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COMM104 - 04 10:40AM SPEECH PRESENTATION ORDER

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 8, 2011

• ANDRE YEARWOOD
• COREEN WILSON
• JUDE VALDEZ
• NICKISHA SPANN
• MICHAEL MCDONALD
• KEZIA LEGALL
• JANIE GUY
• LATOYA CHARLES
• KHADINE BRUTUS
• MALIKA BRIDGELAL
• GABRIELLA BERNAND
• ABICHAIL ASELIE

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2011

• SHAQUILLE YARD
• JENELLE WILLIAMS-HOSPEDALES
• TERSA TSOI-A-FATT
• ASHARA NARINE
• SHANNON LEWIS
• SHAUNA JOSEPH
• ROMELLE GREAVES
• QUINCY CAMPBELL
• SHAYNE BROWN
• SHERNELLE BONEY
• ORNELLA BELLAMY

IF WE DO RUN OVER WITH TIME OUR LAST DAY OF PRESENTATION WOULD BE NOVEMBER 15, 2011 

COMM104 - 07 1:20PM SPEECH PRESENTATION ORDER

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 8, 2011

• LARRY SOOKDEO
• DANIQUE SEAFORTH
• ROCHELLE PRIMUS
• CHERRIES LOPEZ
• ALAIN JOHNSON
• HERBIAN HOLLANCIED
• KISHMA FERDINAND
• MARIA CYRUS
• LATISHA COOMBS
• YAKINI BOWRIN
• JONELLE ABRAHAM

**SHOULD COME PREPARED IN CASE WE HAVE TIME: DEVIKA SINGH; JONATHAN RAMROOP

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2011

• DEVIKA SINGH (IF DID NOT PRESENT ON THE 8TH)
• JONATHAN RAMROOP (IF DID NOT PRESENT ON THE 8TH)
• MARIA NOEL
• VANESSA LOCARIO
• CHERYL JACKSON
• PETRINA GEORGE
• ELPHA DENNIS
• ISHMA-EL CRAWFORD
• NIGEL CAINES
• CHRISTOPHER BOBB

IF WE DO RUN OVER WITH TIME OUR LAST DAY OF PRESENTATION WOULD BE NOVEMBER 15, 2011

COMM104 - 08 6:40PM SPEECH PRESENTATION ORDER

MONDAY NOVEMBER 7, 2011

• KADEEM TOUSSAINT
• JENNEIL SORZANO
• RAMBARRAN CAROL
• JENELLE NEDD
• JEREMY MOSES
• MC DONALD LATISHA
• ESTHER LUCAS
• DAMALI EASTMAN
• KHADINE CHAI-HONG
• VICTOR BANFIELD
• SHURINE ALLSOP

**SHOULD COME PREPARED IN CASE WE HAVE TIME:  LISA ALLEN; EPHRAIM THOMPSON

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 9, 2011

• LISA ALLEN (IF DID NOT PRESENT ON THE 7TH)
•  EPHRAIM THOMPSON (IF DID NOT PRESENT ON THE 7TH)
• CADIOLA SINGH
• AMETHIA PRINCE 
• CARLENE NANAN
• MICHAEL MCLEOD
• RYAN MCCLATHCHIE
• KEELLA GIFT
• SHINELLE CROSS
• ADRIAN CABRALIS
• KEVIN ARNEAUD
• TANIKA ALLEN

IF WE DO RUN OVER WITH TIME OUR LAST DAY OF PRESENTATION WOULD BE NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Effective Listening Skills

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NOTES ON CHAPTER 14

Chapter 14

Adapting Verbally and Visually

Goal: To understand verbal and visual adaptation to audiences

Overview: This chapter discusses how to develop common ground, build audience interest, adapt to an audience’s level of understanding, build speaker credibility, and create and display visual aids that will be appropriate for the specific situation.

