I think the information that this chapter gave is actually really useful. Research is the basis of a good speech so it’s definitely important to know which sources are credibles; and also obviously helpful to have tips on how to do research depending on the topic. In this chapter there is also a list of a bunch of different “function indicators” of URLS and their meaning. This is definitely helpful because in the future I might know which sources I can trust or not. This chapter definitely gave good advice on how to do research as well as which sources to take information from. 

Chapter 10 talked on delivery methods and managing speech anxiety. The symptoms and causes of speech anxiety are brought up, as well as how to treat it and the cultural differences. Then the chapter switches over to talking on delivery methods such as: impromptu, manuscript, memorized, and extemporaneous. It also brings up the vocal and physical aspects of delivery. 

I think this was one of the most important chapters and also one that I connected to the most. I struggled with severe anxiety so I already knew reading the title that I would be able to relate. I definitely experience many of the symptoms listed, but am glad they talked about treatment because I feel like I have hope that I can get better. I also feel like the delivery portion of this chapter is important too. What is the preparation of a speech without the delivery? Delivery is very important because even if you say the exact same words, just the delivery of the speech can completely change how it is conveyed to the audience. 

- Hailey T. 

Chapter 10 was a great tool and guides help to prepare the presentation.  It shows the structure of your paper. I will use this information  in my speech or presentation in the future.

Another topic chapter 8 covers, is how you can use research directly in your speech to support and clarify ideas. The obvious include illustration, quotes, analogies, and examples. However, sometimes providing definitions and explanations to the topics covered in a speech can be an aid as well. Sometimes topics are complex and not everyone may be familiar with the acronyms and jargon. Statistics are an excellent way to visually demonstrate a point.

Chapter 10 offers numerous methods of delivery. It first refers to speech anxiety; its causes, its effects, and how to address it. The chapter then moves on to Types of delivery. It informs us of the styles of each type of speech and when to use it, as well as its purpose. Chapter 10 subsequently proceeds to tech us of characteristics of speech. This includes vocal quality, intelligibility, grammar, articulation, and vocal variety. It describes the use and impact they may have in the effectiveness of a speech.

The chapter also covers physical characteristics of speech delivery. It mentions personal appearance, body movement and facial expressions. It notes how gestures and eye contact can paly a role in how the audience connects to the speaker. Chapter 10 additionally suggests the use of delivery aids. The purpose of delivery aids is to provide clarity, interest, and make the speech memorable. It proceeds to list types of aids such as images, videos, and models. Most importantly, it notes that these aid should serve a purpose.

As we’ve already done two speeches for this class, I find that this chapter can help strengthen the way we write those speeches. Taking the advice from this chapter, I will try to incorporate some of these steps the next time we have a speech due. This would include first developing a research plan and gathering relevant information from their given principal list of sources. Then, we can organize and place that information where it is needed to write a better speech. This method works very well with persuasive speeches as a strong argument is needed to back up a controversial topic. 

As we’ve already done two speeches for this class, I find that this chapter can help strengthen the way we write those speeches. Taking the advice from this chapter, I will try to incorporate some of these steps the next time we have a speech due. This would include first developing a research plan and gathering relevant information from their given principal list of sources. Then, we can organize and place that information where it is needed to write a better speech. This method works very well with persuasive speeches as a strong argument is needed to back up a controversial topic. 

It also gives us suggestions for searching, checking another search engine and / or another site, and determining if everyone has basically the same information. Add the appropriate mediation source to your repository and take notes.

Chapter 10 is the management of speech anxiety. First, we need to understand that anxiety can be controlled through behavior and behavior. It makes the fear of communication worse. We take a positive attitude towards it. Let it be under control. 

We want to give a speech in practice to help you gain self-confidence.Use presentation aids appropriately in your presentation. Try to relax.

 

Chapter 10 covers a serious topic of managing anxiety primarily with giving a speech and methods of delivery. Anxiety can be detrimental to not just to one’s mental but also physical health and when incorporating a speech some individuals can build anxiety while presenting a speech. Chapter 10 gives tips on how to not just manage anxiety but ways to approach speech delivery and the aspect that go into adequate delivery. Chapter 10 also gives presentational aids to give a constructed presentation such as communication tools and ways to present with Powerpoint and Prezi sources. Overall Chapter 10 was a great chapter to read that gave great tips for future presentations to benefit your approach and anxiety relief exercises. 

This chapter discussed the importance of having a strong research plan to increase knowledge on the topic and how to get the audience interested/persuaded in speeches. To start, research involves understanding what criteria the teacher/event is expecting and thinking about the direction you want for the speech. It’s advised that students should give themselves plenty of time for the assignment and gather more information than they think they’ll need. At the same time, students should think about “quality over quantity”. As such, they should think critically about what types of credible and relevant information/evidence they should include - examples that the audience can relate to, testimonies, and stats to emphasize a certain problem. Using this research plan involving various sources, students can support their main points and be confident in their message.

