...Ap English III 05/20/16 Aristotelian Argument #3 Jerry Seinfeld once defined people like me, neatly, as those who would be "better off in the casket than doing the eulogy" and I was touched that (according to One Poll's findings) more than half of us feel this way. Yes, public speaking is "really that scary" if you consider the forced attention of a crowd a punishment and not a prize. I can't have been the only one to shiver when Lauren Laverne a pro! muddled her last speech at the Mercury awards on Wednesday, announcing that the winner was James Blunt, not James Blake. What chance does the amateur have of making it through an address without humiliation? Everyone's fears are personal, particular and I suspect quietly cherished. When you're a kid a fear is almost a badge of honour; it helps you begin to define yourself. I can still list my earliest friends and what they were afraid of heights, spiders, Ursula from The Little Mermaid. At that age my stated fear was sharks, and public speaking was easy. I wanted the speaking parts in school plays and then suddenly puberty – it became unthinkable to stand up and say words in front of an audience. For a clear 15 years, from speaking at funerals and at classes , I managed to avoid it. Two years ago, at a wedding, I saw a man give as much of his brain as he feasibly could to feelings of joy, and love of, and the rest, I'm afraid,that I may be lost to terror about a speech. Viv Groskop, journalist, writer...
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...report on how to overcome the fear of Public Speaking. Purpose To help individual overcome the fear of Public Speaking by understanding their fear and taking the plunge to get over those fears. We purpose to research and write a background report on the issues involved on overcoming the fear of public speaking. Background of the Problem Public speaking is not a talent that anyone could have. In fact, it is a way of learning skills and could build up by individual’s own will. It could be lot easier if a person enrolls himself in speaking groups, where he will be able to build up his confidence of speaking and also spruce his skills. It could be challenging at first and might sound counter intuitive. But this is the first way to alleviate one’s confidence which plays a major role in terms of speaking. However, involvement in such groups also helps to be socially active, regardless of how intimidated one is and also able to meet new people and learn new things. For some speaking in front of strangers can be completely shadowy because they don’t know the audience and get fear of getting judged for giving an appealing presentation. Despite of the fact, they should be able to take the criticism positively instead of dwelling on criticism which will lead them to success. They should always be passionate about what they do and love the negative feedback. Once they learn how to accept the criticism, they will be able get over with any kinds of fear. These are the things that...
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...Kirubel Abera 1101 Composition I Erika Allen Jun 7th 2012 The day that I have wished to never see is finally here. For the past two weeks I have been tormented at the thought of having to step in front of my peers and give a speech. Speaking in front of a crowd is my fear. I can just imagine it standing there, jabbering. Thinking about it makes me sweat and afraid. When my teacher announced that we have to present our essays, I was consumed with worry and dread ever since that day. I feel a nervous excitement at the thought; I won’t have to deal with it after today. Seating at my desk, I fantasize about elaborate ways of escaping. Build a time machine and travel past the day of January 28th, second period or hypnotize Mrs. Smith my English teacher to forget me. Some of my anxiety is calmed as I fantasize, until I awake. Flung back into cold hard reality. I see David my class mate heading back to his seat. Oh how I envy him, I want to be him. Born and raised with his native tongue of English he has no problem speaking fluently, even in front of the class. Here I am the foreigner sitting in my first ever English class ready to explode. Mrs. Smith congratulates him on his paper. She then starts to look around. At this moment, I try to make myself look as small as mouse, avoid eye contact at all cost and imagine myself invisible. I’m busted. “Key RO Bell” Mrs. Stanly murders my beautiful name and I hate her for it. Not that I ever cared if people mispronounced my name but now...
