A Speaker's Guidebook

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Benefits of public speaking

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Honing critical thinking and listening skills. Enhancing your career as a student. Accomplishing professional goals. Accomplishing personal goals. Exploring and sharing values. Expanding your participation in civic life.

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Dyadic communication

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a form of communication between two people, as in conversations.

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Small group communication

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involves a slamm number of people who can see nad speak directly with one another, as in a business meeting

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Mass communication

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occurs between a speaker an a large audience of unkown people. In mass communication the recievers of the message are not present with the speaker, or they are part of such an aimmense crowd that there can be little or no interaction between speaker and listener

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Public speaking

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a speaker delivers a message with a speicif purpose to an audience of people who are present during the delivery of the speech

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Public speaking always includes...

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a pseaker who has a reason for speaking, an audience that gives the speaker its attention, and a message that is meant to accomplish a specific purpose

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Differences between public speaking and other forms of communication

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oppurtunities for feedback. Level of preparation. Degree of formality

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Feedback

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listener response to a message. In public speaking middle of low and high feedback, audience offers verbal and nonverbal cues

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Source

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or sender, is the person who creates a message

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Encoding

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organizing the message, choosing words and sentence structure and verbalizing the message. it is the physical process of delivering the message