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Speaking in Public

1. Speaking in Public. Similarities Between Public Speaking and Conversation. Organizing thoughts logically Tailoring the message to the audience Telling a story for maximum impact Adapting to listener feedback. Differences Between Public Speaking and Conversation.

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Speaking in Public

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  1. 1 Speaking in Public

  2. Similarities Between Public Speaking and Conversation • Organizing thoughts logically • Tailoring the message to the audience • Telling a story for maximum impact • Adapting to listener feedback

  3. Differences Between Public Speaking and Conversation • Public speaking is more highly structured • Public speaking requires more formal language • Public speaking requires a different method of delivery

  4. The Speech Communication Process • Speaker • Message • Channel • Listener • Feedback • Interference • Situation

  5. Speaker The person who is presenting an oral message to a listener.

  6. Message Whatever a speaker communicates to someone else.

  7. Channel The means by which a message is communicated.

  8. Listener The person who receives the speaker’s message.

  9. Frame of Reference The sum of a person’s knowledge, experience, goals, values, and attitudes.

  10. Frame of Reference • Everything a speaker says is filtered through a listener’s frame of reference. • No two people can have exactly the same frame of reference.

  11. Feedback The messages, usually nonverbal, sent from a listener to a speaker.

  12. Interference Anything that impedes the communication of a message.

  13. Situation The time and place in which speech communication occurs.

  14. The Speech Communication Process • Insert Figure 1.1

  15. Stage Fright Anxiety over the prospect of giving a speech in front of an audience.

  16. Nervousness Is Normal Your body is responding by producing extra adrenaline, a hormone released into the bloodstream in response to physical or mental stress.

  17. Reducing Speech Anxiety • Acquire speaking experience • Prepare, prepare, prepare • Think positively • Use the power of visualization • Know that most nervousness is not visible • Don’t expect perfection

  18. Positive Nervousness Controlled nervousness that helps energize a speaker for her or his presentation.

  19. Visualization Mental imaging in which a speaker vividly pictures himself or herself giving a successful presentation.

  20. Critical Thinking Focused, organized thinking about such things as the logical relationships among ideas, the soundness of evidence, and the differences between fact and opinion.

  21. Ethnocentrism The belief that one’s own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures.

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