Speech 101 Midterm Study Review Chapter 1 1. 2. 3. Ranked first among the skills of college graduated sought by employers 4. The oldest known handbook on effective speech was written on papyrus in Egypt some 4‚500 years ago. In classical Greece & Rome‚ public speaking played a central role in education and civic life. The great Roman leader Cicero used his speeches to defend liberty & wrote several works about oratory in general. In recent years‚ communication researchers have provided an
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University of Phoenix Material Public Speaking Diagnostic Questionnaire INSTRUCTIONS Answer each of the following questions in complete paragraphs of at least 150 words. QUESTIONs .1 On a scale of 1 to 10‚ with 1 equaling love it‚ and 10 equaling hate it‚ rate your feelings about speaking in front of groups. Explain your reasons for this rating. If I had to rate my feelings for speaking in front of an audience‚ I would have to say that I would give it a five on a scale from one to 10. The
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elements of speaking you hope to continue to improve on after the course 2. Then‚ for the majority of the paper‚ discuss your choices for your five major speeches (and don’t forget to include the Focus Groups!). These five speeches were: Introduction‚ Personal Narrative‚ Informative‚ Persuasive‚ and Final Speech. What does your collection of speeches reveal about your speaking in this class? Did the words flow fairly easily or was it difficult? What was your hardest and easiest speech? Most importantly
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Apprehension? Almost everyone can remember a time where they had to prepare to speak in public‚ and the nerves kick in. Often times even after preparing for the speaking engagement‚ one can relate to the common symptoms: sweaty palms‚ dry mouth‚ shaky voice‚ racing heartbeat. Communication apprehension‚ according to communicationapprehension.com‚ "[is] oth erwise known as the fear of speaking in front of a public." Although it is a very common fear‚ with a range of symptoms there are ways of coping
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example‚ when performing before a camera). In the context of public speaking‚ this fear is termed glossophobia‚ one of the most common of phobias. Such anxiety may precede or accompany participation in any activity involving public self-presentation. Performance anxiety may often be observed among such public performers as athletes and musicians. Here‚ it is manifested as a fear of "underperforming" (whether in the estimation of the viewing public or that of later critical reaction). In some cases stage
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ORAL PRESENTATION The oral SAC is your chance to showcase your public speaking skills. You are required to present a persuasive speech on a given topic. Everyone‚ even the world’s best speakers‚ gets nervous before delivering a speech…this is natural. Simply adopt a pragmatic attitude and just do it. Preparing a speech is different to writing an essay. An essay can be reread and the reader may pause to consider each point; A speech is heard once‚ therefore it requires a different craft to make maximum
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Taylor Cook COMM 101- Fundamentals of Public Speaking Audience Adaptation Paper February 18‚ 2013 In the TED video that I watched‚ the subject was about “Body Language” and was twenty-one minutes and three seconds long‚ but the speaker stopped officially talking at twenty minutes and fifty-four seconds into the video. The speaker‚ Amy Cuddy‚ had very interesting points about how a person’s power pose‚ powerful/ prideful or curled into a ball and timid‚ can influence themselves on how they think
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Print Full Name Date Speech 100 section ___ Homework Four Chapter 16 Speaking to Persuade Page 322 review questions 1-10 After reading this chapter‚ you should be able to answer the following questions: 1. What is the difference between an informative speech and a persuasive speech? Why is speaking to persuade more challenging than speaking to inform? 2. What does it mean to say that audiences engage in a mental dialogue with the speaker as they listen to a speech? What implications
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Before I knew where I wanted to go with my life I found it easy to be friends with anyone‚ just as long as we had an understanding in terms of like interests‚ common hobbies and generally just clicking until I discovered that some of those friendships were not working because we would be pulling in different directions. Friends who celebrate your successes when you succeed and comfort you when you are in need are to be preferred to those fair weather friends who will be there only when the sun is
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interest during your speech‚ presenting a rounded picture and speaking clearly and pleasantly in a conversational manner all contribute to a person being an effective oral communicator. Being prepared is of most importance when giving a speech. Know your subject. Thoroughly research your topic and prepare for possible questions. The written speech should never be memorized. You will look stiff‚ sound uninteresting and bore your audience. Memorizing is a fatal mistake. It turns the speech into a mere recitation;
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