Chapter Outline

Action Step 4

Adapt your speech’s verbal and visual material to the needs of your specific audience

I.    Adapting to your audience verbally

A.   Relevance: adapting the information in the speech so that audience members view it as important to them

1.   Establish timeliness: show how information is useful now or in the near future

2.   Establish proximity: show a relationship to personal space

3.   Demonstrate personal impact

B.   Information comprehension

1.   Orient the audience: present an overview of information

2.   Define key terms

3.   Illustrate new concepts with vivid examples; helps understanding and memory

4.   Personalize information: present information within a frame of reference that is familiar to the audience

5.   Compare unknown ideas with familiar ones

6.   Use multiple methods for developing criteria

C.   Common ground: the background, knowledge, attitudes, experiences, and philosophies shared by audience members and the speaker

1.   Use personal pronouns: refer directly to the one speaking, spoken to, or spoken about (you, us, we, our)

2.   Ask rhetorical questions: phrase questions to stimulate a mental response rather than an actual spoken response from the audience

3.   Share common experiences: present personal experiences, examples, and illustrations that exhibit what you and the audience have in common

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NOTES ON CHAPTER 4

Chapter 4
Communicating through Nonverbal Behavior

Goal: To understand nonverbal communication, the types of nonverbal signals used, and how they are used to communicate along with verbal messages.

Overview: This chapter identifies the characteristics of nonverbal communication, describes the sources of nonverbal information and explains how gender, sex, and cultural context will affect how different nonverbal messages will be received. The chapter concludes by offering suggestions to improve both the construction and the interpretation of nonverbal messages.

Chapter Outline

I.    Nonverbal communication behaviors: bodily actions and vocal qualities that typically accompany a verbal message. They are usually interpreted as intentional and have agreed upon meanings within a given speech culture or community.

II.   Characteristics of nonverbal communication

A.      Nonverbal communication is continuous

B.      Nonverbal communication is multi-channeled

C.      Nonverbal communication can be intentional or unintentional

D.      Nonverbal communication meaning can be ambiguous

E.      Nonverbal communication is the primary conveyor of our emotions

III. Sources of nonverbal communication

A.      Kinesics: the interpretation of body motions used in communication

1.   Gestures: movements of our hands, arms, and fingers that we use to describe or to emphasize

a.      Illustrators: gestures that augment a verbal message

b.      Emblems: gestures that substitute for words

c.       Adaptors: gestures that respond to a physical need

2.   Eye contact, or gaze: how and how much we look at people with whom we are communicating

3.   Facial expression: the arrangement of facial muscles to communicate emotional states or reactions to messages

4.   Emoticons: typed symbols that convey emotional aspects of an online message.

5.   Posture: the position and movement of the body; body orientation: posture in relation to another person

6.   Haptics: the interpretation of touch

a.   Reaction to touch is affected by individual preference, family background, and culture.

b.   Reaction to touch differs within context (public versus private)

B.   Vocalics: the interpretation of the message based on the paralinguistic features; paralanguage: the voiced but not verbal part of a spoken message.

1.   Pitch: the highness or lowness of vocal tone

2.      Volume: the loudness of softness of tone

3.      Rate: the speed at which a person speaks

4.      Quality: the sound of a person’s voice

5.      Intonation: the variety, melody, or inflection in one’s voice

6.      Vocalized pauses: extraneous sounds or words that interrupt fluent speech

C.   Proxemics: the interpretation of a person’s use of space

1.      Personal space: the distance you try to maintain when you interact with other people

2.      Physical space: the part of the physical environment over which you exert control

3.      Artifacts: objects and possessions we use to decorate the physical space we control

IV.  Self-presentation cues

A.      Physical appearance

1.   Endomorph: round and heavy body type

2.   Mesomorph: muscular and athletic body type

3.   Ectomorph: tall and thin body type

B.      Clothing and personal grooming: physical appearance sends a message and one should adapt their style of clothing and personal grooming techniques to the setting

C.      Use of time; chronemics: the way others interpret your use of time

1.   Monochronic time orientation: a time orientation that emphasizes doing one thing at a time, adheres to schedules and rigid appointment times, and schedules interpersonal relationships

2.   Polychronic time orientation: a time orientation that emphasizes doing multiple things at once, views schedules as flexible, and subordinates scheduled activities to interpersonal relationships

V.   Cultural and gender variations in nonverbal communication: many behaviors such as touch and time are culturally determined

A.   Kinesics

1.   Eye contact is not universally appropriate and differs in cultures and subcultures

2.   Facial expressions and gestures

a.   Many similarities in facial expressions across cultures

b.   Gestures differ across cultures

3.   Displays of emotion differ based on culture and gender; gesture style is often used to label masculinity or femininity

B.   Haptics, or touch, is closely linked to culture. Some cultures encourage contact and touch, others do not. The meaning of touch also differs by gender.

