Monday, May 03, 2004
Finally over
The time has come to polish off this class and my undergraduate experience. Hope you all enjoy. Dr. G. I hope that you have good luck finding a job and even better luck getting out of Ohio. I really enjoyed the class.
Without further adieu:
COMM 101 Question: Given your experiences this semester, what advice would you give to someone who wanted to produce a policy (deliberative) speech for presentation before a live audience? You may draw from Silva Rhetoricae, as well as from other sources on the web, and from class notes, but your answer should come mostly from your personal experience co-producing your group's speech this semester. Your post should include four links, including at least one to a classmate's answer to this question.
I strongly believe that no speech can successfully persuade an audience unless you know what the audience wants to hear and is willing to accept. gallup and the National Election Studies offer excellent advice on how to poll your audience to determine what their anchor point is on your potential policy. Once you understand their identity point you should research past legislation and influential groups that pertain and associate to your proposed policy to create a scale so that you can implement the Social Judgment theory
. Ideally you can create a scale with extreme liberal and conservative ideas on opposing sides with 15 or 20 other points in between them relative to their level of liberalism and conservatism. This step is extremely advantageous because it allows you to determine the latitude of acceptance and the latitude of rejection for you your audience. You must take baby steps when trying to pass controversial legislation because if you don’t you may land in the latitude of rejection and alienate members of your audience. It is very important to avoid this because it is nearly impossible to persuade people to agree with you when you are alienating them and contradicting their beliefs. So choose policies that fit into your audience’s latitude of acceptance and move them in the direction of what your overall goal.
After deciding on your policy it is time to prepare the speech. Kyle
notes that every word of every sentence counts because you are trying to seduce the audience into agreeing with you. I agree with Brie that you should use simple language that is easy to say and easy to understand. You don’t want to alienate your audience by using big words they don’t understand and you don’t want to trip over your words during the delivery. Whenever possible avoid controversial words or phrases because once again they set off alarms in people’s heads and instantly alienate them. S.L.A.P.
managed to give a speech supporting gay rights without me realizing that it supported gay rights. They did such a good job not mentioning the phrase that I didn’t even realize that their speech supported it.
When deciding upon the content of your speech you should consider tools such as ethos, logos, and pathos as well as literary devices that are identified and explained by Silvia Rhetorica. These are wonderful devices for enhancing the persuasiveness of a speech.
Ethos pertains to the persona of the speaker and also to the character of the audience. You should attempt to create a speech that will be enhanced by the qualities and reputation of the speaker. Giving George Bush a speech that advocates world peace would just be ridiculous because know one would believe it based on his prior actions.
The pathos of a speech is the emotional appeal of a speech. Try to strengthen the need for your policy by striking the nerves of your audience. Draw upon awful events that affected your area in the past but could have been prevented by your proposed legislation. Adam Ethan and Allison’s group supported gun control by referring to a police officer that was shot and killed, and the Big Tymers support anti-racial profiling by referencing an African American cop that was nearly beaten to death because of the color of his skin. Pull the pity card whenever you can by explaining how children, seniors and other potential victims are at risk without your policy in place.
Logos refers to the logical elements of the speech and can greatly enhance to the persuasion of the speech if used correctly. Group 3 used statistics to show the education level of the average user of peer-to-peer file sharing. By doing so they were able strengthen the support for their policy by indicating that the people that are at risk of being arrested for peer-to-peer file sharing are kids that don’t understand the consequences of their actions.
After you are satisfied with the content of your speech you must organize it in a way so that it flows and the audience can easily detect your main points. Bortz
explains that it is always advantageous to create a speech that begins with a hometown hello and thanks because it appeals to the crowd. The Big Tymers did a wonderful job of this in their speech. Then you should tell the audience what you are going to tell them about, then tell them, and finally tell them what you just told them. As Allisons noted repetition is very important because it keeps the topic and its importance fresh in the audiences mind. Remind them what is important and give them a vision of how their lives would be improved with your policy in place. Finally ask them again for their support because without it your policy is destined to fail.
Now that you have organized your thoughts it is time to belt them out to your audience. I believe that delivery is the most important aspect of a deliberative speech. The speaker must seem energetic and appeal to the crowd. He/she must keep the crowd engaged and present himself/herself as genuine and sincere. He/she must seem understanding and able to relate to the issue. A speaker can achieve this by practicing the drills in Mcguffy’s readerand by repeating the speech over and over again until he/she realizes the proper voice inflections and emphasis to put on each word to make the speech as engaging and persuasive as it can possibly be. This will help you avoid a boring monotone delivery or a sing songy delivery. I think Scott sums it up best: “… a good speaker can realize that pitch variation can transform a dull speech into an emotional and believable performance.” The speaker must make the audience believe that the policy would actually improve their lives and he/she can accomplish that by presenting genuine hometown character, and putting sincere emphasis on the main points of the speech to enhance their importance. Oh yeah, practice, practice, practice because you will never know which voice manipulations to use on which words if you don’t hear each sentence in every possible manner.
