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COM-210 builds speeches that hold a room and stand up to questions. Eight topics run audience, structure, evidence and delivery under the pressure of being watched.

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What COM-210 is really about

Speaking courses are frequently treated as performance training and graded as composition, which confuses students on both sides. COM-210 is concerned with a distinct problem: a listener cannot reread, cannot skim ahead, and cannot pause to check a figure. Everything about how a speech is built follows from that. Structure has to be audible, evidence has to be assimilable in one pass, and the strongest written argument in the class may be the one nobody in the room can follow.

The written work supports speaking rather than replacing it. You will establish who is in the room before drafting, build a structure a listener can hold without a page in front of them, choose evidence a person can absorb once, match persuasive appeals to where the audience actually starts, work from an outline rather than a script, address delivery and what rehearsal genuinely improves, adapt a speech for a room that is hostile or simply uninterested, and defend the argument in questions. Expect audience analysis to drive every other decision.

What COM-210’s assessments ask for

Assignments build speeches. Audience assignments establish who is present, what they already believe and what they came for. Structure assignments produce an order a listener can follow aurally, with signposts a reader would find heavy-handed. Evidence assignments select material a person can take in once, which rules out dense figures. Appeal assignments start from the audience's position rather than the speaker's. Outline assignments replace scripts, since reading aloud is not speaking. Delivery assignments address nerves practically. Adaptation assignments handle indifference and hostility. Question assignments defend the argument live.

Where students lose points in COM-210

The first marks go for speeches written as essays and read aloud, which lose a room within a minute. Structures that would be clear on a page and are invisible in speech leave listeners unable to tell where the argument is. Evidence dense with figures cannot be absorbed at speaking pace, so it registers as noise. Appeals aimed at where the speaker stands, rather than where the audience does, persuade nobody. Scripts remove the eye contact that carries conviction. Speakers who prepared only the speech come apart in the questions, which is where an audience decides whether to believe it.

COM-210 grading scale at GCU: how the work is graded, from GCU Assignments
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The COM-210 drawers

Topic 1

COM-210 Topic 1 assignment example

An opening topic normally asks who is in the room before anything is drafted. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Topic 2

COM-210 Topic 2 assignment example

Early topics build a structure a listener can follow without a page. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Topic 3

COM-210 Topic 3 assignment example

Around the midpoint, evidence is selected for a listening audience. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Topic 4

COM-210 Topic 4 assignment example

A middle topic weighs a persuasive appeal against the audience's starting position. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Topic 5

COM-210 Topic 5 assignment example

One recurring prompt asks what an outline does that a script cannot. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Topic 6

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Later topics consider delivery, nerves and what practice actually fixes. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Topic 7

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Near the end, a speech is adapted for a hostile or indifferent room. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Topic 8

COM-210 Topic 8 assignment example

Final topics ask for a speech defended in the questions after it. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Using a COM-210 sample the right way

In a sample, the useful part is how a listener's constraints shape the build, since your audience and topic are your own. Watch a structure made audible with signposts, evidence trimmed to what one pass can carry, and an appeal starting where the room starts. Delivering somebody else's speech gives a room a performance rather than a speaker.

How these samples are written

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COM-210 questions, answered

Why can I not just write it out and read it?

Because reading removes the two things that make speech persuasive: eye contact and the small adjustments a speaker makes when a room is not following. A script also invites written sentence structures, which are longer and more subordinated than a listener can track. An outline forces you to hold the argument in your head, which is what makes you sound like you believe it.

How much evidence can a speech carry?

Considerably less than a paper, and the limit is what a listener can absorb once without going back. One well-chosen figure, framed so its significance is obvious, does more than five. Statistics stacked into a passage register as a general impression of numerousness, which is not the impression most arguments need.

What actually helps with nerves?

Preparation of the specific kind: knowing the opening well enough to start without thinking, having rehearsed aloud rather than silently, and having anticipated the questions. General advice about confidence does little. Speakers are most anxious about the first thirty seconds and about being asked something they cannot answer, and both are addressable.