compared to their fellow American actors.

There are several causes that bring about these differences in the media. They have been used as the justification behind the reason as to why there exists this disparity among actors pay. One of the reasons for this is the experience in terms of storyline that are usually popular and appealing to the audience. Majority of the storylines in theatre in American production usually consists of storylines that relate to the lifestyle of natives which tend to be different in terms of culture and background than Asian actors. As such, certain times this does not hold water as pay does not concern itself with the role they have played in the production. Needless to say, this does not sufficiently correlate with the huge discrepancies in pay.

There is also the argument that the differences in pay are as a result of this being a new perspective and era of inclusion after years of being diverse in terms of native African American and American actors themselves. This as such means that there will be an existing bias, not out of ill will but due to years of the arts fraternity being less diverse. This has seen the development of theatre and film to international levels while the remuneration of actors remains the same regardless. As such, this calls for change in policies and strategies that are being used to consider remuneration to be equal across all actors in order to promote equal pay. These policies will ensure that Asian actors are given equal pay and there is a means for them to be able to protest such unfairness.