From this chapter, I learned more about the importance of finding a suitable topic where I can find plenty of sources. This is important because the more sources we have, the more we can 

verify the information we are finding and ensure it’s credibility. This chapter also brought up the use of library materials and article databases when we want to access more information. I’ll be sure to give this a try when I want advanced searches and specific details that the internet can’t provide. Furthermore, I struggle  with balancing my logos with sufficient pathos. It makes it challenging at times to keep the audience interested in my messages. To improve this, I should try more hypothetical or illustrative examples to give everyone a vivid picture of my message and keep them interested. 

Chapter 10

This chapter discussed the importance of making a strong delivery and how to do so. This chapter explained that speech anxieties and communication apprehensions can be resolved using systematic desentization. By imagining optimistic results, being familiar with the audience and presentation surroundings, students can be more relaxed when delivering speeches. It is also important to mention that even good speeches can be ruined with a poor delivery and as such, practice is necessary. When delivering, students need to consider how to use vocal quality, pacing, gesticulation, and facial expressions to increase their pathos. It makes students seem more sincere, natural, and confident with their presentations. Other things students should consider are presentation aids that can leave an impression or act as an interesting type of evidence. 

From this chapter, I learned a good delivery comes from positive visualization and practice. To gain more confidence,  I’ll be sure to be prepared. I usually use notecards but to sound less mechanical and more natural, I should learn to be more flexible with my wording and focus more on other delivery aspects. I intend to go over my speech by parts and memorize impactful sections like my hooks or when I’m introducing examples that the audience will be interested in. For these parts, I intend to make eye contact often and use my voice to stress statistics or the consequences of the problems I’m introducing. Furthermore, I’ll try out new things such as including a simple prop to demonstrate my points. It’ll attract the audience while getting my point across in a simple way. 

Chapter 8 also provided a number of resources that are available for researching from personal experiences, libraries, interviews, social media and the internet. In addition, this section gave helpful tips about how to research and identify the reliability as well as credibility of these information resources in which I learned a few new ways to look at information.

In Chapter 10 of Seiler’s textbook it describes ways to manage speech anxiety and effectively deliver your speech. The beginning of the chapter gives examples of the different symptoms a speaker can experience during presentations and reminds us of how everyone experiences a certain level of anxiety before giving a presentation. Another section of the chapter gave insight to some of the reasons why people experience speech anxiety which helps those who can relate with these reasons. 

Chapter 10 went over ways to reduce speech anxiety and provided exercises that every student will find helpful. The chapter included methods of delivery and the physical aspects of what goes into delivering a speech. It’s a good reminder to be mindful of how a speaker can use vocal ranges and variety to have sufficient sound quality in a speech. The chapter concluded with a number of ways to prepare for speech including different ways to practice that I found very useful. 

Chapter ten discusses all the different types of anxiety people get when delivering a speech and shows us ways to cope with it. The chapter shows us that feeling nervous before giving a speech is very common and even people who have to perform or give speeches often still get nervous. One thing the chapter recommends is to prepare by practicing the delivery as much as possible. Going in without ever reciting the speech can be a problem because you may not be organzied leading to mistakes, which causes a lot of anxiety. Giving the speech beforehand in front of someelse can be a great help. This chapter will definitely help me out because I am someone who gets anxious when giving speeches and talking in front of others. Although I feel as though I get less nervous nowadays, all the tips in the chapter will be useful. 

Diego Ortiz

Chapter 8 provides information on how one can find information and prepare for a specific topic or presentation. This is helpful for the preparation aspect of presentations and speeches as it is necessary to prepare thoroughly in order to create a presentation or speech worth listening to.

Chapter 10 explains a lot of the anxiety and nervous feelings that are associated with public speaking and presentation. The chapter also provided a lot of information on how one can mitigate this. I found this chapter especially helpful because I struggle with social and public speaking anxiety. I also felt that the tips and tricks regarding how to speak, volume and pronunciation was very helpful.

This chapter has changed my thinking about speeches. I must say, I had a different understanding about speeches. I thought of them as part of a course requirement, but I learned that speeches and presentations are part of the expectations of many jobs. So, giving speeches goes beyond this course. Wherever I work, I might be asked to communicate to others in this way. Also, I noticed that speech organization is similar to the way one organizes an essay. A speech, like an essay, must include a thesis statement and supporting facts. If I am not excited about my topic, I may not be able to interest listeners. 

