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| public speaking apprehension |
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| a type of communication anxiety, is the level of fear you experience when anticipating or actually speaking to an audience |
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| seeing public speaking as a situation in which a speaker must impress an audience with knowledge and delivery, and seeing audience members as hypercritical judges |
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| communication orientation |
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| seeing a speech situation as an opportunity to talk with a number of people about a topic that is important to the speaker and to them |
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| a method to reduce apprehension by developing a mental picture of yourself giving a masterful speech |
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| systematic desensitization |
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| a method to reduce apprehension by gradually visualizing increasingly more frightening speaking events |
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| a method to systematically rebuild thoughts about public speaking by replacing anxiety arousing negative self-talk with anxiety reducing positive self-talk |
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| public speaking skills training |
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| the systematic teaching of the skills associated with preparing and delivering an effective public speech, with the intention of improving speaking competence and thereby reducing public speaking apprehension |
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| how a message is communicated orally and visually though the use of voice and body to be conversational and animated |
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| an informal style of presenting a speech so that our audience feels you are talking with them, not at them |
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| a naturalness that seems unrehearsed or memorized |
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| the highness or lowness of the sounds produced by the vibrations of your vocal cords |
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| the degree of loudness of the tone you make as you expel air through your vocal cords |
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| the speed at which you talk |
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| the tone, timbre, or sound of your voice |
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| using the tongue, palate, teeth, jaw movement, and lips to shape vocalized sounds that combine to produce a word |
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| the form and accent of various syllables of a word |
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| the articulation, inflection, tone, and speech habits typical of the native speakers of a language |
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| the contrasts in pitch, volume, rate, and quality that affect the meaning an audience gets from the sentences you speak |
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| a voice in which the pitch, volume, and rate remain constant, with no word, idea, or sentence differing significantly from any other |
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| moments of silence strategically used to enhance meaning |
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| movements of hands, arms, and fingers that illustrate and emphasize what is being said |
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| changing the position or location of the entire body |
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| movement with a specific purpose |
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| looking directly at the people to whom we are speaking |
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| when speaking to large audiences, creating a sense of looking listeners in the eye even though you actually cannot |
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| the position or bearing of the body |
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| graceful and controlled use of the body |
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| the way we look to others |
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| a speech that is delivered with only seconds or minutes of advance notice for preparation and is usually presented without referring to notes |
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| a speech that is prepared by creating a complete written manuscript and delivered by rate memory or by reading a written copy |
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| a speech that is researched and planned ahead of time, although the exact wording is not scripted and will vary from presentation to presentation |
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| practicing the presentation of your speech aloud |
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| word or phrase outlines of your speech |
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