COMS 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Formal Language, Anxiety, Critical Thinking
12 Jan 2017
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Public speaking: a way of making ideas public; sharing ideas with other people to influence others. Positive nervousness: state in which an individual is not victimized by nervousness; they are vitalized by and in control of it. One minute of speaking = 1 to 2 hours of preparation. Proper preparation reduces state fright by up to 75% Critical thinking: focused, organized thinking; ability to see clearly the relationships among ideas. Speaker: the person who is presenting an oral message to a listener. Message: whatever a speaker communicates to someone else. Goal of public speaking: have intended message be the message that is actually communicated. Message depends on both verbal and nonverbal components. Channel: the means by which a message is communicated. Listener: the person who receives the speaker"s message. Frame of reference: the total of the listener"s knowledge, experience, goals, values, attitudes. What a speaker says is filtered through listener"s frame of reference.
