...Speaker evaluation by Jerome Reinholt. Speech: “How To Stay Calm When You Know You’ll Be Stressed” by Daniel Levitin (YouTube) 1. How does the speaker open speech? What works well in their introduction? The speaker opens the speech with a story about being locked out of his house in Canada when it’s forty degrees outside. What works well with his introduction is his humorous story about being locked out of his house and having to break his basement window to get inside his house. 2. How is the speech organized? Does it flow smoothly? The speech, in my opinion was not that organized and did not flow smoothly. It was a speech that started with the topic of basic home organization; then went into detailed health issues; and then ended with a mention of the speakers opening remark about how home organization will help the speaker in the future. 3. What are the main points and are they clear? The main points of the speech were….? I am still not sure of the main points. It was very unclear what the main points of this speech were. I honestly feel he was called upon to speak to fill in for someone else at the last minute. He gave a speech, but it was a rambling talk. He had zero visual aids even though several huge screens were available for possible power point presentations. 4. What facts, quotes, stats, or stories does the speaker includes? The speaker gave facts, quotes, stats, etc. such as: GlaxoSmithKlein estimates that 90 percent of drugs work in...
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...Speaker Evaluation I attended “The Speak Up!!” event at the little theatre in Chabot College. It was on May 15, 2014 at 6:00pm. The Chabot College Forensics Team hosted this event. The stage where the speakers were performing was in the center of the theatre. There were rows of seats surrounding three sides of the stage. The audience was mostly a young crowd of Chabot students. The audience seemed to enjoy the speeches. The Duo Interpretation of Literature speech seemed to be the crowd’s favorite. There were a total of six speeches through out the event. My favorite speech was delivered by Franciska Karpovich. She delivered a Persuasive Speech about Gender Shaming. The speech focused on “Slut Shaming”. She spoke about the psychological effects of Slut Shaming. The purpose of her speech was to persuade her audience to boycott stores like Victoria Secret and Abercrombie and Fitch for over sexualizing young girls. She also suggested for schools to start teaching boys how to treat girls. Karpovich claims that girls are bullied for drinking too much and that they are embarrassed of their sexuality. She used current issues about boys taking advantage of girls while they were intoxicated as evidence to support her claims. She talked about people taking sexual assault as a joke because the victims are accused of provoking the boys. According to Korpavich, people think promiscuous girls are worthless. She blames the media for sexualizes girls and eventually leads to slut shaming. ...
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...University of Phoenix Material Individual Speech Evaluation Form Speaker ____________________________________________________ Topic ______________________________________________________ 5-Excellent 4-Good 3-Average 2-Fair 1-Poor | | | | | |Introduction | |Delivery: Voice and body language | | |Gained attention and interest |5 4 3 2 1 |Began speech without rushing |5 4 3 2 1 | |Introduced topic clearly |5 4 3 2 1 |Maintained strong eye contact |5 4 3 2 1 | |Established credibility |5 4 3 2 1 |Avoided distracting mannerisms |5 4 3 2 1 | |Previewed body of speech |5 4 3 2 1 |Articulated words clearly |5 4 3 2 1 | | | |Used pauses effectively |5 4 3 2 1 | |Body | |Used vocal variety to add effect |5 ...
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...begins, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both, And be one traveler, long I stood, And looked down one as far as I could, To where it bent in the undergrowth;” Clearly the speaker is faced with a decision. He is out for a morning walk in the autumn woods when he comes to a fork in the road. He stops and contemplates which road to take, looking down one road as far as he can see. The second stanza reads, “Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear, Though as for that the passing there, Had worn them really about the same,” The speaker thinks long and hard about which road is the right one for him to take; expressing his indecisiveness and the importance of making the right choice for himself. He decides to take the road that looked as if it had been less traveled but, upon further evaluation he realizes that both roads are “about the same.” In the third stanza the speaker continues to speculate the differences between the two roads. He notices that both roads are covered with freshly fallen leaves and look as if they have not been traveled, “And both that morning equally lay, in leaves no step had trodden black.” He is sorry he cannot take both roads. Therefore, the speaker claims that he will come back and take the other road another day but, then he comes to the realization that he will never get to experience where the other road leads. He realizes that life sometimes gets...
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...Practical Benefits: Controlling your communication anxiety Expressing your ideas with power and conviction Personal Benefits: Learning more about yourself Expanding your cultural horizons 2. Ethnocentrism- Our tendency to presume that our own cultural ways of seeing and doing things are the proper standard and that other such world views and behavior are at best suspect and at worst inferior. 3. Stereotypes-Those generalized assumptions that supposedly represent the essential nature of races, genders, religious affiliations, sexual orientations, and so on. 4. If you want commitment to last, you must be able to show that your arguments are based on sound, logical interpretations of reality. 5. Speaker Message Occasion Setting Audience Interference Feedback Chapter 2: 1. Communication Anxiety - the fear or anxiety associated with real or anticipated communication with others (Ex. A student being nervous to present in front of the class) Reality Testing- you subject the negative aspects of the movie in your head to rational scrutiny. To see things realistically you have to stand back from your emotions and look for answers to three basic questions: What has actually happen in the past? What is the worst thing that’s actually likely to happen? How bad would it be if it did happen? (Ex. “I’ll be so scared I’ll pass out.” Have you ever passed out from fear? Is this Likely to happen? How bad would this be? What’s the consequence...
