Question

1) What are the personal, professional and public benefits of enhancing your public speaking skills?

2. What is the difference between the linear and transactional model of communication?

3. Define and give an original example of each of the elements of the communication process.

4. Which of the elements of the communication process do you think has the greatest impact on the way a message is interpreted. Explain.

5. What are the three types of speeches? For each of the three types of speeches, give two examples of an occasion or situation in which that type of speech might be given.

6. List the eleven speaking competencies. For each competency listed, describe the differences between the advanced speaker and the inexperienced speaker.

Answer 1

1. 1. Good Speaking skills play very crucial role in your personality development, building up self confidence and developed a quality of leadership. On the personal benefits of speaking skill we can include, firstly self confidence development, many times we knew the answers or might be in a conference or seminars we want to ask any question but we don’t asked because of lack of confidence level. Secondly on a personal note, we don’t hesitate to answer in public and this lead to somewhere help in our profession or career setup. If we talk about professional aspects then it is really important to have good speaking skills to impress the clients or to make your reputation in market. And lastly if we see on public basis then yes, if we have guts to speak in public, to raise our voice against any wrong thing and to motivate people by giving speeches in public will help others to think against the objective of speech and somewhere they implant your words and thoughts in their life. So ultimately good speaking skills is the basic key towards golden career.

2. In linear communication the sender only communicates with the receiver and this is unidirectional process, receiver doesn’t send anything back. , for example any news is broadcasting on television so in this case we are the receiver and we don’t send any thing on television so this is an unidirectional process. Whereas, in transactional multidirectional communication is used. Here receiver send the reply to the sender, for example, text messages that we all do on daily basis.

3. There is 7 elements of communication process and will discuss all with an example here.

1. Sender: sender is the person who intends to send any messages or convey any idea or any information to other.

For example: person ‘A’ sends messages in on any group to aware all about the severity of corona. Person ‘A’ is a sender here.

2. Idea: idea is basically the content of communication.

For example: the communication is all about opinion on a particular topic so the matter of subject is opinion here.

3. Encoding: Encoding is whatever the message is send, when it receives by the receiver it is intangible and theoretical so people use to add some emojis to express emotions, add pictures on the matter of subject, to communicate accordingly on those pictures is encoding.

4. Communication channel: This is basically the platform we are using for our communication to share ideas or any information. For example: any platform that can we used for communication.

5. Receiver: Receiver is the person for whom the sender sent the message.

6. Decoding: Decoding is the process in which the received message turns into readable form that should be understandable.

7. Feedback: This is the process which was done by the receiver side that the received message is understood in the same sense which was it meant to send.

4. In my opinion decoding is the element of communication skill that plays the main and important role in communication because if the message doesn’t decode then we don’t get anything regarding the subject and there is no use of sending any information by the sender.