Week 5 - Effective Delivery and Oral Citations

Multiple Select

Effective delivery is the controlled use of voice and body to express the qualities of ______.  (More than 2 options are possible)

• naturalness

• enthusiasm

• confidence

• directness

Multiple Choice

What quality is the below text about?

Audience members expect speakers to be without artifice, to be genuine. Conveying these qualities, however, requires practice. Perhaps ironically, it is only by thoroughly rehearsing the message that you gain the confidence to deliver it in a natural manner.

• naturalness

• enthusiasm

• confidence

• directness

Multiple Choice

What quality is the below text about?

When you talk about something that excites you, you talk more rapidly, use more gestures, look at your listeners more frequently, use more pronounced facial expressions, and probably stand closer to your listeners and perhaps even touch them more.

• naturalness

• enthusiasm

• confidence

• directness

Multiple Choice

What quality is the below text about?

Your focus is on the ideas that you want to convey, not on memorized words and sentences and not on yourself. Instead of thinking about how you look and sound, think about the idea you’re trying to convey and how well your listeners are grasping it. 

• naturalness

• enthusiasm

• confidence

• directness

Multiple Choice

What quality is the below text about?

Maintain eye contact; use a friendly tone of voice; animate your facial expressions, especially positive ones such as smiling and nodding; and position yourself so that you are physically close to the audience. 

• naturalness

• enthusiasm

• confidence

• directness

​What other vocal/nonverbal techniques do we need to use?

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is the correct formation of word sounds. ​

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is the clarity or forcefulness with which the sounds are made, regardless of whether they are pronounced correctly.  

A very common pattern of poor articulation is ​

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—slurring words together at a very low level of volume and pitch so that they are barely audible. Sometimes the problem is ​

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. Common examples include saying “wanna” instead of “want to” and “theez ’er” instead of “these are.”

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Pronunciation

Articulation

mumbling

lazy speech

​Pronunciation is the correct formation of word sounds. Articulation is the clarity or forcefulness with which the sounds are made, regardless of whether they are pronounced correctly. 

A very common pattern of poor articulation is mumbling—slurring words together at a very low level of volume and pitch so that they are barely audible. Sometimes the problem is lazy speech. Common examples include saying “wanna” instead of “want to” and “theez ’er” instead of “these are.”