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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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...CHAP 1 1. The process of choosing language or nonverbal behaviors to convey your message is known as: A) stimulating B) motivating C) encoding D) decoding Points Earned: 1.0/1.0 2. The process of determining exactly what a speaker's language or nonverbal behavior means is known as: A) feedback B) encoding C) monitoring D) decoding Points Earned: 1.0/1.0 3. When adults attempt to determine the meaning of a statement, they rely most heavily on the: A) all three codes about equally 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:...
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...first because I feel that any audience member should feel a connection between them and the speaker whether or not they agree or disagree with the speaker. And the way I display this connection with the audience is through the types of immediacy such as verbal immediacy, nonverbal immediacy, technological influences on immediacy, and cultural influences on immediacy. In my first speech of the class, Any Old Bag Speech, I focused on getting the audience to me and like me for who I am. When I watched the speech on acclaim I realized that I used a form of verbal immediacy. Verbal immediacy directly relates to judgments of a speaker’s competence and character and includes the use of personal examples, humor, addressing others by first name and asking questions that solicit viewpoints or opinions. Using humor and personal examples in the speech certainly helped me relax because I could tell the audience was enjoying my speech instead of nodding off due to boredom. It also gave me confidence in my ability to speak in front of people, which is one of the main purposes of this course. My informative speech was a bit of struggle trying to find the connection with audience because the topic I chose. I could tell by the way that some of the audience were sitting that I was lacking immediacy. The nonverbal immediacy, which describes nonverbal behaviors that communicate liking, a positive evaluation of others, or positive affect to others, made it clear that most of the audience felt no connection...
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...The ability to listen more effectively may be acquired through discipline and practice. As a listener one should physically and mentally prepare yourself for the communication. We must be physically relaxed and mentally alert to receive and understand the message. Effective listening requires sustained concentration (regardless of the length of the message), attention to the main ideas presented, note-taking (if the conditions are appropriate), and no emotional blocks to the message by the listener. You cannot listen passively and expect to retain the message. If you want to be an effective listener, you must give the communicator of the message sufficient attention and make an effort to understand his viewpoint. Guides to Effective Listening Skills Here are some practical suggestions for effective listening which, if followed, can appreciably increase the effectiveness of this communicative skill. Realize that listening is hard work. It is characterized by faster heart action, quicker blood circulation, and a small rise in body temperature. Researchers have found that the higher we climb on the organizational ladder, the more difficult listening becomes. In day-to-day conversations, show the communicator you are interested by looking and acting like you are. Prepare to listen. To receive the message clearly, the receiver must have the correct mental attitude. In your daily communications, establish a permissive environment for each communicator. Recognize your own biases...
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...seminar goes on. The prayer that was led by one of its member made the start of the seminar in good atmosphere. Even the singing of our national anthem was nice. The creativity of the group was shown with the way they arrange and decorated the rooms were the seminar was held. It was simple but very attractive to the eye of the audience. The only thing that I noticed that was quite not good was the seminar wasn’t smooth flowing. There are unwanted interruptions that cause the audience to wait. I commend the speakers for they did their best in leading the said seminar but I noticed that there were quite some time that they’ve forgotten the next thing to do that causes another delay to the continuity of the seminar. But if I will be asked if it was successful or not, for me it is definitely a successful one. The speaker has a good poise and I noticed that the audience really listened well unto what the speaker is saying. I also salute the group for having such a admirable speaker with her experience in the said field, she was able to discuss in a good way the experiences she had and the things we must consider before we decide to enter a certain field of nursing. I was amazed with how dedicated she was in her 17 years in the service. The seminar that the group conducted gave us the whole picture of what to expect if we enter military nursing. To end this, I commend the group for I know they have worked hard for this like how the other group did. TEAM= Together Everyone Achieves...
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...My Lips Have Kissed” In the poem “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, there is a theme of loneliness and regret. The speaker is a woman looking back with melancholy reflection to the days of her youth when her life was full of hope and the promise of love. She remembers she once had lovers but she cannot recall them individually. Now she is alone left with only regret: for the unremembered faces of her past, for the passing of her youth, and for the loneliness of her life now. The speaker regrets her inability to remember “What lips [her] lips have kissed” (Line 1). No special man or moment comes to her mind. Her memories of her former glory days haunt her. Although she cannot recall any of her lovers in particular, she hears them as she listens to the rain; unclear faces in her mind like “ghosts…that tap and sigh / Upon the glass” (ll. 3-4). Her heart aches for the “unremembered lads” that had once shared her bed. (l.7). She regrets her youth is now behind her. She compares herself to the seasons with her youth as “summer” (l.13) which is warm and green. Now she is in the time of “winter” (l.9), stark, bleak, and dreary. Those days when she was young and carefree she thought would last forever; but looking back, they seemed to have lasted only “a little while”(14). The speaker is alone: “In winter stands the lonely tree” (l.9). She cannot remember “What loves have come and gone” (l.12). She did not find that one special person...
