SPCOM111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rhetorical Situation

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Speech Communication
• Course: SPCOM111
• Professor: Olga Gladkova

Document Summary

Pay attention to the introduction and conclusion - the entire paper, individual segments, and highlighted pieces. Go back and revisit the parts that are of special interest. Communication is our way to intervene on a situation. To teach, to delight, and to move. General rule of thumb is to give the audience reference to the author or organization or forum that the listeners will recognize. For c&c posts: schreiber, 2011, (cid:522)informative speaking,(cid:523) p. 15-2) Time constraints remind us to be efficient and respectful to the audience. Create limits and barriers that sometimes we take as challenges, but they also give us a sense of direction. Your 1 task as a speaker is to transfer into your listener(cid:519)s minds an idea. If an idea is communicate properly, it has the power to change how someone thinks of something forever. Give yourself a chance to explain that one thing properly.