...Persuasive Speech Reflective For my persuasive speech, I was not really satisfied with few parts. First of all, it is my grammar mistakes of the speech. As an international student, language is the first problem when I communicate with people. Even though I made draft of my persuasive speech, I did not remember anything when I stood in front of camera. Especially, I had to give the speech for more than 5 minutes, so I could not avoid making grammar mistakes. Secondly, I could stop making sounds like: en, ah, etc.… The reason of it is my intense emotions. I had this big issue for all my three speeches. Even though this intense emotion decreased at the third speech, I still need to pay attention to overcoming this problem. However, I also improved some parts at the third speech. Compared with the first speech, I believe that my persuasive speech´s transitions became smoother. I also tried to make some creative point for my third speech as well. I set up the background of speech as the first time when I met the clients at the Starbucks, so it could make the persuasive sound more natural. This class gave me a good experience about giving public speech. I remembered the process from my first speech to the third speech. I knew that I made so many mistakes from these speeches. At the same time, I believe that I improved a lot from making mistakes. It is an interesting class, and I enjoy what I learn from...
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...Annotated Bibliography Tesa S. Malone EN 116: Speech Herzing University The article in Renting Versus Buying a Home, states that when considering buying a home, determining the annual rent to the purchase price ratio is very important. As far as taxes go when becoming a homeowner mortgage interest and property tax can be deducted from your taxes. Although the author is anonymous, this source is credible because it is recent and scholarly. (Renting versus buying a home. (2015)....
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...Persuasive Speech Preparation Worksheet Name Summer Mellert Section Persuasive Speech 1. What is the topic of your speech? Texting and driving. 2. Are you speaking on a question of fact, value, or policy? Fact 3. What is your specific purpose statement? To persuade my audience to not text while drivingand pay more attention to the road. 4. Can you answer yes to all the questions on the Specific Purpose Checklist on page 87 of your textbook? Yes 5. Is your speech meant to achieve passive agreement or immediate action from your audience? Passive agreement. 6. What is your central idea? Today, I will discuss reasons why you should not text and drive, the consequences of what can happen when you do text and drive, and some statistics showing the injury and fatality rate of this dangerous act. 7. Can you answer yes to all the questions on the Central Idea Checklist on page 92 of your textbook? Yes 8. What is the target audience for your speech? How will you adapt your speech to be persuasive to your target audience? Be specific. My target audience is everyone who currently texts and drives or knows someone who does it. 9. What method(s) of gaining attention do you use in the introduction? Presenting the audience with facts about texting and driving along with using visual aids and outcomes of texting while driving. Pjlskj 10. How do you establish your credibility in the introduction? I establish...
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...After reading the this weeks reading and reviewing lecture 2 I definitely pulled away some key information that I want to learn from. Speaking persuasive can be very difficult to someone as they may have already made up their mind and thoughts on a specific topic and do not want to sway their opinion. In the lecture it talked about being a effect christian persuasive speaker. It reminded me that no matter how passionate I am about something I should never mislead them or to leave out any important information. It is always important to make the audience aware of anything that could possible happen. It also brought to my attention about the most common fallacies. This is something to keep and mind to make sure I do not do in my speech. Especially when coming to evidence and logic, it is easy to find things that aren't true on the internet....
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...are to be done. This is when we will appreciate those core classes that the college made us take. By taking the required core classes in college, you pay for your degree while getting extra education that can help you in the future. You can figure out if you have different interests before paying for a complete degree. Also, core classes can help you to understand and achieve more in your daily college classes to get your degree. Every day you have to use the skills of talking to people, and sometimes you even have to write to people. Having a job, you have to communicate with your co-workers, your boss, and maybe even outside sources. For example, if you were working on a construction site and you had to give instructions to your co-workers, you would want to be very informative and descriptive with what you needed them to do, or whatever you were supposed to build could come out completely wrong. Core classes in college such as speech and English can help you greatly in this department just as Sara Rajan talks about in her discussion over the core courses that can help you throughout life: For instance, public speaking courses offered at Stanford University focus on various elements for giving an effective speech, such as improving both formal and informal communication skills, learning to effectively compose a persuasive speech, and learning to clearly articulate your ideas. These skills are not only necessary for success in college, but in your prospective career as well....
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...people. The audience paid good attention when I was doing the speech. If I have another chance to do the speech, I will do better on the part attention gather, speak more loudly and clearly. I would maintain the good eyes contact. II. Commemorative Speech: I did not do well on this speech because of the content of the speech. I most likely like an information speech than a commemorative speech. During the speech, I was using so many of “ah uhm”. I would more carefully prepare the speech with the right topic. I would keep the cute style of delivering the speech and good eyes contact. I had improved a little bit on the voice and the volume when I speak. III. Demonstration Speech: I did a best demonstration. The audience paid good attention when I was doing the speech. I have a little problem that I didn’t make eyes contact for a while when I was more concentrate on the cooking. I would pay more attention on the eyes contact next time I do my speech. I have prepared well for the speech. I was nervous because I have to talk while demonstrate the cooking. This speech is the most perfect one that I did over all. IV. Delivery Video Clip: It was a short speech but I did a pretty good job on preparing a good video clip. The right video clip of a little speech of the good speaker. V. Persuasive speech: I didn’t do well on this speech over all. I got a long pause while doing the speech. I did not prepare well for the speech. My weakness is that I couldn’t talk out loud what I wanted...
