CMST 2060 : Midterm Notes
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Study chapters 5 and 6 and these notes. When writing your speeches: determine your general topic, analyze your audience, refine your topic into a clear, concise purpose statement, develop the body of your presentation, develop the introduction, develop the conclusion. Anxiety: normal, american orientation, a type of emotion. Is overwhelming, distracts you: main difference is intensity and duration, big intensity and longer duration lead to debilitated emotional reaction, low intensity and shorter duration lead to facilitated emotional reaction. This will help you stay away from the depilated emotional reaction: manage our reactions so that we don"t make ourselves anxious, we control it. Rhetoric: persuasion, the art of using symbols to adjust ideas to people and people to ideas, 6 characteristics of rhetoric, rhetoric is planned/purposeful, always has a goal in mind. It is always on : has no off switch can"t turn it off, people are always perceiving your messages, 2) nonverbal behavior is highly ambiguous (vague)
