When reading sarcasm is can be really difficult to pic up on these tones. Because sarcasm often relies on the subtle manipulation of vocalic cues it is almost impossible sometimes given the context of the story to understand. Bu that makes it essential to pay attention. You have to not only to what is said but also to how it is said by fully grasping the situation of the novel.

For some reason I think I am overly sensitive to this one. Not in the way of like being upset when someone comes close to me but just totally aware of everyone's relative proximity and body tilt. When someone just a little to close or too far away I can literally feel it. Or when another person tilts their body toward another, I am always picking up on things like that.

When first entering HS I was pretty unsocial, this led to a much more limited social circle. It was difficult but with awareness and practice, I was able improve my nonverbal communication skills. Throughout the rest of HS I was able to expand my friend group and support network over time. Now I am better able to connect with others, understand their emotions, and respond empathetically, leading to stronger and more meaningful connections.

In romantic situations, people use nonverbal cues to express their interest and feelings. It's as simple as making eye contact to show you're attracted, smiling to convey happiness, using gentle touches to create a connection, adjusting your body language to stay engaged, and dressing well to make a good impression. These subtle actions help communicate emotions and build a romantic connection between individuals. But most the time it is done with intention. I know many teenage girls that spend time thinking about how to min max these cues.

Facial expressions can be very ambiguous unless you have been around a person long enough. That can convey curiosity, skepticism, or surprise, leaving the recipient uncertain about how the person really feels. Connecting back to the earlier chapter on decoding, in these situations active listening and accurately decoding the signal can help bridge the gap and bring clearer understanding between individuals.

Nonverbal communication encompasses all forms of communication other than spoken or written words, and it includes body language, facial expressions, gestures, and tone of voice. So even if you don't look bored, you also don't want to sound bored. Or even having boring hand motions is a detriment.

This can also be used to easily manipulate people. If you are conscientiously aware of making these tone adjustments, you can influence how people feel about what you are saying. It is not a visible amount of influence but if you do it long enough, there will be a visible effect. I have definitely tried to use this.

We do this for a lot of sports. When doing a complete run through of the game plan, we wear our uniforms, and we act like its game day. This not only ensures I am physically comfortable on Go-day but also helps me mentally prepare and feel more confident. It's a simple yet effective way to reduce potential distractions and boost self-assurance when facing an audience.

There was one time when I had to give an impromptu speech during a team meeting at work. The content and delivery were entirely spontaneous, and the situation felt like a sink-or-swim moment. I definitely felt the anxiety. But after that it was much easier, and I understood that its really not that big of deal.

Personally, I've often experienced anxiety when I had to speak in front of a diverse or unfamiliar audience. The uncertainty of how they might react or perceive my message added an extra layer of pressure. However, acknowledging this source of anxiety is the first step in addressing it. Then after I realized that those people are just humans too and have their own anxiety. Now it is much easier to speak in public.

From my experience the best addition to this outline is to have a specific point about how this directly connects back to the main point of the speech. It both holds the speech together and makes clear connections back to the main point. Additionally, it ensures that you as the speaker have a clear understanding of how the subpoint connects.

This concept is very present when giving instructions. Being vague is terrible and will often lead to avoidable complications or the work simply not being done. Similarly, being overly creative or flowery is useless when trying to provide specific instructions. If you need to accomplish a task and the instructor who knows what to do, will not stop adding in metaphors or trying to rhyme the steps, it will make the task unbearable and the correct way to perform that task would be lost.

Connecting it to the previous chapter, the main purpose of this section is to inform. It is not meant to entertain because there are not very many jokes in it. It is also meant to persuade because. The author uses phrases like to paraphrase "college level speeches use scholarly papers only" to influence the audience (New college students) to believe that in order to be at 'college level' they need to use specific sources.

This statement should be "to inform, to persuade, AND to entertain. No speech worth speaking should merely inform someone. A speech should be engaging and that comes with entertainment. Following with that, every sentence will have some information that will persuade or dissuade the audience to believe it based on the speaker ethos, logos, or pathos. You cannot give an adequate speech without doing all three.

This relates to something I hear on the radio the other day. The radio show segment was about puns and jokes essentially, and the host started by saying "Brittney Spears bought a puppy the other day.... the crazy thing was running all over the house.... oh and the puppy was cute too." This joke struck me as both untasteful and misinformed. Because the host was making fun of Brittney for being short and for her being apparently 'crazy.' Many people believe that she is being manipulated by her father and to make a joke about that was untasteful in my opinion. When making this joke the host did not consider the audience of people who only have compassion for Brittney and would not laugh at her situation.

Through social media people have become very bold in their mass communication. A lot of the time the communication is merely to put a group of people down, calling them "lesser" for their identity or their beliefs. Due to the impersonal nature of mass communication, act like these can be done with absolutely no repercussions. No local worker will be able to "get back at" the person who published a nation-wide article. The lack of "real" relationship in mass communication is defiantly one downside to its rise.

If you aren't making jokes to yourself, what are you doing bro. (I laughed to myself thinking about this). It makes life much more enjoyable to have fun conversations to yourself. Laughing is good for you and if you can make yourself laugh, then at least you don't need to find someone else to make you laugh. I fully believe everyone should be able to laugh with themselves.

The modern form of an "entertainment speech" would be a comedian preforming. You can almost imagine that being an audience member at the Globe theater during Shakespearian times would be the very same. As we know, it would contain the same amount of dirty joke, but at least at a comedy routine we can understand them. Altogether, oral comedy performances have been widely attended and have defiantly not lost their popularity with society.

I love how the engineering aspect in all of life mainly is to further the beauty and efficiency of communication. The way both the arts need the sciences to be able to reach their full potential and how the sciences would not have a purpose without art is fascinating. Architects need engineers to make their ideas possible. Engineers need a place to apply physics in a non-lab environment. It's amazing that even with a lot of competition between "STEM" and "liberal arts" they still very much need the other side to achieve anything great.

The idea of needing communication for the advancement of society is exactly like needing communication in relationships. Societies, in order to become high functioning cohesive units, developed and perfected ways to get ideas across to another party in an almost perfect fashion. All different types of interpersonal relationships follow the exact same path, needing clear ideas to diffuse. Although, occasionally for fun human do the very opposite and be purposely misleading with their communication.