Public Speaking Experience Essay

1. Why do you think a class like Public Speaking is a requirement for most majors? Be specific here - your book gives several examples, however, I want you to come up with someone your own. Let me start by saying that just as reading is the key to life, I believe being able to communicate and understand knowledge through efficiently is as well the key to life. One must be able to give one’s ideas to others in the best way possible for others to understand and comprehend the information to the…

I have had a speech impediment for as long as I can remember, and it has always been a point of discomfort. I used to dread public speaking and abhorred doing presentations in school, scared my classmates would mock me, or think I was peculiar for not being able to speak like everyone else. In elementary school, I attended speech therapy classes, and although it helped, the improvements were inconsequential, and my speech was still not up to par. Throughout middle school and the majority of high…

As an ESL student, and an introverted person, speaking in public is always a huge challenge for me. In fact, if Speech Communication is not a required course for every student, I think I would never enroll in this course. Nevertheless, during the process of taking this course, I realized that I have learned a lot, and this course is not so burdensome than I thought before, on the contrary, it is quite interesting to listen to other classmates’ speeches, and giving my own speeches in front of a…

What is emotional intelligence? As defined it is “the ability to express emotion accurately, as well as the ability to understand emotion and emotional knowledge along with the ability to access and to generate feelings when they facilitate emotions in ways that insist thought”. However this is only part of the story ones emotional intelligence also allows them to adjust to and handle stress, anxiety, etc. One emotional intelligence directly relates to how one deals with these internal and…

All you need to know about public speaking When it comes to speaking in public, everybody almost feels the same way; it’s scary because you never know what’s going to happen, who’s going to be attending or how people are going to receive your speech. In other words, people are scared to speak to a crowd. And it’s not hard to understand why. Imagine that you’ve been assigned with selling a new cooking device for your first day at work. You’ve never done it before, and were only given 30 minutes…

apprehension for quite a while now. Although it is not as bad, as it used to be. My freshman year of college, I was actually enrolled in the COMS 130 course, but my fear of public speaking, caused me to drop the course. Now that I am enrolled in the class again, I feel much more confidant than I did last year. My fear of pubic speaking is still there, but not as bad as it was. I have given two speeches in the class thus far, and throughout this paper…

The first guideline is “Don’t overestimate what the audience knows.” What this essentially means is that a speaker should never just assume that the audience knows the topic well. The audience might never have heard about the topic before, so the speaker must be sure to either elaborate or simplify the topic to make it easier to understand from the perspective of a first-time listener. The second guideline is “Relate the subject directly to the audience.” In order to give a successful…

Review 1: Ken Davis, How to Speak to Youth and Keep them Awake at the Same Time (Zondervan, 1996). SUMMARY In How to Speak to Youth, Ken Davis shares pearls of wisdom about communicating to modern youth. The keys to his presentations are “planning, practice, care and dependence on God.” He shares three truths about communicating effectively: “Very Hard Work”, “Learning”, and “Passion.” Preparation to communicate includes “preaching with the example”, knowing your audience, avoid imitation of…

your listeners. The analysis gathered offers an insight of how to pass across your message so as the audience can respond as per your anticipation. Three phases make up a completed audience analysis; the first being adapting to ones audience before speaking. The best ways to do this is via, having a demographic analysis, environmental analysis and attitudinal analysis. Demographic analysis has gender, age, ethnicity, culture, race, education level and religion. Attitudinal analysis covers the…

As a student I have always tried to avoid public speaking courses as much as possible. Especially the ones that are for public speaking, once I found out I was going to have to take a public speaking course I was dreading the moment than I found out I could take it solely online and I thought oh this wont be as bad, even though I was still pretty anxious about it. Once in Com103 I was dreading having to say the first speech. Then we had our first online class, I felt a lot more prepared and had…