[COMM 1112] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (61 pages long)

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1112
• Professor: Sara Picklesimer

Document Summary

Speaking in public, creating confident presentations, and listenability. Feedback: self and peer: strengths, needs improvement, goals for next speech, be specific use examples, consider what you hear and see, criticism should be constructive. Let listenability guide you: the degree to which a speech is easy to access, understand, and interact with listen to, encourages you to keep your public listeners in mind during every step of the public speaking process. If effective listening is the audience"s responsibility, creating and achieving listenability is yours. Keys to listenability: strategy, choices you make before the presentation topic choice, organization, research, structure, organize your message and make it accessible to listeners, support, helps audience believe in your ideas, style, delivery. Listenability goals: satisfy listeners" preference for conversational patterns, readers and listeners are different: written vs. conversational style. Speaker"s energy extra adrenaline: unfamiliar experience, don"t focus on what could go wrong, lack of experience, different skill levels, uncomfortable being center of attention.