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...Executive Summary Glossophobia is the fear of speaking in public settings. People with an anxiousness of public speaking likely either exhibit the phobia or similar symptoms related to the phobia. The purpose of this report is to find and understand ways to deal with public speaking anxieties as it is a common fear among the general population. This report focuses on defining glossophobia, or more commonly referred to as public speaking anxiety (PSA), and elaborating on strategies/tips for overcoming this phobia. Symptoms of public speaking anxiety can be feeling intense anxiety prior to, or at the thought of having to verbally communicate to a group of people. Another symptom would be feeling physical distress, nausea, or feelings of panic in some cases. Possessing good public speaking skills is a very important skill one can possess and having this skill to speak efficiently and effectively to an audience gives a person numerous advantages throughout their lifetime. This report is to help our audience understand the different ways of overcoming PSA in hopes of achieving a better communication process during presentations, work environments, or any situation that may require speaking in a public setting. This report focuses on six strategies to accomplish this: 1) preparation, which focuses on preparation of the speech and content before the actual speech; 2) know your audience, which helps for a better communication process of the message; 3) creating an outline, which...
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...it is the fear of public speaking. Public speaking is a common fear that plagues most, some cases more severe than others. However, you never really know how serious the issue is until it is time to get up and deliver that speech to the crowd. Bruna Martinuzzi’s article “11 Easy Ways to Finally Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking” attempts to eradicate the source of tension caused by the fear of addressing a crowd, while Nick Morgan’s, “Bad Rules Never Seem to Die: the Five Worst Rules of Public Speaking” dispels the typical remedies and advice for uneasiness. Through rhetorical strategies such as the use of common ground, credible support, and structure Martinuzzi approaches the topic with the intention to aid the fear-stricken while Morgan utilizes bias and tone to tell his audience why all other information on the subject is invalid. In the article ’11 Easy Ways to Finally Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking” the author says the best way in attempting to manage your fear is to first understand what is causing it. Martinuzzi goes deep into talking saying “understanding that our brain can not tell the difference between a real threat (a pack of wolves about to attack you) and an imagined threat (a group of your peers watching you present) is the first step to overcoming the fear. She uses Berkun as a as a reference to back up her explanation of the root of fear. This helps you know that she has references to helping you understand your fear of public speaking. Martinuzzi...
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...Art of public speaking This document covers hints and tips on public speaking and presentation skill, dealing with public speaking nerves and anxiety, public speaking skills and public speaking techniques, public speaking training. Fear of public speaking Why do we get public speaking anxiety? How to overcome fear of public speaking Building confidence in public speaking Public speaking training Hints and tips for effective public speaking Common fears of public speaking What happens when you have to speak in public? Did you know that public speaking tops the list of phobias for most people? Not spiders or heights public speaking - speech in public! Well, if you didn't know that, we bet your body does. It will do all kinds of unpleasant things to you when you have to stand up and face a sea of faces with the hope of getting your message across in a compelling and interesting way. Your hands may sweat and your mouth goes dry. Your knees may shake and a quaver affects your voice. Your heart may race and those well known butterflies invade your stomach. When all that happens most people don't think of getting their message across in a compelling and interesting way; they just think of getting off the 'stage' as quickly as possible! Have we frightened you sufficiently yet? It's normal. We don't really mean to frighten you, just remind you that your body reacts 'in extremis' when put under pressure, and for most people, public speaking is just about the worst pressure they can be put...
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...Art of public speaking This document covers hints and tips on public speaking and presentation skill, dealing with public speaking nerves and anxiety, public speaking skills and public speaking techniques, public speaking training. Fear of public speaking Why do we get public speaking anxiety? How to overcome fear of public speaking Building confidence in public speaking Public speaking training Hints and tips for effective public speaking Common fears of public speaking What happens when you have to speak in public? Did you know that public speaking tops the list of phobias for most people? Not spiders or heights public speaking - speech in public! Well, if you didn't know that, we bet your body does. It will do all kinds of unpleasant things to you when you have to stand up and face a sea of faces with the hope of getting your message across in a compelling and interesting way. Your hands may sweat and your mouth goes dry. Your knees may shake and a quaver affects your voice. Your heart may race and those well known butterflies invade your stomach. When all that happens most people don't think of getting their message across in a compelling and interesting way; they just think of getting off the 'stage' as quickly as possible! Have we frightened you sufficiently yet? It's normal. We don't really mean to frighten you, just remind you that your body reacts 'in extremis' when put under pressure, and for most people, public speaking is just about the worst pressure they can be put...