Without further adieu:
COMM 101 Question: Given your experiences this semester, what advice would you give to someone who wanted to produce a policy (deliberative) speech for presentation before a live audience? You may draw from Silva Rhetoricae, as well as from other sources on the web, and from class notes, but your answer should come mostly from your personal experience co-producing your group's speech this semester. Your post should include four links, including at least one to a classmate's answer to this question.
I strongly believe that no speech can successfully persuade an audience unless you know what the audience wants to hear and is willing to accept. gallup and the National Election Studies offer excellent advice on how to poll your audience to determine what their anchor point is on your potential policy. Once you understand their identity point you should research past legislation and influential groups that pertain and associate to your proposed policy to create a scale so that you can implement the Social Judgment theory
. Ideally you can create a scale with extreme liberal and conservative ideas on opposing sides with 15 or 20 other points in between them relative to their level of liberalism and conservatism. This step is extremely advantageous because it allows you to determine the latitude of acceptance and the latitude of rejection for you your audience. You must take baby steps when trying to pass controversial legislation because if you don’t you may land in the latitude of rejection and alienate members of your audience. It is very important to avoid this because it is nearly impossible to persuade people to agree with you when you are alienating them and contradicting their beliefs. So choose policies that fit into your audience’s latitude of acceptance and move them in the direction of what your overall goal.
After deciding on your policy it is time to prepare the speech. Kyle
notes that every word of every sentence counts because you are trying to seduce the audience into agreeing with you. I agree with Brie that you should use simple language that is easy to say and easy to understand. You don’t want to alienate your audience by using big words they don’t understand and you don’t want to trip over your words during the delivery. Whenever possible avoid controversial words or phrases because once again they set off alarms in people’s heads and instantly alienate them. S.L.A.P.
managed to give a speech supporting gay rights without me realizing that it supported gay rights. They did such a good job not mentioning the phrase that I didn’t even realize that their speech supported it.
When deciding upon the content of your speech you should consider tools such as ethos, logos, and pathos as well as literary devices that are identified and explained by Silvia Rhetorica. These are wonderful devices for enhancing the persuasiveness of a speech.
Ethos pertains to the persona of the speaker and also to the character of the audience. You should attempt to create a speech that will be enhanced by the qualities and reputation of the speaker. Giving George Bush a speech that advocates world peace would just be ridiculous because know one would believe it based on his prior actions.
The pathos of a speech is the emotional appeal of a speech. Try to strengthen the need for your policy by striking the nerves of your audience. Draw upon awful events that affected your area in the past but could have been prevented by your proposed legislation. Adam Ethan and Allison’s group supported gun control by referring to a police officer that was shot and killed, and the Big Tymers support anti-racial profiling by referencing an African American cop that was nearly beaten to death because of the color of his skin. Pull the pity card whenever you can by explaining how children, seniors and other potential victims are at risk without your policy in place.
Logos refers to the logical elements of the speech and can greatly enhance to the persuasion of the speech if used correctly. Group 3 used statistics to show the education level of the average user of peer-to-peer file sharing. By doing so they were able strengthen the support for their policy by indicating that the people that are at risk of being arrested for peer-to-peer file sharing are kids that don’t understand the consequences of their actions.
After you are satisfied with the content of your speech you must organize it in a way so that it flows and the audience can easily detect your main points. Bortz
explains that it is always advantageous to create a speech that begins with a hometown hello and thanks because it appeals to the crowd. The Big Tymers did a wonderful job of this in their speech. Then you should tell the audience what you are going to tell them about, then tell them, and finally tell them what you just told them. As Allisons noted repetition is very important because it keeps the topic and its importance fresh in the audiences mind. Remind them what is important and give them a vision of how their lives would be improved with your policy in place. Finally ask them again for their support because without it your policy is destined to fail.
