Delivery Inventory

For the last speech, the Sales Pitch, please write a few sentences rating your performance. Discuss what worked well and what needs work in the following areas:

1. Verbal (content and use of language)
2. Kinesics (body movements and gestures)
3. Paralanguage (vocal pitch, tone, volume, etc.)
4. Organization and time management

Speech for next week: "The Best Advice I Ever Got" 2 min: special attention to delivery and time management

Delivery

Improve Verbal Expression

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Nonverbal Communication

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Be able to define the following and give an example of its use in communication exchanges:

1. Semiotics
2. Kinesics
3. Microexpressions
4. Signing
5. Projecting
6. Paralanguage
7. Proxemics

Sales Pitch Speech Assignment

• Goal: Persuade a college audience to buy a product or service by appealing to their needs. Sales speeches incorporate the principles of persuasive speaking in a familiar format and can be fun as well.
• Requirements: Five-minute speech. Visual aids: one required (the product or image of the product). Sources: at least two, cited using MLA. Notecards: five permitted. 
• Recommendations: The challenge of this speech is to choose a product or service that would be useful or relevant for your particular audience. The theme of the speech should complete the sentence, “I want my audience to purchase…” The most compelling research sources are those that are unbiased, not product websites. Failure to cite sources or meet the time requirement will result in a maximum possible grade of “D”.
• Due: 2/24

Suggested outline

Something to inspire

Ch. 2 Review

1. What are the personal, professional and public benefits of enhancing your public speaking skills?
2. What is the difference between the linear and transactional model of communication?
3. Define and give an original example of each of the elements of the communication process.
4. Which of the elements of the communication process do you think has the greatest impact on the way a message is interpreted. Explain.
5. What are the three types of speeches? For each of the three types of speeches, give two examples of an occasion or situation in which that type of speech might be given.
6. List the eleven speaking competencies. For each competency listed, describe the differences between the advanced speaker and the inexperienced speaker.