What I Was: A Look Back This is an analysis of myself in the past regarding the presentation skills issue. In our country, public speaking and presentation are two very important and yet overlooked skill. Like many others, I didn’t have a good presentation skill. I wasn’t a good speaker. Whenever I wanted to speak, my brain would stop functioning, mouth dried, I’d practice the whole speech beforehand and forget it when called on stage. I suffered from serious shyness, stage fright, nervousness etc
I signed up for Public Speaking because I always felt anxious to deliver a presentation. Before the class, I set out three goals I that wanted to accomplish by the end of the class. The first goal was to get comfortable with public speaking. I did not know much about how to make a convincing presentation, so delivering public speeches is a skill that I lacked and felt distressing about. My second goal was to overcome public speaking anxiety. As an introvert, I get an anxious feeling when surrounded
Civic Engagement Speech Analysis 1. For this Civic Engagement Speech Analysis, I will analyze my experience at the “Battling Speech Anxiety with the 3 Ps: Preparation, Practice, Performance.” The purpose of this speech is to demonstrate three practical ways to help people overcome their fear of public speaking. It was delivered to the audience by extemporaneous style. The workshop occurred in a classroom setting. There were snacks and drinks provided for everyone. The audience and the speakers were
With a standing ovation from the whole school and a look on my father’s face that seemed to say ‘I am proud of you’, I realized I had just taken a big step to overcome my public speaking demons. I suffered from stage fright anytime I stood in front of people to speak, and if these demons that cause this anxiety are the same ones in hell, then I am surely booking my flight to heaven as soon as possible. Since my childhood, I had always been the kid all parents wished they had; I was intelligent, smart
Your chest is tight and you feel like you’re on fire. Your chest is tight ant you’re burning up. The flash cards in your hands are crumpled from you squeezing them obsessively. You look up and see dozens of eyes staring at you, waiting expectantly. Taking a deep breath, you stumble through the speech. When it’s finally over, you practically run back to your seat, cheeks flaming bright red. You slump down, already dreading the next time you’ll have to deal with your upmost fear: public speaking. For
Introduction Public speaking anxiety is a problem for many people. Some say that it is the number one fear of Americans over death. There have been many studies done in the general field of public speaking anxiety. I am going to review five articles that touch on various issues surrounding public speaking anxiety. All five of these articles are from Communication journals and are at most five years old. Literature Review There have been many studies done on public speaking anxiety in the
When my first grade teacher asked me what I wanted to be in the future I told her, “I want to be a doctor.” My answer stayed exactly the same when my eleventh grade English teacher asked the question. Ever since I was little science has always captured my interest. I was fascinated by the way our body worked and how everything had an explanation behind it. In high school I was offered a variety of classes, and I soon fell in love with English and History as well. Although I was able to quickly grasp
For this speech, my goal was to share with the class an interesting and informative speech about something related to my culture; therefore, I choose to share with them my experience about the Arabic food. I demonstrated my credibility about the topic, and shared two of the most popular Arabic foods. From this experience, I have learned several things that I could benefit from for my future speeches, such as: what are my weaknesses that I need to work on and what are the things that I did well and
Final Reflection Paper Over the recent four months in Communication 1402 class, I have addressed three formal speechs and completed a number of chapters in the corresponding textbook “Communication Works”. This course of Communication aims to provide general information what public speaking is and how to address a public speaking. Recalling back the experience during the processes of completing the Speech to Imform, Speech to Persuade, and Group Presentation, I will draw a conclusion about this course
Communication Apprehension Theory With a Work Task The paper will aim to discuss how motivation and reward can be effective with a work task. These will be determined by someone’s position and where they stand with the task that needs to be accomplished. Rewards can increase someone’s motivation to complete a task and that can be beneficial for them. Examining rewards given for effectively completing a task can increase a person’s motivation to work their absolute hardest on a task in the workplace
