Answer and Explanation:
1. In what ways is public speaking likely to make a difference in your life?
Public speaking is a way to trasport and communicate information, points of view, analysis, results of a reaserch, etc. Speking in public allows sharing information and being able to practice and reinforce knowledge. Speaking to others helps prepare oneself, and also it helps to think in the best way to express ones ideas.
2. How is public speaking similar to everyday conversation?
It is similar in the matter that to speak you have to adress to someone with words, you still have to think before you say something in the means of being clear an so that others can understand you.
3. How is public speaking different from everyday conversation?
Public speaking is different than everyday conversation: in the use of lenguage, according to the audience the lenguage is more formal, normaly you prepare on writting, so that you can be clear and go to the point. In a normal conversation you don´t prepare yourself as much, you are not so carefull on how you express an idea. Refering to a larger audience is also a difference.
4. Why is it normal—even desirable—to be nervous at the start of a speech?
It is normal to be nervous because the conditions of giving and speech requires an audience, the eyes and attention of a lot of people are put in to what you are about to say. People normally get nervous when they are under others sight, because they care of how people are going to think of them.
5. How can you control your nervousness and make it work for you in your speeches? One way to control vervousness is to practice prior giving the speech, to practice infront of the mirror or to someone close helps to feel more prepare and be confident. It also helps to think that everyone is nervous infront of and audience and that is part of the process.
6. What are the seven elements of the speech communication process?
The elemts of the speech are: speaker, message, channel, listener, feedback, interference, situation.
How do they interact to determine the success or failure of a speech?
The speaker is the one sharing the message, it depends on how the speaker adress the audience, so that the message can be clear and also the speaker´s knowledge and credibility gives power to the message. The channel, it means the words if they are clear enough or if the audience can listen. The listener or audience should get the message according to all of this, it would depend on all those factors to define the success of the speech. The feedback is the way the speaker knows people are intrested or not, aunderstood or not. Interference, time and place is also important to consider.
7. What is ethnocentrism? Ethnocentrism is the way a person thinks and so form the same position he or she talks, iy has to do with thinking a race or a society is more powerfull than other and doesn´t consider different points of views than his or her, and analysis everything according to this one reality.
Why do public speakers need to avoid ethnocentrism when addressing audiences with diverse cultural, racial, or ethnic backgrounds?
Public speakers should avoid ethnocentricism when addressing an audience, because the speaker would never know for sure what kind of cultural differences he or her would met, an so to be able to adress and send a message to others the speaker should not let ethnocentrism be an obstacule.