Discussion Week 5.3: Chapter 5 Concept

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The concept that I found most helpful in chapter 5 was the idea of the audience-speaker connection. As stated in the book, successful speakers view audience members as partners in public speaking. The book also states that, "Speakers succeed only to the degree they effectively connect with their audience.." This means that if a speaker does not connect with their audience, then they have really not succeeded at all. When an audience is listening to a speech, they want to know how what the speaker is talking about relates to them. In my opinion, whenever I hear someone speaking about something that I am really interested in hearing, I tend to listen a whole lot better and pay attention tons more. Audience analyses is a pivotal thing when preparing a speech, you want to know what kind of things interest the audience and not bore them. :)

-Jeter! 

Discussion Week 5.2: Speech Buddies

Hiiii. :)

While watching the two speech buddy videos, I learned a few things and took some things the speaker's did into consideration.In the first video called "Drinking," by Matthew, he gives many statistics on driving accidents. He uses an overhead for this. The purpose for his speech was to inform students on the danger of drinking to get drunk, and he wants students to become more responsible drinkers. I liked the fact that he chose that topic because that topic can really relate to college students because many of them drink while attending a university. He had a really good attention getter which I'm sure would have caught my attention if I were listening to his speech.

In the second video, "Light Pollution," Courtney does a really good job by stating everything that she is going to talk about, right from the start. She stated what she was going to speak about, light pollution, and she said how she was going to share with the audience the light pollution problems and how if affects us. 

From both speaker's, I learned that just like in Courtney's, I should state what I am going to talk about, and from Matthew's, I learned that I should pick a topic that will interest students and use a visual aid.

:)

-Jeter!

Discussion Week 5.1: Audience Analysis/Adaptation

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While reading chapter 5, I learned the importance of audience analysis and audience adaptation. As you may or may not already know, just as stated in the book, our knowledge about the speaker's audience embarks with audience analysis. This is very important because it can make you or break you on whether or not you do it or not. When one analyzes their audience, they need to figure out what the audience diversity and whether or not they are smiling,have their eyes wandering elsewhere, or simply just looking bored.

 

One needs to practice beforehand as to how they will respond if they get a reaction that they were not expecting. The speaker has to try to connect and get to know the type of people they will be addressing. This can mean a number of things, including getting to know their familiarity with the speaker's topic, their views on certain subjects, and their interests. 

I liked how chapter 5 started off by saying the whole Bill Gates speech and how he would sort of include the name of the school he was speaking at and carefully prepare his speech with the audience in mind. :)

I plan on using audience analysis in my speech by having the audience in mind. To explain,in my informative speech, I will be giving certain examples about the complexity of student aid. I have been seeing some signs across campus talking about student aid and how we need to fight for more. I think I am also going to try and find out how much tuition has increased over the years at Sjsu and in school tuition across California in general.Since we are all in college, I am sure the audience will be interested in it, at least, I'm hoping so. :)

-Jeter!

discussion Week 4.3: Chapter 6 Concept

Hey there! Happy Valentines Day to all. :)

Okay, well the concept that I found most useful was the maximizing your search of internet resources. I learned how different keywords produce different things when entering the keywords into a search engine, databases, etc. So we should try and enter different phrases as the keywords, because you might get different information everytime and not find the right information the first time you type something in. It also says how we should search a variety of sources. Just as mentioned in my previous blog, one should go to the library and looks through books,magazines, journals,etc. for information. The library consists of sooo many resources,and the more you know about your speech, the more confident one might be. :)

Happy V-day!

-Jeter!

Discussion Week 4.2 Speech Buddies

Hey there! :)

This week while watching the speech buddie videos, I learned some stuff about managing a resource process. I like how the video talked about going to the library to do one's research for it is the perfect place to look for sources because there are so many different books and a plethora of different sources. For example, there are articles, old newspapers, encyclopedias,books, and journals. 

The library is a pivotal thing when doing research. By using these resources, you can be pretty sure that they are all worth some credibility. Afterall,one can not really believe anything on the internet now. Knowing everything about your topic and knowing that your sources are credible will make me feel a whole lot more comfortable speaking in front of people. To explain, I won't be wondering whether some people know that what I am talking about is true or not.(haha)

Even if someone thinks that they know a whole lot about their topic, that should not stop them from going out and doing some research. It's actually pretty cool when you find something out that you did not know. :)

-Jeter!

Discussion Week 4.1 Research Interviews

I have never personally had any experience with conducting research interviews but I 

got somewhat close to it, so I think. This one time last year, for my (MUSE)U.S. Music Modern class I had an assignment in which we had to interview an elder or a person over the age of 45. The purpose of the interview was to find out information on what older people thought about the music of their time and to also find out what kind of music was inappropriate and what they think of today's music. I interviewed my dad for this assignment. Before interviewing him, I made a list of questions for my dad to talk about.I recorded him and played it back when it was time to write my paper. The good thing was that my dad was able to answer all of my questions, but one thing that was didn't turn out so was the fact that he did not quite understand what I meant by the questions. I guess my questions were a little too open ended just as discussed in chapter 6. I was not quite prepared to interview him because I did it last minute so I was not able to get as much information as possible. 

-jeter!

Week 3: Discussion#2 (Speech Buddies)

In the first video, Janine suggest that for us to go somewhere quiet where we can practice speaking; afterall, a quiet environment allows the speaker to be more focused and concentrate on what will go right during your presentation and what will go wrong. In the videos, Janine suggests for the speaker to do some simple breathing excersises which will calm one down. I think the excersises are going to be extremely useful throughout this semester.

In video 2.2 , both Janine and Anthony discuss their fears and how every speaker should go visit the place where they are speaking at, they should adapt to it. 

In the video,"Intro: Jessica," I noticed that Jessica had a strong introduction and conclusion, just like Anthony had suggested a speaker should always have. I think I am going to try and do that,that way, I will be able to get the audience interested in what I am talking about and not just have them with their eyes wandering around the room. 

It's like this, if I were to meet Derek Jeter one day, if I were to be in a huge crowd of girls wanting to meet him,well, I would have to try and make a first good and interesting introduction. If he were to see that I am different then the other girls, well then there you go, he'l be interested. :)

 

Week 3: Discussion#1

Whenever I think about public speaking, I start 

to feel very apprehensive, in other words, I'm fearful that

something unpleasant will occur. I always think about

what the audience will think about me. Last semester I was

enrolled in Comm20, but I dropped out of it because my

apprehensiveness had taken over. But during my first 

week in the class, I learned that while a person is thinking 

about what the audience is thinking or saying about them,

 in reality, they aren't. The audience is most likely as nervous as the 

speaker is. In addition, I always think that my speeches come out a little

short and not as long as they really should be because 

I tend to speak a bit faster when speaking in front of a large audience.

I am always scared that the audience will be making fun of me

if I say the wrong thing or move too much.

Chapter 2 talks about the sources of speech anxiety. These sources

are the following: the uncertainty about your role as a speaker, 

your speaking abilities, your ideas, the setting,the audience's response, etc.

All of the above things stated make me extremely apprehensive when it

comes to speeches.