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Oral Communications
The importance of Oral Communications

Walking into a corporate office with a suit and tie as your attire. You hold a high school diploma as well as a college degree. Your résumé is flawless and your criminal record is spotless. You enter the CEOs office and you are just what he is looking for. After the interview the CEO tells you thanks but you did have what he was looking for. You wonder why, and the reason is your speech. You missed out on a chance of having a six figure job because you were not able to speak the ?corporate? language.

If you are not able to speak proper Standard English try emulating someone who does. Even try attending an Oral Communications course. It is very important you learn how to expunge slang out of your vocabulary when the time is appropriate. Oral Communication will teach you how to code-switch. Code-Switching is being able to know when to speak proper English and when to transfer back overt to slang. I realized that when someone speaks proper English others are found to grimace and make fun. This results of that is chronic misuse of the English language.

Oral Communications teaches you to be compatible with Standard English. It also teaches you to write in Standard English. Personally, oral communications is a great course of studies. It helps you for whenever and whatever you are ready to do. It especially helps you for ?the real world?. Without oral communications our community would remain abysmal. Being African-American we are already viewed as being uneducated, uncouth, and an ignorant society. So it is very important for us to learn to speak proper English by taking an oral communications class.

Most people say that speaking proper is also known as ?talking white?. For an African-American speaking proper English is known as anomalous. I am very austere when it comes down to proper speaking. I do not think it is talking white and oral communications helps you efface that thought. Oral communications will force

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