Communication and Culture | Speech Composition
C323 | 22143 | William E. Wiethoff
Class Number: 22143
TuTh 2:30 PM-3:45 PM
Prerequisite: CMCL-C 121 Public Speaking
Fulfills COAS Intensive Writing Requirement
Fulfills COAS A&H distribution requirement
Professor: William E. Wiethoff
Email: wiethoff@indiana.edu
Office: Mottier #215
Office hours: TBA
Phone: 855-9046
C323 introduces you to the principles and techniques of
speechwriting, the art of writing speeches for delivery by a
client. In three assignments working as a member of a speechwriting
team, you will improve your skills in remediation, education, and
motivation. Each member of the team composes a speech for a C323
student who will be acting as a client. Then the entire team
composes a final draft in consultation with the client. As a client
yourself, you will inspect the speech text written for you, deliver
it in class, and evaluate your speechwriting team in a memorandum to
the instructor. In a fourth assignment working as an individual
speechwriter, you will compose a speech for an outside client.
Ultimately, in this final assignment, you will write a speech for
delivery by a student in Z402, a senior-level management course in
the Kelley School of Business. Several in-class revision exercises
are also assigned during the semester.
Required Text:
TIS Course Packet [CP]
Recommended Website:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm