Many of the students that enroll in post-secondary education will be required to face one of the greatest fears known to man – having to stand before an audience and deliver a prepared speech. This dreaded action is courtesy of the requirement of a public speaking course in numerous degree paths. The majority of students will enroll in a public speaking course just to “check the box”, and have no intention of ever really utilizing the skills that they will be taught. There exists a minority of students who recognize the importance of effective public speaking, and desire to move past the basics and become effective orators. How can these students be aided? A full semester advanced public speaking course could be designed to mature both the …show more content…
Murugaiah further points out “Pecha Kucha (PK), which means “the sound of conversation” or “chitchat” in Japanese, refers to a presentation format that is well-prepared, fast and concise” (p. 89) The PK, created by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham, consists of 20 PowerPoint slides, containing pictures and graphics with little text, presented on a timer of 20 seconds per slide (Murugaiah, 2016). The purpose of learning the PK is to provide evidence that informative speeches are better kept short and sweet. According to Murugaiah, “Those who are subjected to information-laden presentations perform worse than those who are not. On the other hand, when concise slides are presented, the rate of retention of information is better (p. 92). The PK will focus more on the physical delivery assisting students in understanding the need to not be locked into one spot and posture during their presentations. Individual presentations have reigned up until this point, but oftentimes you will not be alone on the …show more content…
Additionally, students will be afforded the time to meet with members of the selected group in order to interview for the purpose of audience analysis. De La Mare (2014) revealed that the audience analysis portion of their speeches is taken much more seriously by the service-learning students (201). The creation of civic-minded speakers will provide a boost to the realistic rhetoric we need to hear. Becoming effective speakers teaches how to say something, but it can be further enhanced by adding the element of learning what to
Anita Leinweber is an assistant professor of marine science at UH Hilo. She is originally from Germany, where she received her master of science and doctor of philosophy before becoming a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA. She, thankfully, had much to say for each of the questions, allowing me to learn a lot about writing and public speaking in my field. Her own experiences with public speaking mostly revolve around scientific conferences, where she would present her research to peers and many other scientists. She also taught a class at UCLA that she considered more public because it was open to interested individuals 55 and older. She also often spoke to K-12 teachers about her science and how they could use it in their own classroom. As for
The speech delivered by Dr. Randy Pausch is a powerful and influential public speaking, including various communication components that we should pay attention to and learn when we present our speeches. This lecture is divided into three parts: My childhood dreams, enabling the dreams of others and lessons learned. Dr. Randy Pausch told his audience what he believed and valued with his proper body languages, effective and efficient delivery and interesting and attractive visual aids. From this speech, it can be told that the speaker’s strengths and effectiveness from the lecture, which can reflect my problems as a communicator and a public speaker
Perhaps, also wondering if it actually will be informative for an individual can be something very intimidating. Kevin chose to talk about the World cup, something that has never brought much entertainment to me. The way that Kevin was talking, with so much passion shown to his audience caught my attention, not to mention the humor he used along with it. Presenting a speech to the class is as if one was having an ongoing conversation with strangers and letting them know why the topic brings so much interest to you. Not to mention, one must seem into it to not lose the audience interest, which is what Kevin did. Kevin used hand gestures letting the audience or perhaps myself know that he was actually meaning what he was
The first step to getting an audience to listen to a speaker is for the speaker to have good credentials, or ethos. At the beginning of his speech,
Public speaking is a topic that most people dread. The anxious feeling of getting in front of people and presenting is avoided by many people at all costs. Although public speaking has a bad reputation, when done right, it can be a very valuable skill to have. Recently, I attended a presentation that was given by Ann Walker, a member of the National Alliance for Mental Health (NAMI). This presentation was focused on making more people aware about mental illnesses and the effects of them, which was using the method of an Informative Speech. As said in it’s name, the purpose of this kind of presentation is to “Increase your audience’s knowledge of a particular topic or teach them something new” (Hosek & Crawford, 2016, p. 74), which is stated in our student guidebook. It was held in a very casual setting, consisting of a college classroom holding about 50 seats. Before Walker started presenting her speech, she asked the audience what most of us were majoring in.
At the beginning of the semester our class was introduced to a new term, listenability. The level of listenability is at the mercy of the speaker, not of the audience. During our semester, we were taught to harness the listenability keys of strategy, structure, support, and style in order to achieve a high level of listenability. Examples of listenability include when a speaker engages the audience by asking questions, using narratives or stories that people can relate to, and has stimulating visual support and content. These are only a couple of keys used to create a listener centered speech.