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...Public Speaking: Fear at its Finest The day when I spot a big, black, hairy spider and refrain from screaming will most likely never come. But, the day when I am one hundred percent confident to give a public speech is somewhere in the near future. How do I know this? Through my public speaking course this semester, I completed an anxiety survey. Although I was already aware that I have a slight fear of public communication, this self-examination revealed to me my speaking apprehension score that was labeled with a specific level of anxiety. Not only, though, was I faced with a given intensity of anxiety, I was learning things about myself that I never thought I would obtain such an insight to. Moderate: the level at which my public speaking apprehension score happened to fall. I recognized right away that I wasn’t necessarily in the higher or lower range. This assisted me in looking at the glass as half full, which happens to be an obligation if I plan to eliminate this category of anxiety from my life. As I sat and thought about my score, it hit me that I over emphasized my partial fear of publicly speaking in front of large groups of people. What I thought was going to be the end of the world was really just normal amounts of tension, stress, and anxiety that I was way too easily letting get to me. Seeing these results brought to my attention strengths that can assist my in kicking public speaking anxiety: I radiate optimism, am smart and energetic, and I have confidence...
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...is also commonly happened when a person is about to speak in public. However, this apprehensive feeling somehow cannot be ignored. Some people may find it easy to overcome this problem, but some others do not. Glossophobia, irrational or morbid fear of speaking or verbally communicating in public, can be the most suitable term for this problem. People with this severe fear usually do not know or realize what the reasons are. The only thing they know is that it is best to avoid speaking in public because they cannot do it. Actually, there are some reasons, which may not be realized by the sufferers, behind this irrational fear of public speaking. Glossophobia is a result of traumatic events. Speaking in public is not easy for some people, especially for those who experience bad things which may or may not be directly linked to public speaking or performing (Douglass, 2003). For example, a person who had experienced being ridiculed when he or she was giving a speech in a stage, and unfortunately made a huge error. This traumatic event may lead the person into vulnerable traumatic effects. Some traumatic events about speaking in public may raise a person’s anxiety to do the same thing. Sometimes, they do not even know how to produce a word to start the speech since it is like bringing them to the same situation which reminds about those particular events. Moreover, environment also contributes to the raise of this fear. It is best to start from the least scope, house. In this case...
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...A special skill that I have is presentations and public speaking. My presentations and public speaking skills can be utilized for business, sales, and training. Presentations skills and public speaking skills are very useful in many aspects of work and life. Effective presentations and public speaking skills are important in business, sales and selling, training, teaching, lecturing and generally entertaining an audience. Within my adult years I have acquired the skills and overcome the natural fears of presentations and public speaking. Developing the confidence and capability to give good presentations and public speaking, are extremely helpful competencies for self development. Presentations and public speaking skills are limited to certain special people. Not just anyone can give a good presentation, or perform public speaking to a professional and impressive standard. Like many other things in life, it is simply an acquired skill. The formats and purposes of presentations and public speaking can be very different. There is oral, multimedia, power point, short impromptu presentations. Educational training sessions, lectures, or simply giving a talk on a subject to a group requires presentation skills as well. Even speeches at weddings and eulogies at funerals are types of presentations that require skill. All of them are certainly a type of public speaking, and are extremely stressful to most people. Every successful presentation needs the essential technique and structure...
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...have suffered from this phobia. Glossophobia affects three out of every four individuals (Glossophobia about, 2012) What is Glossophobia? Glossophobia is a fear of public speaking, speech, anxiety, and stage fright. When even the thought of having to present in front of people already makes you feel anxious, sick to the stomach, nervous, start to sweat drops, dry mouth and even want to avoid presenting. Also when up presenting the “umms” come out and it is taking attention away from delivering the message in the presentation (Pro Quest.) If all this apply then it is a case of Glossophobia. This phobia does not come up from nowhere; this phobia had to do something with the person’s childhood or adolescents. A tragic event had to happen to the person for them to develop a fear of public speaking or presenting. For example either in the childhood the person got made fun of for mispronouncing a word while doing a speech in front of his or hers classmates. Or an adolescent performing a dance in front of a crowed and she slipped and fell or messed up some dance moves, everyone in the crowd laughed so now that is why she may have developed Glossophobia in her adulthood. Glossophobia affects both women and men but the women are the one that suffers the most with Glossophobia. Women Women get more anxious in public speaking, because they may have a low self-esteem, or they are not comfortable with their body image. Girls always worry of what people think, or say of them. With this...
