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Enhancing Your Listening Skills: The Key to Effective Public Speaking

Learn the difference between hearing and listening, types of listening, causes of poor listening, and strategies to become a better listener. Discover how to choose a topic, determine general and specific purposes, and craft a central idea for your speech.

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Enhancing Your Listening Skills: The Key to Effective Public Speaking

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  1. Intro to Public Speaking Chapters 3 and 4

  2. Listening Vs. Hearing • Listening Defined • Hearing Defined

  3. Types of Listening • Appreciative Listening • Empathic Listening • Comprehensive Listening • Critical Listening

  4. Causes of Poor Listening • Not Concentrating • Listening Too Hard • Jumping to Conclusions • Focusing on Delivery and Personal Appearance

  5. How to be a Better Listener • Take Listening Seriously • Be an Active Listener • Resist Distractions • Don’t be Diverted by Appearance and Delivery • Suspend Judgement

  6. How to be a Better Listener • Focus your Listening • Listen for Main Points • Listen for Evidence • Listen for Technique • Develop Not Taking Skills

  7. Choosing a Topic • Topics you know or want to know more about • Brainstorming for Topics • Personal Inventory • Clustering • Reference Search • Internet Search

  8. General and Specific Purposes • General Purpose Defined • Specific Purpose Defined • Tips for the Specific purpose

  9. Questions about the Specific Purpose • Does my purpose meet the assignment? • Can I accomplish My Purpose in the Time Allotted? • Is the Purpose Relevant to My Audience? • Is the Purpose too Trivial for My Audience? • Is the Purpose too Technical for My Audience?

  10. The Central Idea • Central Idea Defined • Central Idea Guidelines • Expressed in Full Sentences • Should not be in the form of a question • Should avoid figurative language • Should not be vague or overly general

  11. Introduction Speech Feedback

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