COMM 1112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Notecards

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1112
• Professor: Sara Picklesimer

Document Summary

Speaking in public, creating confident presentations, and listenability. One specific, measurable skill on which to focus for a particular presentation: can determine if you"ve reached it, acknowledge it, include at top of outline, on notecards, somewhere you can see. Self-evaluation: soon after the presentation, multiple sources of evaluation, multiple criteria for evaluation, increase sophistication of evaluation. Strengths, needs improvement, goals for next speech. The degree to which a speech is easy to access, understand, and interact with listen to: encourages you to keep your public listeners in mind during every step of the public speaking process. If effective listening is the audience"s responsibility, creating and achieving listenability is yours. Strategy: choices you make before the presentation topic choice, organization, research. Structure: organize your message and make it accessible to listeners. Support: helps audience believe in your ideas. Satisfy listeners" preference for conversational patterns: readers and listeners are different: written vs. conversational style.