What Makes a Good Public Speaker?

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What Makes a Good Public Speaker?

What might be any underlying guilt that prompted this speaker to use either mortification or victimage?

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Watch an entire episode of your favorite sitcom. With this episode, apply Burke’s Dramatism to determine the motive of speakers.
Take one scene and identify all five elements of Burke’s Dramatistic Pentad: Act, scene, agent, agency, and purpose. Explain.
Using the pentad, determine why the speaker selected rhetorical strategy to identify with the audience. (The audience would be the receiver of his or her message). In other words can you identify the speaker’s primary motive within this scene? Explain.
What might be any underlying guilt that prompted this speaker to use either mortification or victimage? What did he or she do or say that helped you determine this? Explain.
After completing the three parts above, make an assessment as to how valid you think Burke’s Dramatism is in determining one’s motive in communication.

Explain how culture shapes verbal and nonverbal communication, utilizing Bevan.

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Explain two points detailing why it is so important to be aware of culture when thinking about communication, utilizing Bevan.
Explain how culture shapes verbal and nonverbal communication, utilizing Bevan.
Describe the relationship between culture and two other themes that are central to culture from this list, utilizing Bevan:
Gender(Chapters 2 and 3)
High versus low context cultures (Chapter 3)
Dominant cultures versus co-cultures (Chapter 3)
Individualism and collectivism (Chapter 3)
Perceptual filters (Chapter 3)
Explain how paying attention to culture can help a person improve as a communicator, utilizing Bevan and, if you choose, one of the supplemental videos you watched.
The Culture and Communication paper

Must be 750 words (three double-spaced pages) in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.) resource.

Must utilize an academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources.
Must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.) guide.

Discuss and analyse a case of activism of your choice.

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Discuss and analyse a case of activism of your choice. The analysis should go beyond the description of a campaign or the actions of a single organisation to incorporate the following features

Communication is the main focus and how it effects social change and how we understand change in society (uk) focusing on activism and how people organise themselves to promote a particular kind of change in society

Explain what emotional and cognitive response the audience should have.

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Fully flesh out ALL components from your analysis within the paper. ~Using Chapter 9-16, Choose the chapter/ theorist you feel fits the children’s book most and then use it to analyze the book. ~ Analyze all the patterns, omissions, etc from the previous section. ~Provide a detailed and thorough interpretation/application of rhetorical theory. Make relevant references to the reading as evidence. ~Provide a creative and critical thinking process to make inferences and persuade. ~Explain what emotional and cognitive response the audience should have. ~Offer a detailed and thorough interpretation of the reading’s context, which explains the social, or personal meanings that the rhetor used in persuading the audience. ~Make relevant references to the reading as evidence

Is your intent to inform or persuade? How can you accomplish the intended goal?

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Answer each question thoughtfully and fully to earn all points possible.

Analyze the rhetorical situation.
a. Is your intent to inform or persuade? How can you accomplish the intended goal?
b. Who is your message directed to? Adults for the adult education
c. Where will your design be viewed?

What will your design piece be? Magnet
a. Why? Justify exactly why you’ve chosen that medium and explain why you think it’s a persuasive way to get others’ attention.
b. What are your design goals?
Where will the eye be drawn exactly? What information is emphasized? What content will you group together? How many times will the eye stop?
One alignment? Two very different alignments? Describe.
What elements will be repeated? Why?
What colors will you use and why? Explain.

What King content will you include? List the content you’ll include and next to each detail, explain WHY you are including that information.
Will you include a web address? Explain. www. or or
Will you share a physical address? Explain. Bristol campus or Knoxville campus where the COMM program meets?
Other info?
4. What content will you include about yourself? Draft your “story” in 2-4 sentences, and explain WHY you are including that information.

Will you develop your own tagline? Or summarize your career goal? Or describe what made King your top choice?
Will you include a picture or yourself? Or sign your name next to your story to identify the storyteller?

