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
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In my speech, my specific point was to persuade my audience that your shampoo should be switched out every once in a while. In my opinion, I believe I gave them a convincing speech that my opinion should be followed, and that it was correct. I used a lot of source information to add to my credibility to show that I have facts supporting my side. So in conclusion, I believe I achieved my specific purpose. The introduction of my speech went fairly smoothly. I believed I grabbed the audience’s attention
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Movie Review: The King’s Speech The King’s Speech relates to this course by showing someone who struggles with presenting speeches in front of large crowds of people, eventually gets over his fear and accomplishes his goal by giving an amazing speech. I’m almost for certain that more than half of my public speaking class is afraid to give a speech in front of people due to nerves. To me, giving a speech in front of people makes me nervous and scared. I feel like the King George VI because I tend
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effective elevator speech First: why is this kind of public speaking called elevator speech? Well, because it gives you the opportunity to explain what your company does, and what it means to an investor or customer in the time it takes in a lift to ride to the floor of destination. Therefore this business speech is: * absolutely not longer than 25 to 30 seconds * or - in words - approximately 80 to 90 words * or - in sentences - 8 tot 10 sentences The goals of this type of speech presentation
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| 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
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The speech that I listened to was a speech by Melvin Russell and it is called, “I Love Being a Police Officer, but We Need Reform.” He was a very effective speaker his speech was very engaging and had some humor added to him. I would rate this speech as a nine out of ten points. The reason I would rate it this way is because he was very organized with his thoughts, he even had a piece of paper that he use to keep the speech going. He used real life examples to support what he was saying. The way
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purpose of their speech to the audience. A speaker must consider the age, culture, or socioeconomic qualities of the audience. For example, if the audience consist of mostly elementary children, then the speaker must use simple words for the children to understand thoroughly rather than words from a science article. However,
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That Get Results,” speakers only have about 60 seconds to get the attention of the audience, establish credibility, introduce the topic, and encourage the audience to listen (Insider, 2014). This makes the introduction extremely important to the success of the speech. Goals of the introduction are to get the attention of the audience, establish listener relevance, begin to establish speaker credibility and goodwill, and identify the thesis (Verderber, Verderber, & Sellnow, 2011). There are several
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become a better public speaker. And I was not disappointed. For the most part, our class was divided into four parts; an introduction to public speaking, informative speeches, persuasive speeches, and special occasion speeches. In each part, we learned about different types of public speaking, took some relatively easy quizzes, and applied what we learned to a class speech. Even though COMs 101 wasn't difficult, I had fun and
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COM 114 WRITTEN EXAM AND SPEECH REQUIREMENTS Part 1: Written Exam The written exam, 50 multiple choice questions, is based on the COM 114 text, Effective Presentations, 1st or 2nd edition (2011, 2012), by Dr. Melanie Morgan and Jane Natt. Copies of the text are available in campus bookstores, from online sources, and from previous COM 114 students. Students must score 70% (35 out of 50 correct) or more to pass. One hour is allotted for the exam. Students will be informed of the results of the written
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