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*SCOM*
Communicating Public Issues
The Group Process
Public Speaking
*SCOM*
100
This action requires taking into account the concerns of multiple parties, considering multiple approaches and their associated benefits and consequences, as well as using ethical appeals to persuade the audience of your favored call of action. For example, we incorporated the values of fairness and responsibilities to argue for heightened college preparation.
What is tackling public issues?
100
A crucial component of beginning the study of public issues; was used both to identify our public issue and to identify possible approaches for addressing it.
What is brainstorming?
100
This refers to the nervousness involved with giving a presentation that allows for optimum performance; for example, its presence allowed us to perform well on our informative speech by energizing us for success. Knowledge of this concept has taught us that this nervousness can be manageable and beneficial.
What is functional speech anxiety?
200
We learned that public issues are these, meaning there is no one "right" solution to the problem. There are a variety of approaches to addressing the issues, each with their own benefits and consequences. This means that by implementing one approach certain aspects of the issue may be alleviated while others are heightened.
What are "wicked problems"?
200
A major hurdle to success within our group; defined as the phenomenon that occurs when the desire for harmony or conformity among group members results in irrational or poor decision-making outcomes. (HINT: This may have caused our poor performance on Milestone 2!)
What is groupthink?
200
One of the 5C types of audiences; knowledge of audience type is crucial. Because this type of audience was present for our speeches, our primary focuses were often on achieving and maintaining attention.
What is a captive audience?
300
A system for judging moral correctness by using agreed upon standards of right and wrong; these considerations must be used to make effective persuasive appeals to an audience. We found that fairness and responsibility were particularly powerful appeals to promote an increase in college readiness among high school students.
What is ethics?
300
We struggled to optimize our productivity and cohesiveness that are crucial to group success; productivity, the actual work accomplished, and cohesiveness, the sense of belonging to the group, are the goals of these two dimensions of group success.
What are the task and relationship dimensions?
300
We found that speech topics must be appropriate in these three dimensions. Specifically, a topic must be understandable for the intended audience, appropriate for the context, and last only for the allotted period.
What are audience, situation, and time?
400
These are five possible future applications for the framing process we were introduced to this semester; when framing the issue of the fairness of college admissions, we had to look for the concerns of multiple parties, analyze possible solutions, and use persuasive appeals to convince the audience of our position.
What are: mass media, advertising, politics, the workplace, and social movements?
400
After learning this in SCOM, our group felt an enhanced commitment to engaging in civic engagement. It showed us the complexity of public issues and how a variety of individuals can come together to make an impact.
What is knowledge of the breadth and depth of public issues?
400
Type of organizational pattern used in our informative presentation; we've found that an appropriate organizational pattern is critical to competent outlining, as it ensures logic and consistency.
What is a problem-cause-solution organizational pattern?
500
Public issues can be addressed in these ways; often, they incorporate what diverse concerned parties consider valuable in their implementation of their solution to the issue.
What is a variety of approaches with many different actions?
500
SCOM increased our sense of this, allowing us to feel more confident while participating in civic engagement; it is defined as the ability to convey information both effectively and appropriately in a given context.
What is communication competence?
500
These are four potential uses for the public speaking skills that we have learned in SCOM 123, which demonstrate the value that possession of these skills can have in everyday life.
What are: class presentations, interviews, job requirements, and helping others?