PUBLIC SPEAKING REACTION PAPERRR

Com 100: Speech Communication

Professor Gina M. Costa

EXTRA CREDIT

Public Speaking Reaction Paper

For this assignment, you will follow the same requirements as the mandatory Reaction Paper, but you can analyze a live speaker OR video of someone speaking. I realize it’s difficult to find live speaking events, so for extra credit you can use a video or even a TedX talk. Just don’t use a video from 10 years ago…try to find something more recent.

Follow the same format as the mandatory paper . This paper is worth 10 extra credit points and can be submitted until the last day of the semester.

Things to include in your paper:

· Speaker’s name, date and place of event

· What was the speaker’s primary message?

· How did he/she relay that message?

· How did the speaker prove his/her credibility?

· What techniques did the speaker use? (examples, stats, quotes, humor, etc…)

· Was the information organized and easy to follow?

· Did you know what the main points of the speech were?

· Did the speaker have a good delivery style?

· Discuss the speaker’s verbal delivery (volume, rate, pitch, etc..)

· Discuss nonverbal characteristics (movement, gesture, eye contact, etc…)

· How did the speaker relate the info to the audience?

· What did the speaker do well?

· How could the speaker have done better?

Feel free to add any comments or other communication ideas that we have discussed in class. This paper should be1-2 FULL pages.