Helpful ideas:

Chapter 7:

Chapter 8: 2 parts

Explain the critical or cultural implications of your topic, then detail the plan of action you advocate to address or improve the situation.

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My topic is pay gaps in sports ………… for my human communications class. One big “solution” for this would be advertisement….

You are to craft a 1,200-1,500 word formal essay in which you clearly identify and discuss the topic on which you are writing and the position you are taking. Explain the critical/cultural implications of your topic, then detail the plan of action you advocate to address or improve the situation. You are expected to work through you argument systematically in a series of vivid and clearly organized paragraphs, with each paragraph presenting and adequately developing one key idea. Your writing should be appropriate in tone and quality for a college-level class and should be free of errors of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and style.
For maximum persuasive effectiveness, skillfully blend ethos, pathos, and logos to convince your audience that change is necessary and that the change for which you advocate is appropriate. You should use a logical, comprehensible system of argumentation (e.g., the Toulmin Model, deductive/inductive reasoning: see Chapter 3) to empower your readers to understand your argument.
Begin your essay with an introduction that previews the main ideas and organization of your paper and features a strong, direct thesis statement. Conclude your essay by summarizing your main points and leave your audience with a strong or intriguing parting thought to encourage us to go out and undertake the change you are advocating.

You are expected to conduct significant research for this project to support your claims and demonstrate to your audience that you are informed on your topic and qualified to advocate real- life action. You must cite at least five credible sources in your paper, and all sources must be credible, unbiased, and should add something significant to your argument. Cite all sources in the body of your text in MLA or APA style, and attach an appropriately formatted MLA/APA reference page at the end of your essay (note: your reference page does not count toward the six- page minimum).
You will be assessed on the completeness, depth, and organization of your argument; the strength of connection between your social issue and the solution you advocate; your ability to skillfully integrate research and the quality of your sources; and your spelling, grammar, and language use. See your syllabus and download the document “Editing Notes” from uiuLearn for expectations on written assignments.

Integrate relevant insight and experiences explaining how these ideas can be applied into your own life.

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You will (1) post one essay on the COMM 2150 discussion forum and (2) respond to two classmates’ postings.

Discussion Topic:

Watch the YouTube from Sienfield, “The Close Talker.”
View the PowerPoint on Proxemics.
Review Hall’s theory of “Proxemics” (Martin & Nakayama, pp. 284 and Course Reading Packet, pp. 80-82)
Experiment with invading someone’s personal space and be careful under current circumstances.
Analyze your experience using the theory of Proxemics.

How to post your essays:

1. Read the Discussion topic for the chapter
2. Compose your answer on a word processor first. You are responsible for lost documents, even if it’s due to a server crash, so keep a back-up copy of EVERYTHING you submit on this site.
3. Preview your comments to check for spelling and grammar.
4. To post your message, click on the Reply box, at the end of these instructions, and cut and paste your discussion post into the box.

Requirements for the essays:

Each discussion essay should include the following:
• Answer each part of the question.
• Incorporate vocabulary, definitions and ideas from the readings and lectures.
• Include references: the page numbers of the text or the title of the lecture. Place these in parenthesis, right into the sentence in which you use the information.
• Integrate relevant insight and experiences explaining how these ideas can be applied into your own life.

Requirements for responses to classmates’ postings:

1. You will learn a lot from reading the essays posted by your classmates. You read other students’ posts by clicking on the Discussion tab and then the Chapter. All the students’ posts for that chapter should appear.
2. After you’ve read your classmates’ posts, choose two students to respond to. Please reply to students who have answered a different question than you did. Type your response on a word processor and save a back-up copy. Preview your comments to check for spelling and grammar.
3. To post your reply, click on the Reply box at the end of the post. Paste your reply in the text box.

Requirements for the responses:

A satisfactory response entails more than “good idea” or “I agree.” The response should be one paragraph in length and should address the following:
• Explain WHY you agree or disagree with the essay.
• Include vocabulary and/or concepts from the readings or lectures.
• Cite the source of the concepts.
• Add a new insight/example of your own.