speech
Chapter 1: The power of public speaking
• Greek leader pericles “ one who forms a judgment on any point but cannot explain” it clearly “ might as well never have thought at all on the subject”
• Employers consistently rank the ability to communicate above technical knowledge when deciding whom to hire and whom to promote
• College graduates are increasingly being asked to give presentations as part of their job interviews
• Internet & other technologies has not reduced the need for pubic speaking
The tradition of public speaking
• Oldest handbook on effective speech was written on papyrus in Egypt 4,500yrs ago.
• Eloquence was highly prized in ancient India, Africa & china as well as Aztecs and other pre-European cultures of north & south America
• Greece and Rome essential role in education & life
• Aristotle’s rhetoric most important work on subject
Differences between public speaking and conversation
• A.R. Wylie “ After many years of practice I am, I suppose, really a ‘practiced speaker’. But I rarely rise to my feet without a throat constricted with terror and a furiously thumping heart. When, for some reason, I am cool and self-assured, the speech is always a failure.”
Public speaking and critical thinking
• Critical thinking is focused, organized thinking- the ability to see clearly the relationships among ideas.
The speech communication process
• Speaker - the person telling the speech
• Message - what the speaker communicates to someone else (the intended message is the message actually communicated)
• Channel – the means by which a message is communicated
• Listener – the person who receives the communicated message. The message the speaker is saying is filtered through the listeners (frame of preference)
• Feedback - the way the audience is reacting to your speech. “ Ex. clapping, paying close attention”
• Interference – anything that impedes the communication of an MSG. Two kind of interference external to the
• Greek leader pericles “ one who forms a judgment on any point but cannot explain” it clearly “ might as well never have thought at all on the subject”
• Employers consistently rank the ability to communicate above technical knowledge when deciding whom to hire and whom to promote
• College graduates are increasingly being asked to give presentations as part of their job interviews
• Internet & other technologies has not reduced the need for pubic speaking
The tradition of public speaking
• Oldest handbook on effective speech was written on papyrus in Egypt 4,500yrs ago.
• Eloquence was highly prized in ancient India, Africa & china as well as Aztecs and other pre-European cultures of north & south America
• Greece and Rome essential role in education & life
• Aristotle’s rhetoric most important work on subject
Differences between public speaking and conversation
• A.R. Wylie “ After many years of practice I am, I suppose, really a ‘practiced speaker’. But I rarely rise to my feet without a throat constricted with terror and a furiously thumping heart. When, for some reason, I am cool and self-assured, the speech is always a failure.”
Public speaking and critical thinking
• Critical thinking is focused, organized thinking- the ability to see clearly the relationships among ideas.
The speech communication process
• Speaker - the person telling the speech
• Message - what the speaker communicates to someone else (the intended message is the message actually communicated)
• Channel – the means by which a message is communicated
• Listener – the person who receives the communicated message. The message the speaker is saying is filtered through the listeners (frame of preference)
• Feedback - the way the audience is reacting to your speech. “ Ex. clapping, paying close attention”
• Interference – anything that impedes the communication of an MSG. Two kind of interference external to the