PURCOM SEMI FINALS

• Tony Robbins - To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others
• Communication - One of the basic activities
• Informative Communication - Presentation of messages that are objective, truthful, and unbiased
• Affective Communication - Express their positive and negative feelings
• Imaginative Communication - Express their appreciation and fictional messages
• Persuasive Communication - Influence the beliefs or actions for others
• Ritualistic Communication - Meet social expectation
• To inform – impart knowledge
• To evoke – rely on passion
• Evocative Communication - Use emotion to make a point
• To entertain – transmit a feeling of pleasure and goodwill to the audience
• To argue – persuade to assent to plausibility
• The speaker purpose - Appel to the intellect
• To persuade – to move the listeners to action
• Informative Speech - According to Osborn (1988) gives rather than asks or takes. Not to change their beliefs
• Persuasive Speech - Gronbeck (1994) the process of producing oral messages
• Read Speech - Read and delivered word for word
• Memorized Speech - Mastered and delivered entirely from memory
• Impromptu Speech - Ideas, thoughts and language at the moment of delivery
• Extemporaneous Speech - Topics are prepared
• Come in the form online journals which are called blogs. Short version of weblog
• Explanation Essay - An essay that answers the questions why
• Explanation Essay - To inform readers about why something happens
• Explanation Essay - Research may be used but is not required
• Blog - A personal journal or diary entry that is posted online
• Blog

  • To entertain
  • To instruct
  • To inform
  • To persuade
• Research based argumentative essay - An essay that presents a writer's position with support from research studies
• Research based argumentative essay - To persuade readers to accept the writers position
• Research based argumentative essay - Research must be used to support the writers claim or position
• Research - One element that distinguish the argumentative essay
• Research-based argumentative essay - End product of a research process
• THREE TYPES OF NOTES

  • Paraphrase - own words
  • Summaries - provided in the source
  • Direct Quotations - cite your your source
• TWO TYPES OF DEBATE

  • formal - formal settings such as in school
  • informal - do not follow strictly a structure
• Informal have two sides

  • Affirmative
  • Negative
• Skills needed in debate

  • Reading
  • Speaking
  • Writing
  • Listening
• Reading


  You should be a wider reader. Your knowledge of things is not restricted to a single perspective but to many
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  Speaking - The knowledge you have gained from reading can manifest in your wide vocabulary. Articulate your thoughts very well, pronounce clearly the words
• Writing


  Making a full man is achieved. You are able to express in writing your full understanding of yourself, the world you are in, your views about life, and your perspectives of people
• Listening


  You are able to gain knowledge and wisdom. It is only through listening that you are able to show respect to others
• The American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote about the beauty of literature: “You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong”. Literature connects people to each other through ideas and concepts that are known to them.