The two principles that a speaker should consider when analyzing the audience and speaking occasion is avoiding stereotyping and sensitivity to diversity (Rothwell, 333). As a speaker you should present your supporting material that interests both gender so you can develop your speech from different perspectives (Rothwell, 349). While presenting your speech you should analyze the multicultural makeup of college audience because you want to support your speech with accurate facts about other cultural that will not offend other students from different back ground in the audience (Rothwell
Over the recent four months in Communication 1402 class, I have addressed three formal speechs and completed a number of chapters in the corresponding textbook “Communication Works”. This course of Communication aims to provide general information what public speaking is and how to address a public speaking. Recalling back the experience during the processes of completing the Speech to Imform, Speech to Persuade, and Group Presentation, I will draw a conclusion about this course and these three presentations in five aspects, comprising my previous perception of public speaking before this course; learning from the Speech to Inform; the goal and evaluation of Speech to Persuade; learning from the Group Presentation; the most important thing learned from this course.
I have also learned about different types of audiences and speeches including persuasive, informative, entertaining and delivering special occasion speeches. It came to my attention that whenever I was making these presentations or speeches, I needed to do so with confidence, consistence and practice before the actual presentation and completely eliminate the element of panic. It was also clear that capturing the attention of the audience and engaging them in the whole process, it was necessary to have a very strong introduction and also try and use visuals to deliver the message. It was therefore vital to respect each person’s diversity and cultural values (Lucas, 2011).
My audience recognized some of the authoritative sources what made easier for me to keep moving forward with the speech. With regards to the delivery of my ideas, I believe I used words and visual aids that helped the public to better understand, to follow, and remember. In fact, some people form the audience kept talking and asking questions. One of my strategies was to try to narrate a story instead of giving facts and dates only.
I sensed something was missing though. This thought came in my transition into junior year. We would practice our hand at various prompts in the classroom, and even reading more sophisticated literary works, but I still found that I lacked a common adult attribute. Public speaking. Just as Sherman Alexie admired his father for his love of reading, I can relate in that I admire my father for his articulate speaking style. I spoke to him about this lingering thought and we decided to tackle the challenge head on. He made sure to reiterate the importance of confidence and preparedness as we worked. As my involvement in clubs and groups grew, as did my likelihood of speech giving. Not to say that I lacked satisfactory speaking skills, but I did notice much of speaking occurred in front of peers and teachers; a comfortable setting in which I possessed endless poise. I pondered when and where I would ever have the opportunity to practice the skills I had been striving to sharpen. Well, the opportunity came knocking one September morning. I opened my email to find an invitation to a Southern Pines Rotary Club. This was no ordinary invitation though, I would be recognized at this meeting for representing the club at a leadership program that past summer and was asked to share some of my experience there. I couldn’t contain myself and I immediately shared the news with my father. As the emotions soon settled in, I anxiously awaited that Friday. I set out to work drafting what I would share, refering to my dad for pointers and
The presentation style of pecha kucha was a very unique and challenging one for me. In this type of presentation, I only had 20 seconds to talk about the content covered in each of the 20 slides. In most presentations, even if there was a time limitation, it would be an overall time limit. The first challenge was to divide all the things that I had to cover into exactly 20 slides and each slide has to cover similar amount of content. Usually in my presentation, the introduction slide and the conclusion slide will be shorter than the main body, yet in pecha kucha presentation, the first slide should be equally long as the rest of the slides, so I chose to state the main point right at the beginning and also to mention the flow of my presentation. Another challenge was that I did not know how much time I had used in presenting on each slides so I had to practise for many times in order to know how fast or slow I should speak in each slide and to ensure that the presentation would be
In order to successfully deliver an oral presentation such as a speech, the speaker must follow certain procedures to ensure his message can be conveyed clearly. Vast amounts of research are essential in order to acquire the knowledge necessary to be able to speak about a topic comfortably and answer any questions the audience might have during the course of the presentation. After acquiring such knowledge about the topic of the presentation the speaker will feel more confident, confidence is key in delivering speeches and other oral presentations because it makes the speaker look more credible and trustworthy. Lastly, the speaker must be fluid and eloquent with his words, the speaker must be able to sound clear and crisp while delivering their
In public speaking I learned many types of concepts, theories and terms of communication. In concepts of publicly speaking there’s, relaxation, practice, credibility, attention getters, attire, organization, volume, emotion, audience relation, and movement. In my first speech, “The any old bag speech” I quickly learned the do’s, don’ts and concepts of my speech performance.
Communication lessons have enabled me be able to differentiate between various types of speech. I can tell the difference between persuasive, informative, and narrative speech. With such knowledge it has become easier to evaluate the kind of speeches delivered and classify them accordingly. Moreover, it is easy to tell the objective of the speaker whether it is to educate, to persuade, to motivate or to