Post on 24-Dec-2015
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Look & Sound Like an Effective Public Speaker
Modes of Delivery
• Manuscript
• Memorized
• Extemporaneous
• Impromptu
The Look
Appearance
• Rules of attire for public speakers?
• Look credible
• Look better than the audience
• CLOTHING• GROOMING• ARTIFACTS
Peek-A-Boo!
Eye Contact
• Why does eye contact remain an important public speaking cue?
Facial Expressions
Gestures• Nonverbal Emblems
• direct verbal translations
• widely understood
• Nonverbal Adapters
• potentially problematic
• unintentional movements
• Nonverbal Illustrators
• used to demonstrate & reinforce verbal messages
Posture
The Sound
Volume• The relative loudness of a speaker’s voice
• Speech delivery --> louder than normal conversation
• Consider:
• size of the room and audience
• whether or not a microphone is available
• the level of background noise
Vocal Variety
•Pitch
•Rate
•Emphasis
I can do that.
I can do that.
I can do that.
I can do that.
I can do that.
Pause
• It is essential that every college student take a public speaking course.
• Non-words (Verbal fillers)
• Um/Uh
• Like
• So
• Yeah
Pronunciation
COMMONLY MISPRONOUNCED WORDSSUPPOSEDLY
LIBRARY ATHLETE ETCETERA
ASKCLOTHES
ESPECIALLY• Any other words?
• The correct formation of word sounds.
Articulation
COMMON MISARTICULATIONOTTA - OUGHT TO
DINT - DIDN’TDUNNO - DON’T KNOW
HAFTA - HAVE TOWANNA - WANT TOWILYA - WILL YOU
• The clarity or forcefulness with which the sounds are made.
Vary Your Vocalics
Recite aloud the following line:
“A frog jumped out of the water.”
Anger
Disgust
Love
Boredom
Relief
Surprise
Pain
Guilt
Uncertainty
Joy
Effective DeliveryThe controlled use of body & voice
Look
• Pay attention to appearance
• Maintain eye contact
• Have facial expressions
• Use appropriate gestures
• Practice good posture
Sound• Adjust your speaking volume
• Use vocal variety
• Use strategic pauses
• Avoid meaningless vocal fillers
• Be conscious of pronunciation & articulation
Nonverbal Immediacy
• The degree of perceived closeness:
physical or psychological
Developing Your Rhetorical Style
My what?
• Magnified gestures
• Longer eye contact
• Builds tension or exaggerates for emphasis
• Uses colorful language to create mood or paint a picture
Dramatic Style
• Energetic
• Enthusiastic
• Excited
Audience knows what the speaker thinks or feels.
Animated Style
Open Style
• Conversational
• Invites audience involvement
• Pleasant, sincere, trusting, self-disclosing
• Not afraid to emote (like Animated Style)
Humorous Style• Relies primarily on humor to engage the
audience
• Think you’re funny?
• Get plenty of feedback to validate your perception!
1. Choose a style that fits you.
2. Don’t stress style over substance.
3. Build on your own strengths as a communicator.
3 things to consider:
• Articulator Agility
• is a Marvelous Ability
• Manipulating the Dexterity
• The Tongue
• The Teeth
• The Lips
• Red leather -- Yellow leather
• Blue blood -- Black blood
• Unique New York
• You know you need unique New York
• To sit in solemn silence
• On a dull dark dock
• In a pestilential prison
• With a life long lock
• Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp, shock
• From a cheap and chippy chopper
• On a big black block
•I slit the sheets
•The sheets I slit
•Upon the slitted sheets I sit
• I am a mother pheasant plucker.
• I pluck mother pheasants.
• I am the pleasantest mother pheasant plucker who ever
did pluck a mother pheasant.
•I am not the fig plucker.
•I’m the fig plucker’s mate.
•I’m out plucking figs because that fig plucker’s
late!
• LOLITA
• LIGHT OF MY LIFE
• FIRE OF MY LOINS
• MY SIN, MY SOUL, LOLITA
• THE TIP OF THE TONGUE
• TAKING A TRIP OF THREE TWIRLS
• LO-LI-TA
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