Public Speaking And Public Speaking Anxiety

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The Business and Education fields can both benefit from this study. Skills in public address are necessary for presenting to the audience a clear understanding of the topic. Presenters and speakers in the business world will often be faced with no choice in the method the presentation is made; either a web-based audience or a face-to-face audience. Clearly there is a need for students to be taught to make high-quality presentations in both forums. Students should also be aware of which method of delivery works best for them, should they have a choice in the method of delivery. Knowing which method works best for them will give students the opportunity to improve on the method that most needs improving. In order to properly prepare students …show more content…
Public speaking or oral presentation, therefore, are viewed in the present study as "that form of communication in which a speaker addresses a relatively large audience with a relatively continuous recite, usually in a face-to-face situation" (DeVito, 1986, p. 244).
Despite these research efforts and the fact that many basic speech method absorb a try to reduce the impact of public speaking (Gibson, Gruner, Hanna, Smythe & Hayes, 1980), public speaking anxiety has ''received far less attention from scholars than have interpersonally-related sorts of shyness" (Daly, et al. 1989, p.39).
Although this study concerns how students commonly avoid public speaking, because it is important to review the visual of communication wariness so that the relationship of 3 the two concepts and a clear distinction between them may be drawn. First described as "a broadly based anxiety related to oral communication" (Mccroskey, 1970, p. 279), It has been examined under a variety of labels including "stage fright" (Clevenger, 1959), "audience sensitivity" (Paivio, 1964), "reticence" (Phillips, 1968), "shyness" (Zimbardo, 1977), "unwillingness to communicate" (Burgoon, 1976), and even "public speaking anxiety" (Lomas,

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