#speech comm

This speech is addressed to all students who are on the edge of giving up on their studies.

Good afternoon! I think everyone will agree with me when I say that as of this moment, we are all tired and struggling to comply for all the requirements our professors have given us, may it be recitations, reports, exams, homeworks, etc. We spend countless sleepless nights and drink too much coffee in order for us to be awake just to finish everything on time, study our lessons and maintain our good grades. Some may even think of giving up on their dreams just because they think that they can no longer handle the stress, the pressure and hardships of being a student.

Note to Self: A Letter

Dear Self,

Speech communication has played an important part in education, leadership, and industry throughout the years. The power of words can be used to inform, convince, teach, and even entertain. Under the presence of the right speaker, the spoken word can be far more effective than the written word.

Because of speech communication, it has constantly helped improve your oral and written communication skills by helping yourself understand and appreciate the human communication process.

It taught you that communication is the backbone of our society. It enables us to form relationships, affect decisions, and encourage change. The desire to progress in life will be almost impossible without communication skills.

But why do you need it?

Speech communication gain an appreciation of the value of oral communication and listening for progress in your family, civic, and professional lives; become acquainted with behavioral science in persuasion; comprehend how language is used to affect social change; develop competent delivery skills consider evidence from analysis and popular discourse; measure the quality of claims; and develop rhetorical sensitivity in order to communicate with individuals and viewers more effectively.

Communication skills improve your ability to communicate professionally and calmly with professionals and coworkers. These skills are strengthened by public speaking, making you a more skilled candidate to progress and excel in your chosen area.

To know how to communicate well is for you to give importance to for future endeavors.

Learn to use it well.

Paradoxically yours,

D&Y

For You, From Everyone: A Letter

Dear You,

Looking at everything that happens around us, your voice is a change waiting to happen and one way for you to take a step forward is to have at least an understanding about Speech Communication. There are things that we tend to overlook when we communicate with others, something that you do unconsciously, and speech communication helps us know what this is and aids us into having better conversations with other people.

Reactions are given after communicating with another. However, can you really say that you make the most out of the reactions you get from other people? If only you know how to decipher reactions then arguments would be avoidable. Not completely, but the lesser the misunderstanding, the more topics you can bring into the conversation.

Learning about Speech Comm is underrated and you know that. Do you see any courses during your high school years that meticulously teaches you how to communicate and have a better understanding of other people based on how they communicate? No. If only we learned theories like "Coordinated Management of Meaning", we could've known that there are different ways of communicating other than just talking and talking and talking.

So here's to you, take some time to learn about speech communication. Learn how to communicate with others the way you haven't tried. Give some thoughts, take some, learn from what you exchange with other people. Knowledge is powerful and through communication, you can help in creating a better world.

Paradoxically yours,

D&Y

The World of Us: A Letter

To the world,

‘Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt’.

These were the exact words of Abraham Licoln. Although this may be valid in certain circumstances, we would disagree with him on the subject of societal change. Public speaking and discourse remain an integral part of many institutions, with benefits ranging from improved speech and communication abilities to increased self-esteem and a broad understanding of a subject or issue.

Discourse traditionally comes from social institutions such as media and politics (amongst many others), and it shapes and orders our lives, interactions with others, and culture by bringing structure and order to language and thought.

With political occurrences reminding us of the value of persuasion and powerful oratory, which can provoke emotional and logical responses in us, we must be prepared to consider and understand and empathize with others who’s right to free expression we frequently oppose. 

One example of discourse are debates. Debates are often seen in a professional setting, whether it is between students or your presidential candidates and it is almost always about something controversial. Debates are useful tools that grants us chances to be heard and to listen. However, we can also say that we often debate within ourselves, with our friends, and even with a stranger in the Facebook comments especially when media is being used all around the world. This exchange of information with oppositional stands often end up in arguments beyond the topics being discussed, unlike in formal debates, wherein they listen to each other, say their opposing stands, continually focusing on the topic at hand. This example shows how different people behave, depending on who they are talking to but this also shows how we don’t have perfect discipline to communicate properly with other people

The power that comes with our right to freedom of speech is great so why don’t we use it to make our world a better place? Many people have this kind of mindset which is a good thing but we all know that not everyone is familiar or not everyone cares if people want to change the world. Educating each other is essential, and not in a one-sided way. We are often told to speak up our opinions but we should also always consider the other side of the conversation. It always goes both ways and if we don’t know how to listen and how to communicate, we are no different from the Karens you see on the internet.

The world is constantly changing and it is inevitable. Through communication, we can walk through a path that is for the better and hopefully when the time comes, we can all agree on one thing.

Paradoxically yours,

D&Y

References:

PAN Communications. (2021). 3 Reasons Why Public Speaking is Important. PAN Communications. https://www.pancommunications.com/insights/3-reasons-why-public-speaking-is-important/#:~:text=It%20allows%20us%20to%20form,most%20dreaded%20forms%20of%20communication 

Good afternoon, sir! Good afternoon everyone!

Let me start this address by quoting a line from Taylor Swift’s song “Mean” which is an illustration of verbal bullying. “You, with your words like knives and swords and weapons that you use against me.” Bullies intentionally utter hurtful words to vulnerable persons to intimidate them and make them feel that they are not good enough. They usually insult, mock, and criticize their victims to gain power and control over them and act as if they are way better than any other persons in that particular area.

It is important to know that the people who are bullying you are actually hurting more deep inside and have their own unresolved issues in life. They act as if they are strong but they also have their own internal pain that forces them to degrade and humiliate others. But remember that words are powerful. Always be careful in every word you say because you cannot take it back once it’s done.

Even though the effects of physical bullying are more obvious, the impacts of verbal bullying to individuals are equally threatening. It can destroy one’s self image and self-esteem which can lead to depression, anxiety and even worse, suicide.

I’m a Speech Communications major! 

SPCM majors are usually required to have a minor, so my suggestion would be to minor in music.

Not sure how this happened so quickly but I will say that this Summer sure was better than most of the others I've had in my life!

Onward to 5 classes, 4 of which have some beautiful relation to speech communication or gender issues or both! That makes me very happy.