Speech Critique Sheet Skills
Movement, space, and visual criteria fall under this skill.
What is "nonverbal"?
This criteria evaluates whether you have enough information in your speech.
What is "substantial"?
This type of communicator respects the integrity of ideas and concerns from the listeners.
What is an "ethical communicator"?
This is the area of the brain that allows us to communication selectively.
What is the cortex?
When we decode a message, we use this to analyze, interpret, and understand it.
What is our frame of reference?
This is the name of the skill that refers to the style of presentation.
What is "Delivery"?
This is the melody in your voice.
What is "pitch"?
This is the study of sounds, structure, and rules of human language.
What is linguistics?
Name two factors that affect our frame of reference.
What are (any of these)?
family-------gender-----------age---------religion—
------health------ level of education------
type of education------------socioeconomic status (SES)
----friends----------culture------travel--------
joy in your life---------trauma in your life
"Verbal" skills deal with these areas.
This means saying words correctly.
What is "pronunciation"?
Many people sometimes mistakenly believe that this guarantees our right to speak without restrictions and to be free to say what we want.
What is "freedom of speech"?
We use this to interpret symbols, sounds, words, and language and to assign meaning to them.
What is our frame of reference?
Name anything that should not be written on note cards for a speech.
What are sentences, paragraphs, or the entire speech?
This is the skill that covers the information conveyed in a speech.
What is content?
Name two of the four things having good "eye contact" indicates.
What are confidence, competence, honesty, and inclusion of the audience (or audience involvement)?
What is "ethnocentrism"?
This is the conscious use of language as a weapon of power, exploitation, manipulation, or oppression.
What is doublespeak?
This will better ensure that your speech contains substantial information and is within the time required for the speech.
What is practicing out loud? (many times)
Voice and sound fall under this skill.
What is "vocal"?
This is the speech with which you speak; it includes pausing.
What is "rate"?
Some critics believe that television and the internet will turn us into these: people who interact less with each other and more with our computer screens.
What are "social isolates"?
Research findings have found that abusive or hurtful language can not only cause psychological harm, but also this.
What is physical harm?
Two ways to practice a speech out loud at home is to give it as you watch yourself in a mirror or to give it to friends or family members. However, doing it this way will give you the best feedback and will best allow you to evaluate yourself.
What is making a video of yourself giving the speech, then watching the video?