1.Effective oral presentation preparation in formal and informal settings. 2. Basic presentation skills such as audience analysis, topic selection, research development of supporting materials, structuring, and outlining a speech. 3. The nonverbal elements of effective public speaking. 4. Effective listening skills and evaluation criterias as an audience member. 5. Supporting material and information in presentations such as statistics, examples, narratives, testimony, and use of comparison, contrast, and analogies. 6. Ethical responsibilities of public speaking. 7. Effective use of presentational aids. 8. Persuasive speaking using evidence, proof and argument. 9. Researching, organizing, and presenting information in the classroom, career, and community. 10. The relationship between language and meaning and the use of effective language in public speaking. 11. Listening, thinking, and speaking critically; examining propaganda, logical fallacies, bias. Etc. 12. Delivering Presentations on Controversial Topics.