At first I thought I would never make it to be a motivational speaker. However, this class has really altered the perception and understanding about me as a public speaker. It has enabled me discover the potential I had in this field. At the commencement of my classes in public speaking, I thought I would be a boring public speaker, less convincing, less persuasive and would freak out if asked to offer an impromptu speech. But it has come to my light that in fact this is the field where I would want
Like many, I can remember the time I stood in front of my classmates and recited a fourteen verse, Shakespeare poem. It was just hard to get over those uncontrollable pushes and pulls of nervousness when all eyes were on me. I could hear my shaky voice, the loud, off rhythm of my heartbeats, and the awkward silence. My eyes wandered around for some face to stare at before they found their comfortable position looking down at the floor. My hands squeezed one another tighter each time I paused to take
What causes the fear of public speaking? Glossophobia, the fear of public speaking, affects hundreds of young people everywhere, mostly students. The fear is often played of by teachers as the student’s way of trying to get out of assignments. Is this really the case? Are there other underlying issues besides students just not wishing to an assignment? “Clinically, patients with a history of childhood trauma often struggle with variable symptom complexes including both depression and anxiety” (Gillespie
called Glossophobia, which is a fear associated with social situations. Matthew Hinton: Great topic! COMMUNICATION APPREHENSION 2 ."Fear of social situations is a very natural fear as many people simply do not like getting in front of a group of people and speaking. This fear can turn into a phobia and can become so extreme that your career, relationships and even your life can be restricted. It is estimated that about 75 percent of the American population suffers with some form of Glossophobia. People
The phobia I possess is Glossophobia, this type of phobia is defined as a fear of public speaking. Interpreted as Classical Conditioning. My first encounter with glossophobia started in grade school where I participated in a Spelling Bee. I did not know that I would be standing before a crowd of my peers using a strange contraption called a microphone. I have always been shy, but this took my shyness to a whole new level. It caused me to freeze, misspell a word I knew how to spell. My second encounter
that I was not the only one. As I was pondering about what to write on my essay for my favorite school, I thought about my own childhood experience. Growing up, I was known as an outgoing kid. However, in fifth grade I learned that I had glossophobia or speech anxiety. This anxiety occurred when I was in front of the classroom or large group of people. I had no idea why, but the thought of speaking out loud would give me sweaty palms, a rapid heartbeat, and nausea. I have tried to avoid
too great of a story teller, nor can I recall my past too easy, but I do know that I have many fears. Many of them are similar to most everyone elses' fears. Some of them include the fear of heights, a fear of bees, and my greatest fear which is glossophobia, or speaking in public. I can manage each of them, however they make my anxiety heighten extensively. These three fears are rated pretty equal if I was to rate them from least fearful to most. I have always been scared of heights ever since I
Nearly everyone has had or has an unreasonable fear; it can be a fear of planes, spiders, or even water, but for some people the fear of these objects escalate and turn into phobias. A phobia is an anxiety disorder where people encounter a strong, constant, absurd fear of a certain item, action, or activity. Where as a fear is the feeling of being afraid of something dangerous. The difference between a phobia and a fear is; a fear is when someone is afraid when something is dangerous to their
a. Attention Getter: According to the article “Phobia Statistics” from fearof.net, “Nearly 15-20% of us experience specific phobias at least once in our life. In the U.S., nearly 8.7% of people (aged 18 and over) have at least one extreme specific fear and nearly 25 million Americans report having the fear of flying phobia. b. Introduce Topic: A phobia as defined by medicalnewstoday.com, “is an irrational fear, a kind of anxiety disorder in which the sufferer has a relentless dread of a situation
Ignorantia est Causa Timoris 1961, Stanley Milgram conducts an experiment on participating adult males utilizing the power of authority and electric shocks to examine two common underlying principles in humanity: blind obedience to authority and the fear of the repercussions of contravening. Similar to the focus of this study, the dreading of consequences and trusting higher authority are the basis of the plot in The Lord of the Flies, where William Golding depicts a large group of boys (aged twelve