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Bibliography
Olson, Jeremiah, Yu Ouyang, John Poe, Austin
Trantham, and Richard Waterman. "The
Teleprompter
Presidency: Comparing Obama’s Campaign and Governing Rhetoric." Social
Science Quarterly 93.5 (2012): 1402-423. Blackwell Publishing, 16 Oct. 2012.
Web. 19 Nov. 2012.
This excerpt taken from
taken from Social Science Quarterly evaluates the difference in rhetoric used
when a candidate is campaigning for the presidential position and after they
take office. Another source is cited
that explains how campaigning has one goal, to win the election. It goes on to say that candidates promise
that certain goals will be met in their term but no proposals of how the goals
will be met are explained. The article
goes over multiple examples of different presidential candidates and past
presidents that I will be able to implement in my own paper. The article explains how presidential
rhetoric has changed over time and the change of word choice in presidential
speeches to appeal to a wider audience.
This article is very relevant to my topic of inquiry and is almost spot
on with where I want to go will my argument.
The King's Speech. Dir. Tom Hooper. By David
Seidler. Perf. Colin Firth, Helena Carter, and
Derek Jacobi.
Blockbuster. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Nov. 2012.
<http://www.blockbuster.com/browse/catalog/movieDetails/482194>.
The King’s Speech is
about how before King George VI became king of England; he was put through speech
therapy in order to be fully qualified to be king. This seems to conclude that being a great
speech giver isn’t by nature as in you are not born talented at giving
speeches. Prince Albert, played by Colin
Firth, suffered from a speech impediment at the age of 5 and evaded any public
speeches until he found help from Lionel Logue.
After getting help, King George VI gives a great speech heard across the
world. This movie will be helpful in my
paper because it shows the rhetoric used in speeches back in the early 1900s
and I can use that to compare to rhetoric used in present times.
Harris, Sandra, Robert Kemmerling, and Max North.
"Brief Virtual Reality Therapy for Public
Speaking Anxiety."
CyberPsychology & Behavior 5.6 (2002): 543-50. EBSCOhost. Web. 20 Nov.
2012.
This article is a
report on how Virtual Reality Therapy (VRT) helped university students
overcome their speech anxiety. The study was carried out with a group of 16
subjects, 8 were exposed to VRT and 8 were in a control group. The results showed that after five weeks of
therapy, the group exposed to the therapy was able to banish their fear of
public speaking. The article shows
multiple tables or charts that show the results of the study. The study used self-report inventories which
seems odd that the subjects reported on the effectiveness of VRT themselves but
heart rate was also monitored during the therapy. According to the results in the tables, there
was enough evidence for the people who conducted this study to say that VRT is
effective. I could possibly use this
study in my paper if I was to go into how to overcome public speaking anxiety
but I don’t know if I will be doing so.
The source seems valid but I am not fully convinced that VRT is as
effective as the extent that the author claims it is.
Wong, Jessica. "5 Tips To Improve Your Public
Speaking Skills." Web log post. Makeuseof.
N.p., 11 Dec. 2009.
Web. 20 Nov. 2012.
<http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-tips-to-improve-your-public-speaking-skills/>.
This blog article
explains five steps to become a better public speaker which includes:
1. Engage your audience 2. Get to know your audience
3. Stay positive 4. Be concise 5. Give your work a captivating title. The main idea for this blog article is to inform
the reader that learning how to become a better speaker is not all that
hard. I feel that this could be useful
if I were to argue that speech giving skills are learned through nurture and
not nature. Being that this is a blog,
it is not fully credible and probably shouldn’t be used to support my main
topic of inquiry.
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