Checkers speech

(Part A) I can now say that I understand the importance of ethical speaking, along with the capability of analyzing a presentation for logic and evidence. It is important to know your audience, doing so will make your presentation much better. In chapter 3, both authors Alyssa Miler and Rachel Price, affirm this by stating, “Knowing the speaking setting, the audience, and our knowledge of the topic, we are able to confront ethical dilemmas…” (p 3) In my case, I can use this as an advantage when…

Target behavior to be changed: I chose to change my fear of speaking in public for the self- change project. It is important for me to change this behavior because I want to replace this fear with being confident while presenting myself in public, more specifically in a business setting. Baseline and data gathering: The method I used to collect my baseline data (the measurement of my present behavior) was the SUDS scale. I used this method because the SUDS scale is for measuring “subjective…

variety of treatments have attempted to ameliorate overt stuttering behaviors; however, most therapeutic options provide unstable, effortful, and/or unnatural sounding results with high relapse rates. Recent research suggests second speech signals provide natural sounding speech coupled with stable and effortless reductions in overt stuttering frequency; yet its current application, employed acoustically, has several limitations. A tactile modality may be more comfortable and reduce the…

Informative Speech Self-Evaluation Assignment Speech Topic: Ninjas 1. Evaluate the success of your introduction. I feel that my introduction did a good job of getting my audience’s attention by catching there attention with the picture of one of the disguise commonly used by ninjas. I also feel that I did an ok job at establishing my credibility. But I think that a rushed a bit at the begging and started off a little flustered. 2. Evaluate your delivery. For most of my speech I feel that I…

Two people reviewed the informative speech I gave on Thursday, October 15. Both reviewers graded, and scored my speech similarly. According to Joey Betley my highlight was that the video I showed reinforced my information, and was a good idea. For my improvement Joey Betley said to make more eye contact while speaking. I agree with this reviewer I do think that my eye contact was weak, and could have been better. As for the video I thought that it did a good job of explaining how windmills work,…

voice throughout almost all of both of my speeches. I had notes to look down at while I was giving my speech…

the distance, while my little brother and sister shined to be spontaneous like always. To me, public speaking has always been one of my biggest weaknesses in school. Because of this I would not describe myself as shy, rather anxious to preform a speech. This year one of my main goals is to make my weakness one of my strengths. Public speaking is something that I will not be able to not hide from throughout my everyday life and career as a Psychologist. By attending class and getting as involved…

speaker do before getting ready to present a speech? He or she should first, be prepared and know the information that you have written in your speech. You should practice the speech and be familiar with how you are going to choose to present it. Make sure that when you are writing the speech that you go ahead an put some of your personal experiences inside the speech, this way the audience will feel more involved on a personal level. Being prepared for the speech will also prevent you from…

As a child, my parents taught me my native language, Spanish, by reading books to me any chance they had. At the age of 8, when I had the opportunity I would bring home a variety of books from school eager to read them and learn new words. I spent a great amount of time reading that I eventually decided to move into short novels. This helped me improve so much that I never had trouble speaking Spanish. I specifically remember in our small class of 15 students, me speaking Spanish more fluently…

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…