English Professor, Public-Speaking Coach, and Workshop Leader
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Karen Wink Services Speech Writing, Speech Coaching, Public Speaking

Services

 

Workshops


Workshop Topics include:

  • Public speaking for professional or personal occasions
  • Reading Strategies for fiction/non-fiction texts
  • Writing Persuasively
  • Improving Grammar, Punctuation, and Other Conventions to Accommodate Audiences
  • Commenting on student drafts (audio and written)
  • Teaching Shakespeare

Contact Karen about a workshop here.

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Speech coaching

Public speaking can be both challenging and exciting. Karen as assisted hundreds of students and professionals with public speaking. She offers supportive assistance with writing and practicing (via Skype or Facetime) for important personal or professional occasions. Ex. celebrations, toasts, eulogies, commencement, ceremonies, sales pitches, and more. Karen uses a user-friendly rhetorical approach (audience, purpose, message, and context) to frame speech--ensuring an effective outcome. 

Available for speech coaching on weekends.


 

Examples of Karen's speech coaching

Joe Sullivan-Springhetti, 2013:

NEW LONDON, Conn. -- First Class Cadet Joseph Sullivan-Springhetti addresses fellow cadets at the 2013 U.S. Coast Guard Academy Commencement Ceremony May 22, 2013. U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Diana L. Honings.

 

Joe Sullivan-Springhetti

He was voted one of the "Top 10 College Graduation Speakers in the Country"

Read more about it here


 

Justin Sherman, 2015

Class of 2015 Distinguished Graduate Justin P. Sherman speaks at the United States Coast Guard Academy's commencement exercises.

 

Contact Karen about speech coaching here.

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