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[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

201--Speech 2nd Period

"Ok, gang. I'm CJ. This term you will be learning the art of rhetoric as well as effective tools for public speaking. There's nothing like doing to get you into this, so prepare to take notes."

Pacing back and forth, she lectures for a few minutes.

"The essence of rhetoric, according to Aristotle, is finding and utilizing, in a given situation, the available means of persuasion. To do this, there are tools. Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. Get used to these words, you'll be hearing them a lot. Ethos pertains to the character of the speaker. Are you knowledgable? Trustworthy? A stuttering, stammering imbecile? Then there you go. Pathos is an appeal to the emotions of the audience. Reading your audience is key...in what ways can you use their emotions to your advantage? Logos is the logical appeal...facts, figures, common knowledge."

She sips her coffee and waits for them to catch up.

"These three are the backbone of what we will be doing in class. Now, to see where you're at...write me a speech. 3 to 5 minutes. Introducing yourself. Oughta be more interestinmg than the usual 'stand up and tell me your name' thing. If you need help, want to talk, are curious why D'Artangnen isn't included with the three...I'm here to teach you and I'm not psychic, so you have to ask. Ok, Go."
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301--InterComm 3rd period

"Alrighty then. This term's going to be a little different, I'm guessing, because you've been here for a few months already. I'm assuming you know each other, and if you don't, then shame on you.

How we communicate is key. In this class, the basis of our discussions will focus on the sender/message/receiver paradigm. This means that for every attempt to communicate, there are three phases that much be negotiated for said communication to happen. In order for accurate assimilation of a message, theseder and the reciever have to have the same modes of understanding.

Going easy on you, easing you in...please tell me one time when communication went wrong for you...the person who was receiving got the wrong message. Then we'll see if we can figure out what you should have done differently. Go.

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Re: 301 InterComm

[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

Maia signed in and thought about it for a moment. "Ok, I have one, on New Years, my friend came up to me and after I told her Happy News Years she kissed me and well, it wasn't like a friendly hi kind of kiss it was a hey lets go upstairs sort of kiss and well she actually said that but..anyway. So her boyfriend comes up and is all mad at me over the kiss and I told him that if he was giving her what she needed then she would not be coming to me for it. It, well it didn't go over very well needless to say.

Re: 301 InterComm

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"These friends...are they normally part of your speech community, Maia/ People you're comfortable speaking to like that?"

Re: 301 InterComm

[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

"Yes they are part of my normal community but I don't usually speak to anyone like that." She said sitting back in her chair.