**What is the most common barrier of effective listening for you? How does it affect you?
In Chapter nine I learned a lot about the structure and parts of a speech. Organization is very important when writing a speech. If a speech is not organized it is hard to give and hard for the audience to follow. I believe that when writing a speech you must have a clear purpose and specific main points. An audience needs to know exactly what they are listening for in your speech. In my opinion, writing the introduction is the easy part if you know your topic and main points. The hard part is supporting the main points and tying them to your main topic when writing the body of your speech. An audience needs supporting evidence to accept what a speaker is saying. If the evidence is not there, then the audience will have trouble finding the speaker credible and will lose interest. It never really occurred to me before that ending with a memorable thought in your conclusion will make an audience remember your speech or something about your speech. I'm going to try to give more attention to the conclusion in my speeches as it is just as important as an other part of the speech.
**What part of a speech do you feel is the most difficult? Why?
Chapter 6 also made me realize how I was a bad listener as well! Its weird cause I always think of myself as a good listener, ya know? But than I read this and decided wow, I could work on that for sure. Its so easy to zone out and look at the speakers physical appearance like what their wearing or their hair sometimes. We just have to learn to try to understand what the real message they are trying to get across is. I agree with you in not being interested in topics,I think we just have to be positive and try to find something we like about it!
ReplyDeleteI also agree that chapter showed how bad of a listener I am. There is so much to it I never thought there would be so much to it. The most difficult barrier I face is being able to find interest in the topic. I'm a little out-there when it comes to hobbies and things I like which I find very few people share. Not being interested in what others say bores me when listening to a speech about it which makes it easier for me to fall to distractions. There's definitely work to be done. I'm sure though that we all will be able to be good listeners some day.
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