MGTA35H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Abbreviation
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Week1 - ch 4 - public speaking: strategies for success. Better listeners because they have trained themselves to: Two techniques to focus on the thesis and the main ideas. Note taking--the goals are to record as much significant information as. Deciding whether the main ideas support the thesis possible and to do so as efficiently as possible--suggestion. Focus on the thesis and main ideas. Organize the notes as a rough outline. Make notes to help you evaluate the speech. Opinions are judgments that are not clearly true or false and so cannot be independently verified. Apply reason and common sense to new ideas. Relate new ideas to what they already know. Questioning and challenging, both your own ideas and the ideas of others. Recognizing differences between ideas, between facts and opinions, between explicit claims and unstated assumptions, and between easily explained events and anomalies or puzzles. Applying critical thinking to the speech situation--test a speaker"s ideas.
