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UNO Speech Center

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UNO Speech Center

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"Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel."

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What We Do:

The UNO Speech Center is a resource to faculty, staff, and both undergraduate and graduate students at the university, where clients can receive guidance, suggestions, and professional evaluations for oral communication.

Services We Provide:

The UNO Speech Center can assist students, faculty, and staff with the following aspects.

Student Individual and Group Presentation (Professional & Academic)

  • Generating and developing speech ideas
  • Adapting to an audience
  • Researching supporting material and evidence
  • Writing speech outlines
  • Delivering speeches effectively
  • Using speech-writing software
  • Viewing model speeches
  • Evaluating self speeches recorded in-class
  • Communication apprehension relief techniques

Faculty and Staff:

  • Writing Presentation/Speech assignments for any course
  • Creating rubrics/grading guidelines for presentations/speeches
  • Preparing and developing any presentation for professional and academic uses
  • Providing tips for in-person and online presentations
  • Communication apprehension relief techniques

Orientations

The Speech Center provides orientation presentations to individual classes, departments, or programs. These orientations provide basic information about the Speech Center as a UNO resource.

Workshops

The Speech Center provides tailored workshops to classes, departments, and programs on oral presentation-centered topics. Workshops can take place in assigned classrooms, department meeting rooms, online, or in ASH 183. Those interested in a workshop can contact the speech center via email to determine details of workshop as well as best location.

Customized Resources

Faculty and staff can contact the Speech Center for assistance and creation of materials utilized for oral presentation including but not limited to: speech outline templates, speech note templates, visual aid templates, etc. Those interested can contact the speech center via email.

Speech Center

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