Week CCC Part 5: Private Covert Rehearsal Practicing Conversations Rubric Part 5: Private Covert Rehearsal Practicing Conversations Alone in Your Imagination Possible Points Points Earned 5A. Choose one or more behaviors listed in CCC Part 4E and write a detailed narrative that identifies your communication event. Write a description of your physical surrounding that affected your rehearsal? · Name people involved · What you will talk about · Where & when it takes place · How it should occur · Why you need to plan for the next conversation · How will your physical surroundings affect your rehearsal 15 points 5B. Plan and write down your nonverbal and verbal behaviors and responses, including your own planned behaviors, responses and planned reactions of everyone in the communication event. 5 points 5C. Reflect on your experience with a paragraph or two to address your observations and reactions to the private covert rehearsal experience. · How did you feel at first as you prepared for your private covert rehearsal? · How did you feel after you finished it? · What behaviors or patterns did you use from Part 4E? Did you notice any new behaviors or patterns that you have not noted previously? 10 points Part 6: Practice Behaviors and your responses in the Behavior Rehearsal 6A. Role play with friend or family member not involved in the communication problem. Practice a few times with and without script. Write a detailed narrative of what happened in the rehearsal. · What did you do? · How were your behaviors received? · How satisfied were you with your performance of the behaviors in your goal from Part 4E? 10 points 6B1. Reflect on the rehearsal experience and write a paragraph or two to address your observations and reactions to the shared behavior rehearsal experience. · How did you choose your shared behavior rehearsal partner? · Does he or she know about the person or situation being focused on for your CCC goal? · Does he or she normally offer guidance and advice in a trustworthy manner already in your established relationship with this person? 10 points 6B2. Reflect and write a paragraph or two to address your observations and reactions to the shared behavior rehearsal experience as far as planning is concerned. · Did your shared behavioral rehearsal go as planned, or was it totally different than you imagined it would be? · How did you feel at first as you prepared for your shared behavioral rehearsal? · How did you feel after you finished it? · What behaviors or patterns did you use from Part 4E? · Did you notice any new behaviors or patterns that you have not noted previously? 10 points TOTAL: 60 points Instructor Comments: 1 Sample Outline Format Note: The outline you submit should be one MS Word document inclusive of the outline, references page and description of visuals. Speech Title: A creative title will add to audience interest. General Purpose: Is it to i.

1. Week CCC Part 5: Private Covert Rehearsal Practicing
Conversations Rubric
Part 5: Private Covert Rehearsal Practicing Conversations Alone
in Your Imagination
Possible Points
Points Earned
5A. Choose one or more behaviors listed in CCC Part 4E and
write a detailed narrative that identifies your communication
event. Write a description of your physical surrounding that
affected your rehearsal?
· Name people involved
· What you will talk about
· Where & when it takes place
· How it should occur
· Why you need to plan for the next conversation
· How will your physical surroundings affect your rehearsal
15 points
5B. Plan and write down your nonverbal and verbal behaviors
and responses, including your own planned behaviors, responses
and planned reactions of everyone in the communication event.
5 points

2. 5C. Reflect on your experience with a paragraph or two to
address your observations and reactions to the private covert
rehearsal experience.
· How did you feel at first as you prepared for your private
covert rehearsal?
· How did you feel after you finished it?
· What behaviors or patterns did you use from Part 4E? Did you
notice any new behaviors or patterns that you have not noted
previously?
10 points
Part 6: Practice Behaviors and your responses in the Behavior
Rehearsal
6A. Role play with friend or family member not involved in the
communication problem. Practice a few times with and without
script. Write a detailed narrative of what happened in the
rehearsal.
· What did you do?
· How were your behaviors received?
· How satisfied were you with your performance of the
behaviors in your goal from Part 4E?
10 points
6B1. Reflect on the rehearsal experience and write a paragraph

3. or two to address your observations and reactions to the shared
behavior rehearsal experience.
· How did you choose your shared behavior rehearsal partner?
· Does he or she know about the person or situation being
focused on for your CCC goal?
· Does he or she normally offer guidance and advice in a
trustworthy manner already in your established relationship
with this person?
10 points
6B2. Reflect and write a paragraph or two to address your
observations and reactions to the shared behavior rehearsal
experience as far as planning is concerned.
· Did your shared behavioral rehearsal go as planned, or was it
totally different than you imagined it would be?
· How did you feel at first as you prepared for your shared
behavioral rehearsal?
· How did you feel after you finished it?
· What behaviors or patterns did you use from Part 4E?
· Did you notice any new behaviors or patterns that you have
not noted previously?
10 points
TOTAL:
60 points
Instructor Comments:

4. 1
Sample Outline Format
Note: The outline you submit should be one MS Word
document inclusive of the outline, references page and
description of visuals.
Speech Title: A creative title will add to audience interest.
General Purpose: Is it to inform? To persuade? To entertain?
To mark a special occasion?
Specific Purpose: A specific statement of what you expect to
accomplish with your speech - your desired outcome.
Introduction: Grabs the attention of the audience, presents a
topic of the speech and tells the audience the major points of
your speech.
A. Attention Getter: grab the attention of the audience- ideas
include:
Use a famous quotation; tell a story, real or hypothetical; pose
questions, rhetorical or directed; make a startling statement; use
suspense; make a personal reference; use humor
B. Thesis Statement: The thesis is a single sentence that
summarizes your message. Every other part of your speech
should support your thesis statement.
Credibility: Somewhere early in the presentation, typically
after the thesis statement, but before the preview statement, it

5. will be important to establish credibility as a speaker.
Credibility can be established through reference to your own
expertise on the topic and/or through making verbal reference to
the sources of your support. This persuades the audience that
you are "trustworthy" enough to speak about the subject, which
is critical to your success.
You should continue to make references to your credibility
throughout the speech to maintain that perception, but it is most
important near the start. Body: Contains the main points of
your speech and is where you focus on the details; here your
intent is to provide all the necessary evidence to explain and
support your points.
Preview Statement: Here you preview your main points, which
should be stated using parallel language.
Tie to the audience: Somewhere early in the presentation,
typically after the preview statement, but before the first main
point, it will be important to tie the topic to the audience. Why
should they be interested in what you have to say? Why is it
important to them?
You should continue to tie the material to your audience
throughout the presentation to maintain the importance of the
material, but it is most important near the start.
A. Main Point #1: You should have between 2 and 5 main
points in the body of your speech, which will be supported by
the subordinate points below.
1. The bulk of your speech will be support.
a. Support should be outlined following the conventions of
outlining

6. b. Your outline should be of sufficient detail
2. The number of support points and sub-points in your outline
will vary.
a. Be sure to read the text about the different types of outlines.
b. It is important that you use subordination to effectively
demonstrate relationships between ideas.
B. Main Point #2
Supporting materials illustrate the main points by clarifying,
elaborating and verifying the speaker’s ideas.
C. Main Point #3
In addition, supporting materials may add a vivid mental picture
for the audience that makes the message more intense, striking
or intense, hence, more memorable.
III. Conclusion: Summarizes the main points, stresses the most
important details and provides closure, providing a lasting
impact on the audience.
A. Summary: This is where you review the main points.
B. Closure: Providing a sense of closure to your presentation is
important as this is the last thing the audience will hear. If the
audience has to guess whether the speech is over you have
failed. Leave a lasting impression by closing with impact.
Transitions: Be sure to use transitions between main points,
when introducing new speakers and to demonstrate relationships
between ideas in your sub points. Transitions are sentences or
phrases that help your audience to follow the format of your
speech.

7. Per the written assignment, you need to submit a description of
your visuals and reference page, in addition to a detailed
outline.
Description of Visuals: I am looking for you to tell me why you
chose to include what you included on each slide. Review the
slide functions in the Week 5 lecture for more information.
How does it enhance the audience’s understanding of the
material?
How does it add an element of vividness of your speech?
You might say...
Slide 1: Title slide: A title slide is important because...
Slide 2: Main point 1 along with a picture of XYZ: Main points
are the one thing you want the audience to take away from the
presentation so repeating them visually helps to accomplish
that. The picture was important because....
Reference Page: Using APA format, include all references used
to support your presentation.
Outline Rubric
Outline Criteria
Explanation
PointsThesis Statement

8. The thesis/controlling idea is clearly stated. It is a complete
sentence and reflects the topic and purpose of the presentation.
15
Format,
Organization
The outline follows the traditional format and conventions of
outlining described in the text. Each Roman Numeral is a point
of the thesis/controlling idea. Capital letters develop the points
of each Roman Numeral. Numbers develop the points of each
capital letter. (It is also acceptable to make the Introduction and
Conclusion separate parts of the Roman Numerals.) Ideas are
clearly arranged with an identifiable pattern.
30
Content,
Research
Main points of the speech are amply supported by specific
research. Research is of sufficient variety (statistics, examples,
comparisons, quotations, etc.). The outline is written in detail,
whether it uses complete sentences or phrases. It includes all
points of the speech.

9. 30
Description of Visual Aids
A description of how the visuals (images in the PowerPoint
slides) enhance the presentation should follow the outline. The
student(s) should consider how the visual helps the audience
understand the concepts developed in the speech.
15
References
Using APA format, include all references used to support your
presentation. References go on a page by themselves and
appear in alphabetical order with hanging indents. The title of
this section should be References with no bold or indentation.
10
Total Possible:

10. 100
Your Total: