Speaking Anxiety
True or False: Eye contact with the audience increases speaking anxiety.
False. Eye contact with the audience has been shown to reduce speaking anxiety for performers.
These are the three components of an introduction.
What are the attention getting device, thesis, and preview?
This is numerical data used to clarify or strengthen a speaker's point.
What is a statistic?
This type of outline is best for use during a speech, rather than for submission before a speech.
What is a speaking outline?
This is a statement that depicts a person, event, idea, or the like with clarity and vividness.
What is description?
This is a practice in which speakers create a mental image of themselves succeeding.
What is visualization?
This is the basic structure for a transition.
What is (point A) to (point B)?
This is the act of rephrasing or summarizing an author's ideas in one's on words.
What is paraphrasing?
This is the formal listing of the sources used in your speech.
What is your bibliography? Also accepting: works cited or references.
These are the 3 components of a verbal citation.
What are What, Who, and When?
These are 2 of the 5 steps Dr. M advised to improve speaking anxiety.
What are acquiring experience, preparing, thinking positively, visualization, and knowing your nervousness isn't visible?
These are the three components of a conclusion.
What are the summary of main points, restatement of the thesis, and the vivid ending.
These are the 3 reasons you may need to research for your speech.
What are: your knowledge is often not enough, your knowledge is often biased, and your knowledge is sometimes incorrect.
These are 2 types of visual aids OTHER THAN slideshows.
What are props, handouts, people, sense information, etc. (Accepting alternative answers).
This is what the acronym PREP stands for.
What is Point Reason Example Point?
Research has shown that a speaker's anxiety drops at this point in the speech.
What is after the introduction, or around 30-60 seconds into the speech?
These are 3 types of attention getters.
What are tell a story, refer to current or historical events, use a startling statistic, use a quotation, ask a question, use humor, refer to the occasion, refer to previous speeches, refer to personal interest, or use an analogy?
This type of testimony comes from ordinary people with firsthand experience or insight into a topic.
What is Peer Testimony?
These are 3 things to avoid doing with your visual aid.
What are letting your VA overshadow you, letting it distract from your message, or any of the other bad habits listed on our visual aids powerpoint?
This is a technique used to maintain fluency while organizing thoughts.
What are hesitation strategies?
These are 2 things you can do right before your speech to reduce anxiety.
What are tense/relax a muscle group and take deep breaths?
This is a basic formula for a clear thesis.
What is topic + position?
These are the 2 features of a good source.
What are credibility and comprehensiveness?
These are 2 benefits of using visual aids.
What are pathos, increased recall, or any of the other benefits listed on our visual aids powerpoint?
These are 2 of the 3 reasons you need to cite your sources in your speech.
What are: it establishes credibility, it helps the audience contextualize the information, and it gives credit where credit is due?