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    I would trade places with Zendaya Coleman. She is an actress, a singer, and a dancer. Zendaya and I both share a passion for dancing. She was a contestant on Dancing with the Stars, and I could only dream of actually doing that. Since Zendaya acts and sings, she does not have a problem speaking in front of a lot of people, but I struggle with speech anxiety. I would love to just walk out on a stage and not be scared of talking for even a second or freeze up and cry. I am trying to get better at speaking

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    The focus of Conversation Analysis (CA) is on analyzing the talk in-interactions that naturally occur, in order to understand how coconversationalists are able to take turns at talk, organize their conversational actions, or handle difficulties, such as speaking, hearing, or understanding the co-interactants' utterances (Wilkinson, & Kitzinger, 2011). The development of technology, such as voice recording and video, has provided elements to observe in detail hesitations, hitches, silences, overlaps

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    A Conversation Analysis

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    ENGLISH IN CONTEXT ANALYSIS OF SPEECH People spend a significant part of their lives listening and talking, that is the main reason why conversation is regarded to be the most generalised form of talk that concerns both speakers and listeners and it is contemplated to be the essential ingredient in co-operative undertaking (Wardhaugh, 1985). Conversation is informal talk involving two or more people and interviews are a particular type of conversation. Interviews are regarded as meetings at which

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    Nathaniel loves to play games and participate in activities. He enjoys new activities and helping his teachers. When Nathaniel feels that he did not show his group members respect, he will apologize for his actions and become fully engage in the group. In sessions, Nathaniel tends to use echolalia to process a question or new information. Initially, I thought Nathaniel was mocking myself and the other group members. However, as sessions continued, I discovered that Nathaniel uses echolalia to help

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    The lengthy legs, the vibrant american colors of his shorts, the strands of his tawny locks flying oh-so effortlessly are all a simple blur as he tears down the runway. Zach Bradford’s adrenaline kicks into gear as he takes his first stride. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve,” quoted Napoleon Hill, is all Zach has racing through his mind. Zachary Bradford is a strong-minded, self-disciplined athlete. It does not take much for him to grasp a concept and put it into action

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    Casual Discourse

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    Brad Trevenen Dr. Connerty ENGL 100 – Paper Project Pt. 1 3 March 2017 Analysis and Breakdown of Casual Discourse Transcription T1 Max: ↑ Mastering Physics ((looks at Mikey)) T2 Mikey: (1.1) A hundred percent T3 Max: Fu(h)ck you ((chuckles)) T4 Mikey: (.) That was like four times T5 Max: ↑ Four? Four? Fifteen. ↓ At least. (.) T6 Mikey: = I was half joking [Max: At least] whenever I say that. (2.4) I was. T7 Max: (.) ((exhale through closed teeth, a soft “chhh” sound)) You’d guess a random

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    usually happen to me when it is approaching last week of the semester, I tend to compare myself in the present to myself in the past. There are many aspect that I look to create subjects of comparison for a certain class such as writing skill, oral communication, and confident level. English 150 is one of important class that I can use to measure my academic level. A lot of important things I learned in this class for this semester, which I can use to improve myself especially in generating ideas, revising

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    practices in speech to help support these identities. Identities are important because it influence how a communication interact, and “shape how they communicate” Category approaches treat identities as stable aspects of persons that shape how they communicate (Tracy & Robles, 2013, p 20). As we have learned there are three main identities that a person tends to present during a communication situation. They are master identities, interactional identities and personal identities. They do not work

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    Sealant In Schools

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    elementary schools through in-terpersonal communication can protect the general population from developing dental car-ies by 60% (Oral Health 310). According to the article, Oral Health, the prevention of dental caries in young students is essential to protecting not only dental health but also their overall physical health as dental caries may affect their health negatively due to built up bacteria and malnutrition caused by decreased consumption from dental pain (Oral Health 312). School aged children

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    Oral tradition presupposes a body of largely unwritten prose, poetry and drama (Kur; 2007). Some of the oral tradition include myths, stories, legends, folk tales proverbs, riddles, etc. (Okoye, 2002: 93). Categories of poetry as oral tradition consist of elegies, religious and lyric pieces, and work of chants, topical and political songs, panegyrics, children's songs and rhymes. On the other hand satire, ritualism, masquerades, could be seen as drama aspect of oral tradition. Basic characteristics

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