COM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Eye Contact, Microsoft Powerpoint
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As a speaker, you want your audience to: Do something differently than they have done before. Performance orientation: seeing your presentation as a performance and your audience as critics. (perfection is the goal) Communication orientation: your focus as a speaker is to achieve your communicative goals. Impromptu: a speech that has little or no preparation time and is made up along the way. Manuscript: a speech that is written word for word using a tone and language that are appropriate for speaking rather than reading. Memorized: a speech is written as a manuscript and then delivered from memory. Extemporaneous: a speech is practiced thoroughly, but not memorized, using speakers notes, not a manuscript. Vocalized pauses: filler words such as um and ah Factors that determine whether an audience will engage and process a message. The relevance of the message, which provides motivation to the process. Ability, the receiver must be able to process the message.