Lackawanna COM125 2022 February Module 6 Discussion (dq1+dq2) Latest

COM125 Effective Speaking

Module 6 Discussion

DQ1 Informative Strategies

Explain to us something about your major that isn’t common knowledge.  If you don't yet HAVE a major, just pick a line of work you are interested in, or have done before. As your text says, you’re going to effectively create a mental picture in your audience’s mind that will aid your listeners’ understanding.  Use the informative strategies from Chapter 21 in your text to walk us through the explanation.  Make sure you tell us which informative strategies you're using, by "bolding" each one. Here’s a list:

Avoid information overload

Organizing framework

Simple to complex

Familiar to unfamiliar

Organizers:

                Signposts

                Enumeration

                Acronyms

                Slogans, catchwords, memorable phrases

Emphasis cues

Examples

Analogies

Multiple channels

Repetition

Here's an example I got from a PTA (Physical Therapist Assistant) major, and one thing that I don't think is common knowledge is that PT's can actually treat vertigo.

She explained that BPPV is considered a common form of vertigo and that they get a patient to treat with it every now and then. BPPV is the acronym for Benign Paroxysmal Position Vertigo. She used the example of when you feel dizzy, like the world around you is spinning uncontrollably. She also said you can sometimes get sick from it. She then used an analogy of a snow globe, and how when you shake it up everything inside spins. She compared the snow globe to how a person suffering from vertigo might feel when their symptoms are at their peak.

She used simple to complex to explain that the inner ear is what keeps your balance, and that there is a sort of "goo" in there that contains crystals that help keep your balance.  Sometimes they become dislodged (by head movements or sitting in one position for a long time), causing imbalance.  She used familiar to unfamiliar to explain how putting the patient in certain positions can restore the crystals to where they belong. And I guess you could say multiple channels would be showing us a YouTube video on how BPPV works, after explaining it to us.

DQ2 Credibility (Ethos)

Name a public figure who who you believe is dynamic, but whose image suffers due to lack of competence, goodwill, and integrity. Give supporting examples, in other words, action this person has taken to make you believe he/she lacks goodwill, integrity or competence.

Then name a public figure who you believe is competent, or has great integrity, but whose image suffers due to lack of dynamism.  Again, you'll need to give examples.

 My answer to these questions:  Donald Trump, who is extremely dynamic, and energetic, and says whatever comes into his head.  His integrity is lacking, he has proved this many times,  by mocking a disabled reporter, and further back when he said that  his daughter Ivanka is so hot, if she wasn't his daughter he'd be dating her.

 My "competent" example is Ralph Nader.  You may not know who he is, he used to run for President all the time as an independent and was very critical of both political parties.  He never caught on, despite the fact that everything he said was true.  He just didn't have the dynamism, and charisma, to attract the American people.  He's credited with handing the 2000 election to George W. Bush, since it is presumed many votes that would have gone to Democrat Al Gore went to Nader instead.

So:  A public figure who HAS dynamism but not competence, integrity, or goodwill

Then: A public figure who HAS competence, integrity, or goodwill, but lacks dynamism.