I learned the details of how to organize a speech after reading chapter 10 by William J. Sieler.  After narrowing the thesis, the speech will need to cover the most important parts of the topic in an organized way. 

The introduction and conclusion are ways to captivate the listeners and give them a summary. Outlines are constructed to keep a speech organized. 

This chapter tightened up my thinking about how to present the material of my speeches. The body of the speech covers the main points in the best order to get the content over to the audience. The introduction to a speech is like a trailer to a movie; it covers the entire speech as brief as possible. The conclusion is a wrap up of everything covered.  I found that I need to work on my outlines, specifically preliminary and presentational. I have heard and watched speeches where the presenter was not engaging because the content was disorganized. I learned it is important to know the material, have content that is well-organized, and engage with the audience through eye contact, interesting visuals, and body movements that flow with the speech. 

Making connections enables people carry out their daily activities effectively. This is achieved through knowing how to communicate effectively and create friendship as well as bring an understanding among people. Goog communication leads to great achievements since people are able to communicate well and understand each other well and a lot it helps in solving conflicts among people. Being able to communicate well is one thing applied by mediators since they are very important in mediating between two conflicting parties and, make them come to an agreement. Thus, this is a very important and useful course since of can be applied in the day-to-day life. In communication comprehension the most extreme type of discourse uneasiness, a tension disorder related with one or the other genuine or expected correspondence with somebody. The author expresses an unwinding procedure intended to diminish the strained quality related with nervousness. The author presents this in chapter 8 of the book on how an author can be able to develop a research topic speech.

This is a very important aspect since it can be applied in so many fields. This is mostly important in interviews where a person is expected to express themselves through expressing themselves as well as their ability to make speech in front of an audience. Also, when making audits at work and board meetings, people need good techniques of speech making and speaking to be able to communicate effectively.

Handwriting instruction benefits from exercises that help young children build muscle memory, strength, and dexterity.

Chapter 8 is all about developing a research plan and finding the right, credible sources. It talks of figuring out what “supporting materials” your speech needs, and where to find them. Gathering information is uber important but it has to be from a good source. The internet, yourself, social media, interviews, and the library are listed sources. The internet and social media must be used safely because there are many lies contained within each. I think this chapter is a good read because many people don't think of themselves or interviews as possible speech sources. They also give good tips on how to do research, for example, beginning your research early, taking notes, maintaining a bibliography, etc. They also mentioned testimonies which I thought to be pretty interesting. 

Chapter 10

I found this chapter very informative because it speaks on how to manage anxiety when delivering a speech. I used to be so fearless about public speaking when I was younger. But as I have grown, so too has my anxiety, and it has become pretty hard to not feel uneasy speaking in public. They go through discussing symptoms, causes, how to manage, and how to treat speech anxiety. Systematic desensitization is a technique that was mentioned to help reduce anxiety, which I will definitely be trying. This chapter also talks about methods of delivery such as impromptu, manuscript, memorized, and extemporaneous. It also covers the physical and vocal aspects of delivery.  
 - Hailey

This chapter gives information about how to collect data from different informational sources such as the internet, social media, and the library to support and clarify the materials presented through examples, testimonials, and statistics. I feel like this was exactly what I needed to help me complete my recent speech. With reading this chapter I was able to gather information from different informational sources and apply it to my speech incorporating statistics from past and present disparities. 

Chapter ten also aids in giving readers different methods of delivery in speech. A few types of speech delivery the chapter outlines are: impromptu, manuscript, memorized and extemporaneous. Other aspects of deliver covered are both vocal and physical aspects of delivery. Finally the chapter ends in demonstrating different types of presentational aids and softwares. 

Chapter ten also aids in giving readers different methods of delivery in speech. A few types of speech delivery the chapter outlines are: impromptu, manuscript, memorized and extemporaneous. Other aspects of deliver covered are both vocal and physical aspects of delivery. Finally the chapter ends in demonstrating different types of presentational aids and softwares. 

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Chapter 10

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Chapter ten talks about organizing your speech. It first talks about how to develop the main points, and how to develop an effective thesis statement along with your conclusion. Chapter ten also talks about how to support the main points, how to transition to another topic, how to gain attention from your audience. I also find chapter 10 of the book extremely useful and it tells you everything you need to develop your speech correctly. They also give examples which are also useful. What I can take from chapter 10 is how to outline my speech better because the examples that they show are very detailed so I can take how they did it and try to model it just like the book. 

With both, informative and persuasive speech due soon, I can use most things that I read from the book.
Brandon Le - Spring 2023

Later, the author teaches us how to properly use the collected information. The author provides four types of materials that can support and clarify our ideas, such as testimony, examples, definitions, and statistical data. This teaches me how to write a speech that is more powerful, persuasive, and truthful.
                                                                    

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