...young people how to do something, making our opinion known at a public meeting, or commemorating special events. Course Objective: The aim of this course is to help students become a more effective and responsible speaker and listener. It will encourage them to communicate more openly in different settings (speeches, group discussion, interviews, etc.). This course will also enhance effective public speaking skills, and research methodology techniques. Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to: * differentiate between the basic forms of speeches: informative and persuasive. * become articulate in speech making * increase your confidence in your public speaking ability. * learn principles of effective public speaking. * demonstrate effective aspects of speech preparation. * apply public speaking skills to a variety of speech contexts. * apply effective research methodology skills, such as research a topic, organize information, write appropriate introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusions, acknowledge references through in-text citations and bibliography, and apply...
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... Copyright 2011 1 Informative Speech – Topic Mapping Today I would like to talk to you about _____________________________________________. Topic By examining _______________________________ , ____________________________________ , A B _________________________ , and it is my hope that you will have a better understanding C of _______________________________________________________. Topic 2 Learning activity created by: Todd L. Wirth, Ph.D. 3 Circle the most appropriate advice that Speech Bear should dispense based on the context clues. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Advance preparation Positive thinking Practice, practice, practice Learn to use an extemporaneous style of speech Avoid chemicals as stress or anxiety relievers Use movement Seeing public speaking as a conversation, not as a performance Exercises for stress/anxiety relief 4 Circle the most appropriate advice that Speech Bear should dispense based on the context clues. 1. 2...
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...1:30-3:00pm Phone: 480-965-5095 (HDSHC main office) and by appointment WELCOME TO COM 225! The purpose of this course is to enable you to better understand theories and practices of public speaking. This course is designed to improve not only your delivery techniques but also your speech-writing and persuasion abilities. Additionally, this course is arranged to develop the skills necessary for you to critically evaluate both written and spoken speeches of others and to enter the public dialogue on issues that are important to you and your life. I am confident there is much to gain from the study of public speaking. The skills developed by engaging in this course work have practical applications in each of your lives. Although your participation may take place in various forms and environments, each of you will inevitably face the task of delivering, constructing, or consuming speeches. Developing your public speaking skills will prepare you for school or work presentations, job interviews, political campaigns, community meetings, and many other situations as well. BENEFITS OF THIS COURSE The objectives of this course are to: • Improve your speech delivery • Understand the ability to create effective speeches • Improve your listening skills • Improve your ability to think critically on a variety of subjects and genres • Improve your research skills • Develop skills to analyze your own and other’s speeches ...
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...BANGALIT, VANESSA F. 03-15-16 ENGLISH4 / HCO TTH/ 9:30-11:00 INFORMATIVE SPEECH The Truth About Caffeine How many of you here consider yourself caffeine addicts? How much coffee do you drink in a day? One cup? Two cups? More? How about caffeinated sodas? Caffeine is pervasive in our society these days and every few months we hear about how a study has shown that it is bad for us or good for us. What are we to believe? Today, I'd like to give you some of the facts about caffeine and its effects on your body. I may not cause you to change your coffee consumption, but at least you'll be better informed about what you are putting into your body. I'm going to talk about the beneficial effects of caffeine, the negative effects and discuss what are considered to be 'safe' levels of caffeine consumption. Let's start with the good news. Caffeine, which comes from the leaves, seeds and fruits of about 63 different plants, is well known as a stimulant. That's why people drink it, right? Caffeine does help you wake up and feel more alert and it has been shown to increase attention spans. This is a beneficial effect for people who are driving long distances and for people who are doing tedious work. Calling this a health benefit may be stretching it, though staying awake while you are driving a car definitely contributes to your well-being! Caffeine also contains antioxidants, which have been shown to have cancer prevention qualities. The negative...
