Look & Sound Like an Effective Public Speaker

Modes of Delivery

• Manuscript

• Memorized

• Extemporaneous

• Impromptu

The Look

Appearance

• Rules of attire for public speakers?

• Look credible

• Look better than the audience

• CLOTHING• GROOMING• ARTIFACTS

Peek-A-Boo!

Eye Contact

• Why does eye contact remain an important public speaking cue?

Facial Expressions

Gestures• Nonverbal Emblems

• direct verbal translations

• widely understood

• Nonverbal Adapters

• potentially problematic

• unintentional movements

• Nonverbal Illustrators

• used to demonstrate & reinforce verbal messages

Posture

The Sound

Volume• The relative loudness of a speaker’s voice

• Speech delivery --> louder than normal conversation

• Consider:

• size of the room and audience

• whether or not a microphone is available

• the level of background noise

Vocal Variety

•Pitch

•Rate

•Emphasis

I can do that.

I can do that.

I can do that.

I can do that.

I can do that.

Pause

• It is essential that every college student take a public speaking course.

• Non-words (Verbal fillers)

• Um/Uh

• Like

• So

• Yeah

Pronunciation

COMMONLY MISPRONOUNCED WORDSSUPPOSEDLY

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ASKCLOTHES

ESPECIALLY• Any other words?

• The correct formation of word sounds.

Articulation

COMMON MISARTICULATIONOTTA - OUGHT TO

DINT - DIDN’TDUNNO - DON’T KNOW

HAFTA - HAVE TOWANNA - WANT TOWILYA - WILL YOU

• The clarity or forcefulness with which the sounds are made.

Vary Your Vocalics

Recite aloud the following line:

“A frog jumped out of the water.”

Anger

Disgust

Love

Boredom

Relief

Surprise

Pain

Guilt

Uncertainty

Joy

Effective DeliveryThe controlled use of body & voice

Look

• Pay attention to appearance

• Maintain eye contact

• Have facial expressions

• Use appropriate gestures

• Practice good posture

Sound• Adjust your speaking volume

• Use vocal variety

• Use strategic pauses

• Avoid meaningless vocal fillers

• Be conscious of pronunciation & articulation

Nonverbal Immediacy

• The degree of perceived closeness:

physical or psychological

Developing Your Rhetorical Style

My what?

• Magnified gestures

• Longer eye contact

• Builds tension or exaggerates for emphasis

• Uses colorful language to create mood or paint a picture

Dramatic Style

• Energetic

• Enthusiastic

• Excited

Audience knows what the speaker thinks or feels.

Animated Style

Open Style

• Conversational

• Invites audience involvement

• Pleasant, sincere, trusting, self-disclosing

• Not afraid to emote (like Animated Style)

Humorous Style• Relies primarily on humor to engage the

audience

• Think you’re funny?

• Get plenty of feedback to validate your perception!

1. Choose a style that fits you.

2. Don’t stress style over substance.

3. Build on your own strengths as a communicator.

3 things to consider:

• Articulator Agility

• is a Marvelous Ability

• Manipulating the Dexterity

• The Tongue

• The Teeth

• The Lips

• Red leather -- Yellow leather

• Blue blood -- Black blood

• Unique New York

• You know you need unique New York

• To sit in solemn silence

• On a dull dark dock

• In a pestilential prison

• With a life long lock

• Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp, shock

• From a cheap and chippy chopper

• On a big black block

•I slit the sheets

•The sheets I slit

•Upon the slitted sheets I sit

• I am a mother pheasant plucker.

• I pluck mother pheasants.

• I am the pleasantest mother pheasant plucker who ever

did pluck a mother pheasant.

•I am not the fig plucker.

•I’m the fig plucker’s mate.

•I’m out plucking figs because that fig plucker’s

late!

• LOLITA

• LIGHT OF MY LIFE

• FIRE OF MY LOINS

• MY SIN, MY SOUL, LOLITA

• THE TIP OF THE TONGUE

• TAKING A TRIP OF THREE TWIRLS

• LO-LI-TA

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