SPCOM111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Blurry, Microsoft Powerpoint, Flowchart

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Speech Communication
• Course: SPCOM111
• Professor: Jeff Stacey

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Disadvantages for the speaker: enhances authenticity, can damage credibility. Listeners think you did not put in enough effort to prepare: demonstrates what the speaker is talking about actually exists. Judged to be more professional, prepared, concrete, and persuasive. Improves delivery: encourages movement while displaying the aid, purposeful movement helps remediate nervousness. Types of presentation aids: people, can be distracting, may worry about how you will use it and lose track of the verbal message, uneasiness in technology, can reduce eye contact. Illustrate your message not detract from it: objects, exemplify the concepts in the presentation. Show locations of occurrences and put problems in perspective. Slices are percentages of the whole and must add up to 100% Subject is complex or message contains many statistical information: only distribute during the presentation if it is necessary to reference something so audience does not get distracted, best to distribute after the speech, transparencies, projections, and slides.