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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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...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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...From expository speeches on Beyonce to persuasive speeches on tomatoes this unit has been both exciting and tense. This unit has taught me how to apply rhetorical devices to effectively present the purpose and thesis. The effectiveness was then later reinforced by professional presentation conventions such as: visual aids and intentional pauses. In previous english courses, rhetorical device were only vaguely introduced. Without this prior knowledge, I did not fully understand how presenters structured and built their arguments. Going over Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X’s speech taught me that rhetorical devices are not only used for stylistic purposes, but used to illustrate the speech’s purpose and thesis. In Malcolm X’s, “Ballot...
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...Nick Taupier GEO Persuasive Speech on Truth If you say no to your boss, or your girlfriend or boyfriend, or your mother, when it needs to be said, then you transform yourself into someone who can say no. If you say yes when no needs to be said, however, you transform yourself into someone who can only say yes, even when it’s very clearly time to say no. If you ever have wondered why ordinary and decent people end up doing terrible things like the camp guards at Auschwitz, you have your answer. By the time no seriously needed to be said, there was no one left capable of saying it. One way of conceptualizing yourself is that you're one speck of dust among 7 billion. And when you think that way you might say, well what difference does it...
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...it was hard for him to win over the white majority of the audience. The speech was used to give the idea how bad slavery was by using persuasive techniques. Douglass used many techniques such as rhetorical questions and Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. Logical claims and statements made by Douglass. Douglass is giving a logical point of view about the situation. Douglass states “There are seventy-two crimes in the state of Virginia, which, if committed by a black man (no matter how ignorant he be), subject him to the punishment of death; while only two of these same crimes will subject a white man to the like punishment.” The quote...
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...Jamarcus Hillard Mr. Linder Oral Communication 14 January 2016 What is an American? Harold Ickes was successful in presenting his speech by using great rhetorical devices appealing to his audience logically, emotionally, and ethics. As I read Harold Ickes’s speech the words summed up the emotion of the time so perfectly. The time was when Hitler and the Nazi army was headed for world domination. His intents were to influence American citizen to unite as a country. Ethos is one factor in creating the appeals of Harold Ickes’ speech. "We should be clear on this point. What is convulsing the world today is not merely another old-fashioned war. It is a counter revolution against our ideas and ideals, against our sense of justice and our human values." Saying this, Ickes makes it not just a dispute between nations, but a fight between human morals, right and wrong. Ickes uses pathos in his speech to create feelings in the crowd that will make them a want to protect their nation. Ickes started the speech with intense language and ideas that are corrosive nearly insulting to the listeners. “Why have some of us been behaving like scared chickens?” he questions. “Scared chickens” causes the audience to hesitate. “For years it has been dinned into us that we are a weak nation; that we are an inefficient people; that we are simple-minded. For years we have been told that we are beaten, decayed, and that no part of the world belongs to us any longer.” These statements use pathos to cause...
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...The persuasive speech that I watched online was given by a recently graduated high school student named Elijah Miles in Baltimore City of Maryland. Elijah is a summer intern at Teach for America and was delivering his inspiring speech to a group of incoming teachers at the institute. Elijah speech was all about making a change on the way incoming teachers taught the youth in not only his former high school but also schools in his city. At the beginning of the speech Elijah stated that he had a hard time preparing for his speech because he didn’t want to disagree with people and wasn’t sure if he was in the right to say what he was going to say. However, he wanted to convert the teaching ways of incoming teachers. He then states how he just...
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...HRM Application Case 15-1 Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining 1. Evaluate the various claims made by the union and counterclaims made by the company regarding the changes of unfair labor practices. Which of the arguments are most persuasive? From the union’s position, the arguments that are most persuasive are: b. threatening employees with deprivation of benefits if the union should be elected to represent them, and e. promising to pay and paying employees for certain medical benefits to discourage them from supporting the union. I also a agree with the union’s claim that the violations were so severe and pervasive that it would be impossible to have a fair rerun election in the climate created by the company’s action. From the company’s position, I do not believe any argument is very convincing but I guess there is a chance that the company management was unaware of the telephone calls and other questioning of employees conducted by its former supervisor Larry Melton. This is the only argument that I feel would be slightly valid. 2. Was the statement by Nord to Snow on the date of the representational election a threat or a legitimate prediction and personal opinion protected by the free speech provisions of the act? I think that the statement by Nord to Snow was in fact a threat. He expressed to her that if the union won the election, the employer would take the rent-free apartments away from the janitors’ helpers and charge the head janitors for the...
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...Term paper of general linguistics The introduction of sociolinguistics Sociolinguistics is one of the micro-linguistics which concentrates its attention on the changes and developments of language. It is, first and foremost concerned with the different variations and their derivative phenomena and tries to provide reasonable explanations to them. Sociolinguistics has two major concerns. On the one hand, sociolinguistics pays much attention to the relationship between language and society so the relevant language phenomena include stylistic variation, social variation, idiolect variation and regional variation, because those language variations have their own process of developments and linguistic values. On the other hand, sociolinguistics centers on the relationship between language and culture and has produced a new discipline, cross-culture communication. Because one culture’s meat is another culture’s poison, the different thinking patterns, value systems and cultural peculiarities are most interesting topics for scholars in this field. Language and gender Language and gender is one of the foci of sociolinguistics. Its theoretical ground comes from the inequality reflected in male-dominated society. Broadly-speaking, females have been subordinated to their male counterparts in social, economic and political fields. Females are, to some extent, marginalized in social affairs. This unjust situation may be seen as a kind of sexual discrimination. However this...
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