Thursday, April 16, 2009
Week 13, Discussion 3
One concept that I learned from chapter 12 was managing your voice during your speech. "Good voice volume, variations in vocal qualities, minimal pauses, and clear articulation, and pronunciation, are essential for effective public speaking" (305). Voice volume is important because the audience members should be able to hear you without straining to do so. Rate and higher pitch are important because it shows that you are excited about your speech. Pronunciation and articulation are important because while giving a speech you don't want to leave off the endings to words and you want to know how to say them right.
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Hello Colie,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that the excerpt from chapter 12 "good voice volume, variations in voice qualities, minimal pauses, clear aticulation, and pronunciation are essential for effective public speaking." If no one got anything else out of that chapter I think this was one of the most if not the important pieces of information. It completely sums up how to effectively deliver your speech to ensure your audience can obtain all of the key points and important aspects of the speech. Making sure you practice each of these aspects of delivery is essential because then you will be prepared to deliver a smooth and remembering speech.
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ReplyDeleteHello,
ReplyDeleteI also found of lot of interesting and useful information in chapter twelve as well. I felt very knowledgeable about not only managing your voice during a speech but how you speak to make your audience feel included in your speech as well. All the tips like good articulation and good volume are very useful to think about when practicing and performing our next speech. I never really thought that those kind of things factored that much into a speech but they really do help make a speech complete and that much better. Showing enthusiasm are also very important in a speech and I am defiantly going to try to factor it in a lot more into my next speech to help get my audience more involved with my speech. I am glad to see you found this chapter material just as useful and interesting as I did.