1) View the student Katsaridaphobia. Evaluate the speech in light of the guidelines for informative speaking discussed in Chapter 15.

1) View the student Katsaridaphobia. Evaluate the speech in light of the guidelines for informative speaking discussed in Chapter 15.

2) View Amy Cuddy’s speech, Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are. Evaluate the speech in light of the guidelines for informative speaking discussed in Chapter 15.

Be sure you incorporate the informative speaking guidelines in your assessment of the speeches. Also, be sure you include a reference to Lucas with page numbers and respond to two classmates (250 words main post, 50-100 words replies to the students, ) I uploaded the book which you will refer to it chapter 15, and reference. and watch the two videos and do the replies. be respectful replying and infromal and do not plagarize or use chatgbt thx

First Student:After viewing and listening to both speeches, I do think they were great speeches however I did notice a few things. To begin,they were both in topical order which is something I personally prefer, I feel like it gives a good structure to the speech and does a great job of organizing someones thoughts. I really enjoyed the first speech rather than Amy’s though, I feel like she spoke so extremely fast I had a hard time keeping up with her almost in addition to starting her speech with “so, um.” It kind of felt just thrown together for me so listening to her speech just wasn’t for me. She also said “um” a good bit, just within the first minute of even speaking, make it hard for the listener to truly understand and keep up. I do feel like both speeches were a way of trying to inform and explain to the viewer their topic. In both, I felt like they were very informative and seem to at least have basic, minimum knowledge of what they were talking about. I know Amy mentioned she was a social psychologist and the student mentioned he used to have katsaridaphobia, which allows a personal connection to the topic they are informing us on.

Regarding the students speech, as Lucas explains, “One kind explains a process so that listeners will understand it better. Your goal is to have your audience know the steps of the process and how they relate to one another” (Lucas 272). Which what I feel fits best to describe the students motive. Although he was not explaining a process, his main goal was to inform his listeners about this condition, he even went to the ends of how to treat and handle it. He paced his words nicely and used words that were comprehendible and made sense to his audience, he did not overestimate that we knew anything, he even explained what Katsaridaphobia was, because he knew we probably didn’t not know what that was. He also personalized what he was talking about, he made a direct connection to himself and that he just recently was able to get over this fear. Altogether, I feel as if this speech was very well put together and I enjoyed listening to him.

Regarding Amy Cuddy’s speech, it was a very good topic, one I personally would be interested in listening to however, listening to her speech was just difficult for me. She said “um” multiple times through her speech and I also noticed she was say like two words and then repeat them again to then go on and finish her sentence. This really just messed the whole thing up for me, it just made it very complex and difficult to continue listening to. I did really like her audience though, she got them involved and used some interesting visual aids for them. When I listened to her she did sound very passionate about it, which is something important to me. I also really liked her personal examples, like when she was 19 and got into a car accident, it felt very personal and this is a topic that really resonates with her. I think the only issue was it felt very rushed and some of her word usage was hard for me. She did used very good description as Lucas mentions, “one way to avoid abstractions is through description…description is also used to communicate internal feelings” (Lucas 282). Which is exactly what Amy did and its like I could really understand her, because as a student who heavily relies on her grades and will take a low B or even a C to the heart, it really resonates with me, which is really nice and personal. Her description and personalization to her speech was superior, I absolutely loved it, I just think her starting out with saying “um” and repeating some of the words she was using was hard, but I did enjoy this speech.

In essence, I did really enjoy both speeches and although I resonate more with Amy’s and can understand exactly what she’s talking about, I do think the student speech was better and very well put together.

Second Student:After reviewing the two speeches, I have some perhaps controversial thoughts. Both speeches have some things in common – they are Concept Speeches, laid out in topical order. Their specific purposes are to inform their audiences about concepts. Both speeches have “treatment” or “solution-based” goals for their audiences – they want audiences to retain residual knowledge that a specific treatment or mentality can impact their lives in a positive way.

However, these speeches have some differences. Firstly, they have different demographics. While anyone can learn about Katsaridaphobia, not everyone suffers from this kind of phobia. This is not to say that those who don’t have katsaridaphobia won’t be interested or won’t derive value from it – it’s just that in comparison to body language, which is a more human-encompassing thing, it’s more niché and doesn’t require as many main points or as much time as the more broad topic of nonverbal communication.

I also believe there are differences in delivery, based on the change in demographic. In the first video, the speech is very much designed to show how typical speeches are performed – I believe for a communications-based educational purpose, evidenced by the captions in the bottom left of the screen which signify transitions and sections of the speech. This requires the speech to fit a certain time-frame and do things very “by-the-book” where each section is clear and follows the specific guidelines of the textbook almost to the tee.

The second speech is a TED talk performed in front of hundreds of academics and those who are interested in academia, who have been hearing academic speeches all day long. These are hard, nuanced concepts, and require more time to break down and synthesize. Hence, they require more extemporaneousness; more audience involvement; moments of comedic timing that relax the audience into absorbing the subject material after full days of absorbing subject material. It may feel chaotic and rambling – and there are definitely times where that is the case (I got lost around the emoticons section) – but her visual aids were interesting, her points were relevant to all people, and she got her audience involved by asking them to adjust their posture and to incorporate that into their daily lives to instigate a positive effect.

I found her to be more relatable simply because I too struggle with needing to feel smart when I sometimes feel like an imposter. But I also relate to her because she took the time to break down why she felt a certain way, what caused her to feel that way, and how she herself worked to get out of it and, as a result, understood the perspective of those who felt like imposters. This gave her so much credibility to me. Yes, it’s partially because she had time to break all that down, whereas the first speech had more rigorous timing. But I also think it’s important to establish credibility because it lets me forgive the hard guidelines.

Guidelines are just that – they’re lines to help guide. They’re not liferafts – we don’t have to cling to them if we don’t need to. They’re there for us to understand, absorb, and synthesize into our speeches so we know where to take them. But emotionality and personalization are important to me, as well, because they can make a speech last. I may not remember katsaridaphobia a few weeks from now, but I will remember that straightening my shoulders, opening up more, avoiding touching my neck and smiling more will affect my outlook on my life and potentially open up more opportunities for me down the road.