C.   Paralanguage

1.      Volume varies greatly by culture

2.      United States stereotypes masculine voices as low-pitched and loud, and feminine voices as high-pitched and expressive

D.   Proxemics and territory refer to the difference between individualistic and collectivistic concepts of personal space

E.   Artifacts and physical appearance: culture and gender influence clothing choices

F.   Chronemics: The dominant U.S. culture has a monochromic time orientation, while many Latin American and Arab cultures have polychronic orientation.

VI.  Guidelines for improving nonverbal communication

A.      Interpreting nonverbal messages

1.      Don’t automatically assume a particular behavior means something specific

2.      Consider cultural, gender, and individual influences on behavior when interpreting nonverbal cues

3.      Nonverbal messages should be interpreted in context

4.      Use perception checking

B.      Sending nonverbal messages

1.      Be conscious of your own nonverbal behavior

2.      Be purposeful in your use of nonverbal communication

3.      Don’t let your nonverbal cues distract from your message

4.      Make sure your nonverbal cues match your verbal communication

5.      Adapt nonverbal behavior to the situation

NO CLASS: OCTOBER 20, 2011

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JOURNAL ENTRIES TOPICS

COMM104: COMMUNICATION SKILLS

JOURNAL ENTRIES

DUE: NO LATER THANOCTOBER 17, 2011

ENTRY 1

As your first blog post, you are required to introduce yourself.  Please state the following: Your name, your major, Tell us a little about yourself, Rate yourself on a scale of 1-10 on how effective you are as a communicator, 1 being ineffective and 10 being effective, and lastly, brain storm ways you can improve on your areas of weakness as a communicator.

ENTRY 2

Your personal response to the event that took place on 9/11.  Did it have any impact on your life?  Yes, No? State the reasons for your answer! Did the even change any of your personal point of views? Do you think differently after this event?

ENTRY 3

What is your perception of you?  In about 1 paragraph state how you perceive you!

ENTRY 4

Select one local Trinidad and Tobago newspaper.  Choose one article and comment about it.  What is your perception of the article?  What perception was formed after reading the article?

ENTRY 5

How does your culture impact the way you communicate?  How does it influence your verbal and nonverbal behaviors?

ENTRY 6

What did you learn from the in-class presentations on culture? 

ENTRY 7

What did you learn from the culture you presented in class?  Was that culture strange to you?  If you did learn something new, how does the new knowledge influence the way you communicate now.

ENTRY 8

Choose one article from your local newspaper and comment about it.  What is your perception of the article?  What perception was formed after reading the article?

ENTRY 9

Are you an effective verbal communicator?  Is there clarity in your speech?  Do you demonstrate linguistic sensitivity?

ENTRY 10

Do you use slang in your everyday conversations?  Why?  Do you think you use slang appropriately? State the reasons for your answer!

ESSAY TOPICS

YOU ARE TO CHOOSE ONE ESSAY TOPIC AND WRITE A 2 PAGE ESSAY.  INSTRUCTION FOR THE ESSAY IS ON YOUR COURSE OUTLINE.  ALL ESSAYS ARE DUE NO LATER THAN OCTOBER 18, 2011.  YOU CAN SUBMIT YOUR ESSAY SOFT COPY VIA EMAIL COMMSKILLS104@GMAIL.COM OR HARD COPY AT CLASS TIME.

TOPICS

• COMMUNICATION IS CONTINUOUS
• COMMUNICATION MESSAGES VARY IN CONSCIOUS THOUGHT
• COMMUNICATION IS RELATIONAL
• COMMUNICATION HAS ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS
• COMMUNICATION IS LEARNED
• WHAT IS SELF MONITORING?
• ISSUES OF STEREOTYPING IN PERCEPTION
• USES OF LANGUAGE
• CULTURE SHOCK
• CULTURAL IDENTITY
• UNCERTAINTY AVOIDANCE
• POWER DISTANCE
• ETHNOCENTRISM AND YOU
• CONCRETE WORDS VS PRECISE WORDS
• VERBAL VIVIDNESS
• WHEN SHOULD YOU USE JARGON?
• LINGUISTIC SENSITIVITY