1. Critical thinking skills are important to have as a speaker because they allow people to decide what to believe or what to do. Public speaking exercises eight critical thinking skills. Critical thinking allows someone to focus which will help them define a problem, set goals, and select pieces of information. Another skill is information gathering that allows one to formulate questions and collect data. Remembering skills enable an individual to store information in his/her long-term memory and retrieve it. Organizing information allows someone to understand a topic and present it more effectively. Analyzing a topic will help to clarify existing information by examining parts and relationships, while generating lets one use prior knowledge to infer and elaborate new information and ideas. Integrating allows a person to summarize, combine, and restructure information. The last skill that comes from a process of critical thinking is evaluating, which establishes criteria and assesses the quality of ideas. As a critical thinker it is also important to be receptive to what others have to say by being open and unbiased. These listed skills of a critical thinker are beneficial in making a student a much stronger speaker. 3. Critiquing a speech involves criticism which offers feedback for the purpose of improving a speaker’s speech. When critiquing an individual, it is good to start with a positive statement because public speaking is a personal experience, and establishing a healthy environment is important for constructive criticism. After that, one wants to target a few key areas for improvement because an individual doesn’t want to overwhelm the person, but just allow him/her to set manageable goals for the next spe... ... middle of paper ... ...possible for sources to be expert and also biased because an expert does not mean that they are not human. Everyone has an opinion, and some experts who have been working on a particular project or are being sponsored by a company will try to bend the facts or just use the facts that support their findings. Biased experts will not offer the data that conflict with the point they are trying to prove. Examples of this would be a Gallup study that was sponsored by Motorola. The study found that people who use cellular phones are more successful in business than those who don’t. Another example shows that a Gallup poll sponsored by the zinc industry revealed that 62 percent of Americans want to keep the penny. Now an individual can see the difference between an expert source and an unbiased source and even though someone is an expert the source can also be biased.
...le to be Bias as there is no variety from where and who the opinions come from, they are one sided views which no one has attempted to prove or disprove in this particular article.
For this purpose, this skill is helpful in my Paralegal field. Critically thinking as I use the skill in a court case using inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning is important. Using Logical fallacies to catch faulty arguments in writing and documents. Being a critically-Literate Citizenship using my skills in literacy. Critical literacy inspires me to understand and questions the audience, the tones of the text , values, and beliefs of written texts, visual , and spoken words. When I first started this class I never heard this term used so it was hard for me to understand but now after sixteen weeks of class. I understand more than one for I first started this
Critical thinking provides an opportunity to explore the positive and negative sides of an argument for and against an idea, theory or notion. Reasoning and perception is attuned to personal impression and provides outcome to belief and opinion.
There are several critical thinking skills that are needed for the leader committed to social justice to effectively communicate at all levels of practice including the ability to observe, analyze and interpret information and situations, provide clear explanations, decision making skills, problem solving skills, open and honest communication, evaluation skills, and inference. A leader must be knowledgeable and understand all aspects of the issue that exists to be able to establish goals to address the issue. The knowledge and understanding comes from the ability to make good observations while also being
In life, we rarely have the chance for a do-over, but I feel like returning to college is mine. Throughout high school, my grades were never above average and until about a couple of years ago I considered myself to be unintelligent. What I failed to see was my level of commitment. Once I began applying myself, the grades earned reflected that. This concept coincides to my public speaking ability. Many students, including myself, walk into a speech class thinking that it will be the Easy A of the semester and quite frankly I devoted a good amount of time and hard work to earn my A’s and B’s for this course. Overall, my public speaking growth in terms of listenability were influenced by the following: the strategy keys in correctly engaging the audience; the structure keys appropriate for a speech versus a paper; the support keys by continually engaging the audience; and finally the style keys by practicing the use of body language and reducing the verbal junk.
Lucas devotes a section of chapter one to talking about the history of public speaking stating that every culture has some word equivalent of the word speaker. Lucas then goes on to tell the similarities and differences between public speaking and conversation. Stephan Lucas then goes on to explains in this chapter that nervousness and stage fright are among the leading causes for the fear of public speaking. But he then assures us that nervousness is normal, and a welcomed part of speech giving. Lucas proves his point by saying, “If you feel nervous about giving a speech, you are in very good company. Some of the greatest public speakers in history have suffered from stage fright, including Abraham Lincoln, Margaret Sanger, and Winston Churchill” (Lucas, 2012 pg. 9). Lucas says that you should not run from your nervousness, but instead try to turn it into a positive nervousness. Lucas then goes on to give six ways to turn the negative nervousness into positive nervousness. They are acquiring speaking experience, preparation, positive thinking, visualization, realizing you’re nervousness isn’t visible and not expecting perfection. Now that Lucas has touched on the history, fears, and possible rewards of public
Critical thinking is a significant and essential topic in recent education. The strategy of critical thinking skills helps identify areas in one's courses as the suitable place to highlight, expand and use some problems in exams that test students' critical thinking skills.