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...SAMPLE DEMONSTRATION SPEECH TOPICS (Just some Ideas) HOW TO MAKE, REPAIR OR DO…….. 1. Bartending 36. Pizza 2. Fruit Salad 37. French Toast 3. Take Blood Pressure 38. Pillows 4. Balloon Animals 39. Floating Candles 5. Dancing 40. Chili Dogs 6. Wine Serving 41. Juggle 7. Cooking recipes 42. Baseball 8. Scrapbooking 43. Backpacking 9. Transplanting Plants 44. Homemade Candles 10. Sign Language 45. Treat a Pepper Spray Victim 11. Guitar Playing 46. Prevent Hiccups 12. Put a grip on a tennis racket 47. Sew 13. Treat a rattlesnake bite 48. Flower Pens 14. Wax a Snowboard 49. Re-grip Golf Clubs 15. Manicure 50. Origami 16. First Aid 17. Apply Cosmetics 18. Napkin Folding 19. Pack for a Vacation 20. Transfer your Videos to DVD 21. Aerobics or exercising 22. Remove Stains 23. Homemade Gift Wrapping 24. Karate or Martial Arts 25. Make Christmas Ornaments 26. Modeling 27. Bird Grooming 28. Gift Baskets 29. Magnets 30. Fishing Set-Ups 31. Cleaning Musical Instruments 32. Golfing 33. Setting up an Aquarium 34. Furniture refinishing 35. Bird Calling THE DEMONSTRATION SPEECH ASSIGNMENT 1. Purpose: To demonstrate something to your audience by making, doing, or repairing something. You will not simply inform us about something, but rather show us the entire process by actually doing it. 2. Developmental Skill:...
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...A BRIEF CONTENTS PART 1 • GETTING STARTED 1. Becoming a Public Speaker 2. From A to Z: Overview of a Speech 3. Managing Speech Anxiety 4. Ethical Public Speaking 5. Listeners and Speakers 1 2 8 1 4 23 30 PART 2 • DEVELOPMENT 6. Analyzing the Audience 7. Selecting a Topic and Purpose 8. Developing Supporting Material 9. Locating Supporting Material 10. Doing Effective Internet Research 1 Citing Sources in Your Speech 1. 36 37 49 57 64 73 83 PART 3 • ORGANIZATION 1 Organizing the Speech 2. 1 Selecting an Organizational Pattern 3. 1 Outlining the Speech 4. 92 93 103 1 10 PART 4 • STARTING, FINISHING, AND STYLING 15. Developing the Introduction and Conclusion 16. Using Language 1 22 1 23 1 31 PART 5 • DELIVERY 1 Choosing a Method of Delivery 7. 18. Controlling the Voice 19. Using the Body 1 39 1 40 1 44 1 48 PART 6 • PRESENTATION AIDS 20. Types of Presentation Aids 21. Designing Presentation Aids 22. A Brief Guide to Microsoft PowerPoint 154 155 161 164 PART 7 • TYPES OF SPEECHES 23. Informative Speaking 24. Persuasive Speaking 25. Speaking on Special Occasions 1 74 1 75 188 21 7 PART 8 • THE CLASSROOM AND BEYOND 230 26. Typical Classroom Presentation Formats 27. Science and Mathematics Courses 28. Technical Courses 29. Social Science Courses 30. Arts and Humanities Courses 31. Education Courses 32. Nursing and Allied Health Courses 33. Business Courses and Business Presentations 34. Presenting in Teams 35. Communicating in Groups 231 236 240 243 246 248 25 1 253 258...
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...Traditional On Campus Class Welcome to the Traditional On Campus version of Speech 103 Oral Communication! I look forward to getting to know each of you. Over the years, I have learned that many of you dread taking this class (don’t worry I felt the same way when I had to take this class) but I hope that you will find your worries to be unfounded. I work very hard to try to create a comfortable learning environment, primarily because I need you to participate in order for this class to work. This is a participatory-based class where we will all work together to help each other improve our communication skills. Consequently, you will play an active role in your own learning as well as active role in the learning of the other students in this class. Research has shown that when you are an active participant in a class you increase how much you remember as well as how much you can recall after the semester has ended. However, I have found that when you are an active participant in my class you will look forward to coming to each class session and your fears of public speaking will soon decrease. Since this class is participatory, you will find that you will put a lot of thought and effort into this class. Much learning will occur both in class and out side of class. However, while this class is demanding, I hope that you will both enjoy this experience and learn a great deal about communication, how you communicate, and how to be a better...
