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    There are different ways on how to improve your clarity of speech. Having clear speech requires a relaxed face and jaw. Here are a few exercises to improve the clarity of your speech. Step 1. Practice jaw exercises to enhance clarity of speech. Use a mirror to aid you in this step. Here are three exercises to help. These also help relax the jaw‚ making speech a lot clearer:  Make wide chewing motions while humming gently.  Stretch every muscle in your jaw and face. Open your mouth as wide

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    When speaking to an audience there are three things that are essential to the speech that will engage the audience: speaking loudly‚ enunciating‚ and eye contact. In addition to those three points‚ when presenting to an audience an argumentative speech it is important to also do the following: repeating phrases‚ making the points easy to follow‚ and explaining technical jargon. Gloria gave a speech on why one should not give money to the homeless and instead give to a charity or organization that

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    I was very glad with my informative speech on James Harden‚ I felt an amazing amount of confidence as I went up there and presented. I practiced a lot the night before and nights previous to that. One of the main reasons I felt that I did well is the fact that I presented without the use of notecards‚ which was a huge part of my speech as I was able to make better eye-contact with everyone around the room. I was able to pronounce and project my voice outward without fear of messing up. The confidence

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    1997:4). Pragmatics concerns with the context and function of the speaker’s utterance and how the relationship between speaker’s utterance and context or situation is. Various acts in society‚ such as representative act‚ directive‚ expressive‚ and declarative‚ indirect and direct act‚ or combination from two or more act‚ are things or interesting phenomena to be studied pragmatically. Every body experiences pragmatics acquisition since he/she is a child. In the acquisition of pragmatics children

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    GoodWhat is a speech?Speeches are talks delivered in public on formal and informal occasions.There are many types of speeches such as ’welcome speech’‚ ’thank you speech’ and ’farewell speech’. Besides‚ there are also speeches on topics of interest and social issues. The PRESENT TENSE IS USUALLY USEDwhen you write out a speech.Sample question:You are the head prefect in your school. At the beginning of the new school term‚ you have been asked to remind students about the school regulations. Write

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    Informative Speech Option For this assignment‚ you will be preparing and giving an informative speech. The speech must be about a concept‚ object‚ or event.  For example: Many students choose to do How-To speeches. In order to complete this assignment‚ you will turn in an outline and recorded speech link. For a sample outline‚ please look at pages 237-239 of your textbook. Your outline should look like the sample one in the book.

You should record your speech and upload it on youtube send me the

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    Pertinent differences between the findings of this study and those in Jiang (2006) will be discussed. 2. The speech act of suggestions in L2 pragmatics According to John Flowerdew (2013‚ p. 79)‚ when the speech act is under discussion‚ what will be concerned is “the functional‚ or communicative‚ value of utterances‚ with language used to perform actions”. Searle (1976) divided speech acts into 5 categories which are representatives (to tell people how things are)‚ directives (to get the addressee

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    The “Informative” speech went well‚ I was far less nervous giving this speech than the prior one‚ I feel it was because I am comfortable discussing Third Party Administrators. Nevertheless‚ prior to the presentation I felt good; I presented second in the class. During the presentation I felt I felt rushed. There was a lot of information to present in a short amount of time‚ besides I gave a similar speech yesterday that was an hour in a half and I have one on Thursday that is the same‚ so practicing

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    The special occasion speech I chose was Serena Williams. The speech she gave was a speech of award acceptance. The speaker spoke while maintaining eye contact with the crowd which helped them see her as trustworthy and maintain focus on the message that she wanted them to get from her speech. The movement she used was that she raised and presented her trophy to show what she had accomplished. Her voice was loud and she smiled‚ showing that she felt happy and grateful. Her speech was also inspiring

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    L14000161 Cheryl Withaneachi Assignment Completion date Issued Date Submitted on Persuasive Speech [Assignment 3] 29 October 2014[Part-time] 31 October 2014 [Full-time] Week 2 Assignment title Persuasive Speech [Social Problems] (20%) Learning Objective Learning Outcome Evidence (Page no) To provide students a platform to apply techniques of delivering a persuasive speech. Be able to develop skills as an effective public speaker through the application of necessary

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