Public Speaking

196 CHAPTER 14^ Delivering Your Speech

As your nonverbal skills increase, your competence in public speaking increases

correspondingly.

As with all attempts to influence others, the attempt to manage impressions has

ethical implications. Speakers who believe in both the verbal and nonverbal messages

they are sending are said to be sincere, but those who try to create false or misleading

impressions are termed cynical.

Study and Review

Public Speaking: Concepts and Skills for a Diverse Society offers a broad range of

resources that will help you better understand the material in this chapter, complete

assignments, and succeed on tests. Your MindTap resources feature the following:

•   Speech videos with critical viewing questions, speech outlines, and transcripts

•   Interactive versions of this chapter’s Stop and Check activities, as well as and Critical

Thinking Exercises and Application Exercises

•   Speech Builder Express

•   Weblinks related to chapter content

•   Study and review tools such as self-quizzes and an interactive glossary

You can access your online resources for Public Speaking: Concepts and Skills for a

Diverse Society at cengagebrain.com using the access code that came with your book or

that you purchased online.

Key teRmS

The terms below are defined in the margins throughout this chapter.

Reflect on what you’ve

learned.

Review your Flashcards.

articulation 190

communicative

competence 194

confident style 194

conversational style 194

cynical 187

delivery 183

extemporaneous delivery 185

eye contact 189

filled or vocalized pause 193

impromptu delivery 184

manuscript delivery 183

memorized delivery 183

vocalics or paralinguistics 190

sincere 187

stress 190

unfilled pause 193

vocal variations 192

CRitiCaL    thinKing    exeRCiSeS

1. Make a video of one of your rehearsals or speeches and then watch it. Specifically pay
   attention to your gestures, noting your use of purposeful movements and of move-
   ments that betray nervousness. Plan strategies to improve your gestures, eliminating
   those that create negative impressions and strengthening those that produce favorable
   impressions.


2. Watch the recording again. This time, evaluate your eye contact. Throughout your
   speech, notice the way you use your voice. Check for appropriate rate and volume; be
   alert for pauses, and count the number of ums you use, if any. Write a plan to improve
   these nonverbal aspects of delivery.

Copyright 2016 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s).

Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. Cengage Learning reserves the right to remove additional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it.www.ebook3000.com