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...Collaborative b) Involves Messages c) Creative d) Participatory 5. Contexts of Communication- Each context or situation has unique characteristics or features that influences how messages are used and how meanings are constructed. 6. Face-to-Face Communication- Refers to situations in which the participants who are physically or bodily present speak to one another during the interaction. 7. Mediated Communication- Refers to communication or messages that are transmitted through some type of medium. 8. Interpersonal Communication- Refers to communication with or between persons. 9. Small Group Communication- Refers to the communication among the members of a small group of people working together to achieve a common goal or purpose. 10. Public Communication- Refers to situations in which a person delivers a message to an audience. 11. Mass Communication- Refers to messages transmitted by electronic and print media to large audiences that are distant and undifferentiated. 12. Communication Metaphors- Comparing one thing to a different, usually more familiar thing. 13. Transmission Metaphor- The communication model that describes communication...
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...Chapter 1: Introducing Public Speaking Four Characteristics of Public Speaking: 1. Public speaking features communication between a speaker and an audience 2. Public speaking is audience centered 3. Public speaking emphasizes the spoken word 4. Public speaking is usually a prepared presentation What is the historical tradition of public speaking? As far back as the fifth century B.C.E., all adult male citizens in the Greek city-state of Athens had a right to speak out in the assembly and vote on proposals relating to civic matters. The ancient Greeks were the first people to think formally about rhetoric as well as a subject. Many of Aristotle’s ideas influence the study of public speaking even today. What are the main components of the transactional model of communication? How is this model different than the linear model? The linear model process involves several key elements. Specifically a person with an idea to express is the source, and the idea, that he or she conveys to the audience constitute the message. Sources communicate their messages to one or more receivers, who try to make sense of the messages by decoding. In the transactional model, the participants in a public speaking exchange seek to create a shared meaning – a common understanding with little confusion and few misinterpretations. How does critical thinking influence public speaking? When you engage in critical thinking, you carefully evaluate the evidence and...
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...Political activist, author, and holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel in his speech, “The Perils of Indifference”, informs his audience that indifference is a dangerous state and that being a bystander is just as bad as being “the killers” (paragraph 14), if not worse. He supports his claim by first illustrating his personal experiences and the reactions of American soldiers in the horrid concentration camps. In addition, Wiesel lists many instances that were similar to the inhumane treatment of the people in history, some in the distant past, some fairly recent. He also compares the world’s indifference to these situations to certain words with negative implications, such as “sin,” “punishment,” “tempting,” and “inhuman.” Wiesel’s purpose is to define the word “indifference” and bring awareness to the fact that we don’t realize our indifference. He establishes an informative and serious tone for his politically powerful audience of government...
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...BCOM 3950 PROFESSOR TERESA LOWERY FALL 2013 SPEECH OPENINGS AND CLOSINGS (SOME SUGGESTIONS) Aristotle was the first (recorded) rhetorician to name the three parts of a speech: the Introduction, the Body, and the Conclusion. Here are some suggestions about opening your Informative Speech (as well as other types of speech). Also included: Conclusions and the Question-Answer Period. Openings: 1. If you choose to begin with a humorous story, never tell a funny story for the mere sake of humor. It has to be relevant or illustrate a point. Remember: never use distasteful or insulting language. Avoid curse words. Tiptoe around body functions. Ask yourself, what does the audience think is acceptable when speaking of body fluids or private parts? Don’t tease anyone in your audience unless you are speaking at a roast. Never ever use ethnic, racial, or religious humor, unless you are making fun of yourself, which must be crystal clear to your audience. Don’t go overboard with the humor: you are a speaker not a comedian. Also: Try using a pun or play on words (a “fun” humor strategy). Example: When is a door not a door? When it’s ajar. 2. Tell a joke on yourself (called self-effacing humor); studies have shown that this almost always provokes a laugh. Depict yourself in some ridiculous or embarrassing situation. This is the very essence...
