Alexa Measles 8 May 2014 PC-2500 Final: Reflective Paper Delivering an effective oral presentation is not very difficult. Just be sure to follow a few guidelines and stipulations. Before, I had no idea how to create an effective presentation. I knew nothing about the organization, knowing not to leave slides up for too long, or even evaluating and critiquing videos. Now, after this class, I know how to prepare and present an effective oral presentation. A lot of thought and preparation
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This discussion will enable us to lay some of the theoretical groundwork for communication and public speaking. Let's begin by exploring the basics. How do you define the term communication? Take a few minutes to go through the "Is This Communication?" activity included in this week's lecture material and report your results. I personally define communication as any individual trying to convey his/her thoughts to someone other than his/her self. Although I scored average in the results of my Communication
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reason lies in the relation between gestures and words. People’s natural and unstudied gestures are often indicators of what they will think and say next. Thus rehearsing specific gestures one by one and employing gesture or even slightly after speaking the associated words would let audience feel that something’s wrong—that the speaker is inauthentic. Then how to prepare an authentic speech and rehearse those gestures? Four underlying aims (intents): 1. To be open with your audience: Try
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opportunity to learn about public speaking and skills required to be an effective communicator. Simplicity was a key feature of his speeches. If some part of speech had too much information, he used to divide it into smaller points so that audience can fully understand application of his ideas. His 2005’ commencement speech at Stanford University is cited as one of the most effective speeches and it is a good example to analyze communication style and skills employed in public speaking. The second speech
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I have never liked talking in front of a large crowd, in fact, I hate it. I don’t know why; it just really has never been my thing. In this paper I will tell you about the different things I do when I talk in front of many people, what goes through my mind, and why I think I am so scared of talking. Talking in front of a group of people has NEVER, EVER been something easy for me to do. Not even when I was a little kid, even then I would always stutter or talk very quietly. Unless I know the group
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In the last reflection I was preparing for my speech, since then I have presented my speech and completed and turned in my product. It has been a long been a long road since the last reflection. I would only change the timeline of the product. I wish I could have gotten all of my footage for the product before the Thanksgiving Break. There is something about getting a ton of footage then being able to put it all together that makes me happy. Heading back to the speeches of the research project I
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My introduction speech did not go as well as I had hoped. Although it didn’t go altogether badly, I feel like it didn’t go too badly. The audience seemed to be very attentive and receptive to what I was saying, and I found that to be encouraging. I thought that explaining my Lebanese heritage in a comical manner worked out very well, because it brought out my humorous personality and simultaneous allowed the audience to get to know my roots. Calling my sister a babe may have been a little bit
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After giving my evangelization talk for the first time in class on Monday, I have learned many ways in which I can improve the delivery of my speech and make the message much stronger. In reflecting on my talk, the student assessments, the video, and looking back through my notes all proved to be helpful tools in improving the effectiveness my talk can have. I was quite hesitant to watch my video for the first time, but after getting over my initial embarrassment of being filmed I was able to
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the speaker has the intent to help the audience understand how they individually interpret a topic, such as say oranges, and then puts hard work behind that intent, the speech will be great. No one person has the same view, and the purpose of public speaking is to get numerous minds to think, or at least acknowledge, the same idea. If an idea is communicated to an audience effectively enough it could also influence the audience’s future actions. Anderson
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JROTC is defined as a program that teaches young adults valuable skills, such as public speaking, leadership, and gives cadets a sense of accomplishment. This is what makes the JROTC program great. The JROTC program can help bring a sense of importanceThe JROTC program can help bring a sense of importance and accomplishment to cadets as they complete different projects and competitions. 100 years ago, JROTC was just but an act instilled in1916. Today, JROTC is a program to help motivate young adults
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