I have also learned about different types of audiences and speeches including persuasive, informative, entertaining and delivering special occasion speeches. It came to my attention that whenever I was making these presentations or speeches, I needed to do so with confidence, consistence and practice before the actual presentation and completely eliminate the element of panic. It was also clear that capturing the attention of the audience and engaging them in the whole process, it was necessary to have a very strong introduction and also try and use visuals to deliver the message. It was therefore vital to respect each person’s diversity and cultural values (Lucas, 2011).
My public speaking class has already enhanced my knowledge and my ability to give speeches greatly. I know that with time and experience in public speaking, I will become a more skilled and professional public speaker. I will be sharing my first thoughts about my public speaking class, my strengths and weaknesses as a speaker, the speech I am most proud of so far, the speech that was the most difficult so far, and areas I know I need to improve on in order to be a skilled public speaker. Although I have had previous engagements with public speaking in high and middle school, none can be compared to the nervousness I felt about speaking in college level classes.
In public speaking I learned many types of concepts, theories and terms of communication. In concepts of publicly speaking there’s, relaxation, practice, credibility, attention getters, attire, organization, volume, emotion, audience relation, and movement. In my first speech, “The any old bag speech” I quickly learned the do’s, don’ts and concepts of my speech performance.
Critical thinking a strong and powerful way to use the brain, it is used by millions everyday some without knowledge that they are even using it. Critical thinking according to Diane Halpern as " The use of those cognitive skills or strategies that increase the probability of a desirable outcome...thinking that is purposeful, reasoned and goal directed - the kind of thinking involved in solving problems, formulating inferences, calculating likelihoods, and making decisions when the thinker is using skills that are thoughtful and effective for the particular context and type of thinking task. Critical thinking is sometimes called directed thinking because it focuses on a desired outcome." Halpern (1996).
Some of these include noting whether the speaker could or could not successfully provide credible evidence for their claims, maintain eye contact with the audience, and adapt the speech and delivery appropriately for the audience. These are just very few of the many aspects that are meticulously taken into consideration during the process of grading an oral presentation. Since the concept of grading a speech has been explained, it is now appropriate to grade a
During my classes, I learned that to be a better narrator or speaker one must be able to capture the attention of his or her audience. Creativity is the only tool to do this and to be creative one must be a critical thinker. Critical thinking enables a public speaker come up with a creative style of presenting his or her speech.
The student outcomes for this course are to incorporate and learn different forms of material that will help the student deliver a structured speech. In order to deliver logical and organized speeches. As well as learning to speak with confidence and to understand how to control their own individual body movement when delivering a speech. A student also has to learn how to apply concepts such as language, organization, support, and delivery. In order to effetely deliver an informative, persuasive, entertaining, and commemorate speak. Lastly, a student has to learn how to analyze individual speaks and the understand perspectives from all members of the community. All these outcomes in the syllabus are meant to prepare us to become better public
Critical thinking regularly involves the capability to interpret information and make knowledgeable decisions based on such information. Additionally, problem solving is frequently theorised as the use of critical thinking skills towards the effective solution of a specific problem or towards a specific end goal. Critical thinking is the disciplined art of ensuring that you use the best thinking you are capable of in any set of circumstances. The general goal of thinking is to figure out some situation” (Critical Thinking, 2001, p.1), solve some problem, answer some questions, or resolve some issue. It also is a process in which a person pursuits reliable and pertinent information about the world. Critical thinking is often described as reasonable, ruminative, trustworthy, and a well-practiced form of thinking that assists people with deciding what they should believe in and what actions should be taken. A practiced critical thinker will ask good questions, collects pertinent data, categorizes common characteristics, logically reasons with the new data and then he or she will come to a trustworthy and dependable conclusion. Critical thinking makes use of many processes and procedures. Some processes include but is not limited to asking questions, making judgments, and identifying