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...According to Harmer (1991: 46-47) states that when the two people are engaged in talking to each other we can be sure that they in general way to suggest that a speaker makes a define decision to address someone. Speaking may be forced on him in the way but we still say that he wants or intends to speak, otherwise he would keep silent. According to Maybin (1992: 56) says that communication is an exchange between people, knowledge, information, ideas, options, feeling so there must be concept, ideas, in the fellow speaker of what they are going to say. The speakers have a basic competence in communication their ideas. The able to communicate their ideas, the students will be given opportunity to practice their English. According to Micheal (1998: 103) language is a symbolic system used by communicators to construct and convey information. Good languages developed by a system, set of rules followed by the wearer. According to Nunan (1991: 47) Speaking is one of four skills of English. It can help people to understand something from other interlocutors of language. Speaking will be focus for the first section on speaking. It involves fluent and accuracy expression meaning, the exercising of pragmatic, or communicative, competence and the observance of the rules of appropriate. Communication is a collaboration venture in which the interlocutors negotiate meaning in order to achieve their communication. According to Widdowson (1985: 57) that speaking is an oral communication that...
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...Content Quality Assessment Related Frameworks for Social Media Kevin Chai, Vidyasagar Potdar, and Tharam Dillon Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia kevin.chai@postgrad.curtin.edu.au, {v.potdar,t.dillon}@curtin.edu.au Abstract. The assessment of content quality (CQ) in social media adds a layer of complexity over traditional information quality assessment frameworks. Challenges arise in accurately evaluating the quality of content that has been created by users from different backgrounds, for different domains and consumed by users with different requirements. This paper presents a comprehensive review of 19 existing CQ assessment related frameworks for social media in addition to proposing directions for framework improvements. Keywords: content quality assessment, social media, discussion forums, wikis, weblogs. 1 Introduction Information quality (IQ) has been widely defined in literature by its fitness for use. Existing research in the field of assessing IQ within traditional information systems is relatively mature and has led to the discovery and validation of numerous quality dimensions and metrics [2, 15, 17, 29, 35]. Knight & Burn (2005) have presented a comprehensive review of literature in the realm of assessing IQ frameworks. Common IQ dimensions that were identified from their review are presented in Table 1. The definitions of these dimensions have been included from Wang & Strong (1996)...
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... TRẦN NGỌC LYDA / 091C702029 |TOPIC 3: PUBLIC SPEAKING |OCTOBER 27 | | |2011 | TABLE OF CONTENT I Introduction………………………………..3 II Body • Sec 1: General statement about public speaking …........................................3 • Sec 2: The important role of public speaking, and difficulties………….....3 • Sec 3: How to prepare a good speech………………………………………......4 • Sec 4: how to improve public speaking skill………………………………8 III Conclusion…………………………..……….12 IV Reference list……………………………...13 INTRODUCTION C an you think of any memorable talk or presentation you have ever attended? It is sad to know that most of the presentations are easy to forget, especially when the main reason behind the presentation was to communicate something to you. Therefore, it is important to know how to transfer effectively the information to the others. Moreover, the world is open and nations are integrated together. Hence, exchange information and negotiation is very important. Obviously, communication is the most essential skill at the moment, specifically public speaking. Public...
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...B) vocal and visual codes C) verbal and vocal codes D) visual and verbal codes Points Earned: 1.0/1.0 4. All of the following are considered part of the speech environment except: A) the time of day B) the number of people in the audience C) the topic D) the location Points Earned: 1.0/1.0 5. A listener's verbal, visual, and vocal responses to a speaker's message are known as: A) noise B) the listener's frame of reference C) the speaker's frame of reference D) feedback Points Earned: 1.0/1.0 6. When you evaluate and modify your behavior until it meets your personal expectations, you are engaged in: A) feedback B) decoding C) self-monitoring D) encoding Points Earned: 1.0/1.0 7. According to Gallup Poll surveys cited in the text, which of the following were rated highest in ethical standards in 2006? A) insurance salespeople B) journalists C) stockbrokers D) nurses Points Earned: 1.0/1.0 8. Using someone else's ideas without giving that person credit for the idea is known as: A) distortion B) Embellishment C) exaggeration D) plagiarism Points Earned: 1.0/1.0 9. Speeches that primarily celebrate values and lend a sense of distinction to an event are usually: A) persuasive speeches B) informative speeches C) entertaining speeches...
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