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...Reports have indicated that public speaking anxiety is a prevalent social fear among most Americans (Jackson, Compton, Thornton, & Dimmock). Public speaking anxiety can also affect your work and social interactions with others. Numerous people experience nervousness when giving a public presentation. However, to certain people the fear of public speaking affects their ability to deliver an excellent presentation. I am generally a very outspoken person so most of my colleagues do not realize my fear of public speaking. Fortunately, there are various strategies that I can implement into my routine that can help alleviate some of my anxiety such as: focusing on friendly faces, familiarizing myself with the audience members before the presentation, and engaging in relaxation techniques (Cardon, 2013)....
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...LESSONS LEARNT - KING’S SPEECH On Jun 16, 2015, Prof. J Bhatnagar showed the movie ‘King’s Speech’ in the class as part of case study. The film is based on the true story of Prince Albert’s struggle to overcome his public speaking challenges. Not only does he have a stammer in his voice, but like most people, he fears public speaking. The movie is both an entertaining, and very real depiction of the struggles most people face regarding the challenges of public speaking – not because of the King’s stammer, but because of the fear he experiences, and the steps he takes to overcome. At the end of the movie, the class was given an assignment to identify the learnings in the said movie. Based on my understanding of the movie, the learnings and the concepts that featured in the movie are covered in succeeding paragraphs. 1. The importance of the "Informal" or ‘Humour Element’ in Learning. Lionel, the speech therapist, really insists on a first name basis for their teacher - student relationship. He insists on calling the king, "Bertie". Moreover, he stresses informality and humor in the teaching environment. This is so important a concept for learning and dynamic relationship between student and teacher. Research also suggests that using a student's name during instruction can alone, raise scores and help learning, as opposed to no name being used. 2. Credentials are over valued. There is a scene at the end of the movie where the king is angry/overcome upon learning that...
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...A person goes up to the podium to do a presentation. Even before he starts speaking his heart starts to beat and his mouth gets dry. He feels slightly nauseous. Once the person starts talking, the heart keeps beating rapidly and the person hears his voice tremble. The whole body starts shaking. He keeps on stammering and stuttering and prays to God for a quick end to his presentation.’ This is actually a common scenario we see everyday whenever people have to speak before others. By understanding the common scenario, I propose to inspect on glossophobia (fear of public speaking). “Glossophobia”, the fear of speaking in public is rated as only second to the fear of snakes and before the fear of dying. Symptoms include intense anxiety prior to or simply at the thought of having to verbally communicate with any group, avoidance of events which focus the group's attention on individuals in attendance, and may even include physical distress, nausea, or feelings of panic in such circumstances. You may also have shortness of breath, a shaky voice, rapid breathing, rapid heartbeat, dizziness, dry mouth, inability to think clearly, a feeling of loss of control, blushing, stuttering, trembling and sudden sweating. Many people report stress-induced speech disorders that are only present during public speech. In business, the cost is incalculable. Imagine missed business opportunities, being passed over for promotion, being reluctant to attend meetings or verbally report on your activities...
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...role in Atticus, Scout, Warren Buffett and the Jew’s Lives, positively or negatively, in the three books, the main aspect is racism. Racism plays an enormous role in society. Racism can affect where someone sits on the bus, and how you are treated. In the first paragraph, Atticus and Scout have a hard time because of liking black people. Warren Buffett will have to face his fear of public speaking, overcoming with the thought of racism. In the plague strikes, the Jews have to deal with getting blamed for causing the diseases just because they have a different religion. In To Kill a Mockingbird, racism was negative towards people in society. Mr. Ewell is an example of the racism in the book. He accused an innocent black man of raping his daughter. Due to the negativity in society, everyone had believed he had done it, simply because the color of his skin. Another example in the book is when they made fun of Atticus and Scout for liking black people. Mr. Dubose and Francis affected Atticus and Scout negatively because of how they like black people. Due to the racism in society, innocent black people live in fear of getting killed,beat up, or put in jail, just because the color of their skin, and or sothey are affected negatively. Racism was negative...
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