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...deal with stress, grief, loss, risk, and other difficulties. The reader is able to see that something throughout the marriage wasn’t good by interpreting line 12 "And by the fire and smoke of our nights", which shows they didn’t have peaceful nights. In line one “You thought I was that type”, the speaker is saying that someone took the wrong perception of her character by basing it off of things that wasn’t true ending up taking her for someone she really wasn’t. In line two “that you could forget me”, the speaker is saying that they couldn’t ever forget her since they made up their own view of what role she played in their life. In line three “and that I’d plead and weep and throw myself”, the speaker is saying that she tried to do everything she could think of to make herself be the one for this person but nothing would work so in result she was in sorrow. In line four, “under the hooves of a bay mare”, the speaker is saying that she would try to hide herself from all the pain she had the best way she could. In the next stanza the speaker goes on to explain what she needed and wanted to do in the situation throughout the poem. In line five, “or that I’d ask the sorcerers”, the speaker is saying that she didn’t know the answers to the questions she had so she would ask someone who is believed or claims to have magical...
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...How does Aaron Hill use memory to combine generalised moralising with personalised lament in the poem in list B? Use close reading to support your points. In the poem ‘Alone, in an Inn, at Southampton’, by Aaron Hill, the speaker recounts the memories he once shared with his wife whilst staying in a room at a guesthouse before her death. He is now writing as a widower in the same room twenty years later and he expresses his feelings of anguish by projecting specific memories of his wife on to objects within the room, before going on to make broad statements on morality and the vices of life. The poem could be said to be split into three parts, the first section being the speakers lament for his wife, the second section outlining his now changed philosophical outlook on life, and the third detailing his resolution which concludes the poem. This essay aims to show, through close reading, how the protagonist of the poem combines his personal memories and feelings of sorrow with his own general moralising about life’s hardships. The first section of the poem begins as a simple lament, as the speaker remembers his wife and the happiness she brought him and contrasts it with the emptiness and loneliness which he feels now in her absence: “Twenty lost years have stoln their hours away, Since, in this inn, ev’n in this room, I lay: How chang’d! what then was rapture, fire, and air, Seems now sad silence all, and blanc despair!” In the opening lines, Hill describes...
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...written by Elizabeth Bishop about her own story when she catches a huge fish while she is in a rented boat. After she catches the fish, she holds it up half out of the water. The fish looks pretty ugly, tired, and old with “shapes like full-blown roses, stained and lost through age” (lines 14-15). Algae is growing on it, and she realizes that the fish has five fishing hooks with the lines still partially attached hanging from its jaw. The speaker start to think how tough this fish must be and how much the fish probably fought through his life to survive. She begins to respect the fish. The story takes a final turn when she lets the fish go. The Theme of the poem is that great lessons can be learned from simple situations in life like a normal day fishing in the ocean. At first the speaker says “I caught a tremendous fish” (1). That is a simple description, then the speaker gives some detail about the fish and how it looks “his brown skin hung like strips like ancient wall-paper”. At this point, the fish is nothing special. After that, the speaker begins to examine the fish more closely, and she imagines the inside of the fish “dramatic reds and blacks,”(30) and a “pink swim-bladder.”(32) The fact that she is using her imagination in connection with the fish implied that the fish has a meaning behind simply being caught. The narrator learned from the persistence and dedication that the fish has. The fish has been caught five time as his fishing hooks shows, and he has survived....
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...exploited based on her gender is the essay’s central irony. Brand offers a narrative structure that allows the reader to empathize with the speaker—to experience an emotional response that reflects that of the speaker. She accomplishes this response by withholding information until a crucial moment, by varying sentence length and control to reflect emotions, and by repeating certain images throughout the essay. [Thesis statement] Brand opens her essay by outlining the series of events that lead her to seek employment at an office on Keele Street in Toronto. She recounts how she secures—by telephone—an interview for the following day; she then recounts her careful preparations for the interview and her arrival at the office on the day of the interview. Suddenly—and apparently inexplicably—she is told that the job no longer exists. Just as it dawns on the speaker that the reason she is unacceptable for the position is her race, it also dawns on the reader. Brand, with careful rhetorical manipulation of structure, mimics the speaker’s epiphany in the reader by withholding the information that the speaker is black. [Topic sentence] Indeed, the first mention of the speaker’s race comes after her rejection as she makes her escape and laughs “that laughter that Black people get, derisive and self-derisive” (74). Before the non-interview, the speaker sees herself as neutral in terms of race (interestingly, not in...
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