Now that you have organized your thoughts it is time to belt them out to your audience. I believe that delivery is the most important aspect of a deliberative speech. The speaker must seem energetic and appeal to the crowd. He/she must keep the crowd engaged and present himself/herself as genuine and sincere. He/she must seem understanding and able to relate to the issue. A speaker can achieve this by practicing the drills in Mcguffy’s readerand by repeating the speech over and over again until he/she realizes the proper voice inflections and emphasis to put on each word to make the speech as engaging and persuasive as it can possibly be. This will help you avoid a boring monotone delivery or a sing songy delivery. I think Scott sums it up best: “… a good speaker can realize that pitch variation can transform a dull speech into an emotional and believable performance.” The speaker must make the audience believe that the policy would actually improve their lives and he/she can accomplish that by presenting genuine hometown character, and putting sincere emphasis on the main points of the speech to enhance their importance. Oh yeah, practice, practice, practice because you will never know which voice manipulations to use on which words if you don’t hear each sentence in every possible manner.
Sunday, May 02, 2004
Weekend?
What weekend? Once again I managed to complete a weekend and remember about 3 hours of it. I think if you combined the total hours of memories that I have from my 4 years of college it would be shorter than the Lord of the Rings trilogy. This leads me to agree with Kyle. I may have not blogged every day but I was damn close, and you can't expect me to blog everyday because I forget to do everything, I think it goes right along with blacking out about 3 or 4 times a week. My group will probably pull out with around a B+ for the speech and both of my partners have blogged almost everyday as well and we got the rhetorical figures up with the quickness. So Dr. G how about you hook a graduating senior and his esteemed colleagues up with some A's.
Thursday, April 29, 2004
2 more classes
I agree with the rest of the class that everyone did very well delivering their speeches. I would have rather saw everybody do one good speech than try and cram in three shitty speeches. Hopefully I can get to sleep at a reasonable hour tonight because I have been dead on my feet for the past couple of days. I have to tell you that when I came back to my room from class on wednesday I was still so drunk that I passed out taking my shirt off. I woke up 3 hours later with my shirt over my head.
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
I love it when you shake it in that thong
Alex and Andrea have been discussing some pretty important political issues, but I believe that it is my obligation to the class to inform you about the most influential piece of legislation that is coming up. Sure the war and abortion are important political issues but this issue far surpases them, in utter ridiculousness. The law is the thong law. Some moron senator is trying to pass legislation that would punish people that are wearing thongs that are visible. Now I know this sounds impossible, but he is acutally supporting it and the 6 year prison sentence that it inflicts. It is nice to know that someone has there priorities straight. Where would the world be without tools like this. Thank you Janet Jackson.
Monday, April 26, 2004
Dorm Life is the Life for Me
It will be nice to finally get your own place Seth but you can't overlook the positives of dorm living. First off you can completely destroy your room becuase you know that you will only be there for 6 months. I can't even imagine trying to keep my room clean, why else would Denison arrange it so that female suites neighbor males sweets, they expect the girls to clean the guys rooms. Secondly, sure our rooms cost a ridiculous amount, but if you average in the price of utililies which Im sure are astronomical on this campus, it doesn't seem all that bad. Third, how hard is it to find a party. You don't have this same luxury when you leave dorm life. All you have to do is walk through the hallway until you hear a loud room and there you have yourself a good time. And how would you ever be able to constantly here people having sex in the shower while you are shaving, how can you possible give it up. I will personally miss dorm life, because I think once its gone so is a lot of fun.
Sunday, April 25, 2004
Its Raining Men
Sure the weather may have been shitty here, but relatively it was fuckin beautiful. I flew up to Ithaca, NY to see my girlfriend this weekend and the weather their was just depressing. When I left at 5 in the morn on Friday it was 64F here and when I touched down in NY at noon it was 49F. How can the temperature drop like 15F from 5am-12pm. Of course the weather stayed around that temperature until I just returned to Columbus at 10pm and the temperature was 70F. So, in perspective the weather here is beautiful and we should all learn to appreciate it.
So I visited Cornell to see my girlfriend because it was her last formal and she was modeling in a fashion show as well. I think that it is OK to say that it was more fun than the mcguffy drills that we probably did in class on Friday. Since I didn't get to do them Im sure that my speech will suffer so I better put in about 3 hours of practice before class tommorrow. Honestly, how would we survive without Mcguffys.
So I visited Cornell to see my girlfriend because it was her last formal and she was modeling in a fashion show as well. I think that it is OK to say that it was more fun than the mcguffy drills that we probably did in class on Friday. Since I didn't get to do them Im sure that my speech will suffer so I better put in about 3 hours of practice before class tommorrow. Honestly, how would we survive without Mcguffys.
Monday, April 19, 2004
No too sexy
We need more blogs like Ethans. Now that will really lift a mans spirits. I think she has the next American Idol locked down, am I right.
