good bit of stress trying to juggle advanced placement classes, clubs, maintaining a social life, and literally everything else; it seems like I never get a break. According to the American Psychological Association, high school students rank a score of 5.8 on a ten point scale of stress during the school year, whereas adults rank as a 5.1. To put those scores in context, the healthy level for a high school student is a score of 3.9. Clearly teens are inundated with high levels of stress though the
Professor Dean Communications 151 9 October 17 Title: 3 Different Ways to Deal With Stress Exact Speech Purpose: To Inform INTRODUCTION I. Attention-getter: According to the American Institution of Stress, “44% of Americans feel more stressed than they did 5 years ago, work related stress caus 10% of strokes,stress is the basic cause of 60% all human illnesses and diseases.” II. Thesis: Dealing with stress should be taken more serious in order to prevent future health complications. III. Credibility
Planning for the Informative Speech with Analysis Speech Topic: To inform my audience of the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of Generalized anxiety disorder Rhetorical Purpose: To inform my audience about . . . Their own mental profile and how to recognize the symptoms so they can help themselves and others around them Audience Analysis: (Refer to chapter on Audience Analysis) (RU Core Goal: a) Summarize Audience demographics, prior exposure/knowledge, common ground/interest, disposition/attitude
For my second speech self-assessment, I will start with the technical aspects of my speech. Then I will continue with what I liked about my speech and what I thought I succeeded in. Finally, I will move on to the areas where I think I can improve on. My speech had a clear specific purpose, which I accomplished in the time given. It was well organized in the formal and keyword outline, as well as the speech that was given. There was clear distinction between my introduction, my body paragraphs,
Informative Speech-Steroids I. Introduction Attention Getter: (PowerPoint image) When we see someone extremely muscular, we wonder is the person using steroids? Background: Although people have been using steroids over 50 years, it wasn't until we started seeing headlines about athletes using steroids that it started receiving attention. Audience Relevance: Although I’m guessing most of you have an idea of what steroids are, I don’t think there are many classes or workshops offered that talk about
At the Fall District Meeting our FBLA members have been able to hear from incredible keynote speakers, attend informative workshops, network of other FBLA members as well as having the opportunity to run for district office. The keynote speaker at this year’s Fall District Meeting was Laurence Mackler, who owns an international solar power company. Mackler gave an inspiring speech about if you follow your passions and what makes you happy you will be destined for greatness. After the opening
My persuasive speech was to persuade people to adopt dogs and puppies from shelters and not to buy the animals from puppy mills or stores. I believe that my content was suitable to the audience because it not a broad topic. The topic also talked about animals and a lot of people enjoy dogs. I feel as if my content that I provided in my speech was appropriate because I used statistics to help back up my facts and it was all related to adopting rather than buying as a topic. I fell as if I had a lot
Analyzing one’s work is incredible important in order to explore one’s style of writing and to discover certain factors that influence it. When analyzing the work done throughout this semester, I came to the conclusion that important aspects of my writing include how my identity and style of writing changes based on my audience, the different ways I build my ethos and my use of logos, and the importance of kairos in order to persuade the reader. Throughout my writing, my identity and my style of
LEARNING COMPETENCIES ENGLISH III LISTENING 1. Shift from one listening strategy to another depending on the text and one¶s purpose for listening 1.1 Use attentive listening with informative texts and analytical and critical listening with argumentative texts 1.2 Single out reasons cited in argumentative texts and assess the worth of ideas presented based on a set of criteria 1.2.1 Determine whether arguments and conclusions are logical or illogical 1.2.2 Determine the stand of a speaker
This paper is a reflective analysis of the work I’ve completed this semester in my COMP 1500 class. This autoethnography served as a way to explore my style of writing as well as discover different factors that influence my writing. Within this paper the main assignments focused upon are Project 1, Project 2, Journal 4, and Journal 7. Project 1 and Project 2 were high stake assignments while Journal 4 was an analyzing activity and Journal 7 was a brainstorming activity. In this paper I analyzed important