Sawyer Ohman CMM110-A 9/29/23 Journal #8 The speech that I gave was well done, but it was very long. Part of the problem was I hadn’t rehearsed my speech enough. I ended up repeating points that I had already made. My peers’ feedback helped me to understand that I need to organize my thoughts in a more straightforward way. As well as repeating myself I also used a lot of filler words such as “like” and “umm”. This slows my…
Sawyer Ohman CMM110-A 9/25/23 MY BEST ADVICE: The best advice I gave was to Kit, their speech was about bettering their personal self. I enjoyed her speech but they needed to work more on the delivery of their speech. Of course it was one of the first times they had read the speech especially to an audience, but it didn’t flow. The speech was very well written but Kit found it was difficult to read the page out loud word…
Sawyer Ohman CMM110-A 9/13/23 BLOG-PROJ Week #2 I enjoyed this post a lot, my father would take me fishing all the time when I was very young. Even when I was too young to hold a rod I was on the boat with my family watching my father and mother take turns reeling in fish. St. Croix is attempting to make a personal connection with people who are passionate about fishing. Whether they would go out fishing with their mother…
Sawyer Ohman CMM110-A 9/13/23 BLOG-PROJ Week #1 St.Croix Rods, a manufacturer of fishing rods for over seventy years is an American company, originally producing fishing poles out of bamboo. They have refined fiberglass and carbon composite materials to be used in their newest products, revolutionizing the fishing industry. Many tournament fishermen, specifically fishing for largemouth bass, represent St. Croix as one of their sponsors and the company continues to grow. The Company is trying to convey to their audience that…
Sawyer Ohman CMM110-A 9/14/23 PG 277 para 3 PG 280 para 7 Q: “As already mentioned, you must establish and maintain an appropriate relationship with an audience and base decisions about a speech partly on that relationship.” (PG 277 para 3) C: A speaker can only be successful in conveying information if they first establish a connection between themselves and the audience. Another example referenced in the book is the famous “My fellow Americans…” quote from President Obama. Americans everywhere…
Sawyer Ohman CMM110-A 9/7/23 Journal #5 PG 25 PARA 2 This passage I found to be quite confusing or hard for me to understand. The study of rhetoric is a well known practice and can be related to many different parts of communication. Public speaking is very important to the study of rhetoric, and although good written work and good speaking share similar skills they are different practices. Rhetoric allows students to identify hidden messages of words and phrases used…
Sawyer Ohman CMM110-A 9/7/23 Journal #4 I want to become a better version of my personal self, I will connect with the audience by using good public speaking practices. I will speak clearly and loudly, taking my time to pronounce words. I think that my peers will find my goals of self improvement to be very relatable and therefore they will be more inclined to listen and ask me questions. I will attempt not to relate everything to an experience…
Sawyer Ohman CMM110-A 9/7/23 Journal #3 The author Kevin Kelly makes a good point by connecting our basic love for animals and nature to our love for technology. “Maybe our technophilia is merely biophilia in disguise. (Pg 3, Pa,2)” Humans have a deep connection with nature, from our pets to house plants and wild animals we might find on our property. We have compassion for living and moving things, and so technophilia is a product of our deep love for…
Sawyer Ohman 9/4/23 CMM110-A Journal #2 Passage #1 (PG #8, Para #3) I found this passage to be confusing but after a second read I enjoyed the explanation that was given even though it was contradictory to my natural idea. My definition of a sign was based on stop signs and billboards. But those objects aren’t signs at all, they are symbols. Images of beaches and coronas or performers in a circus, they are symbols which represent something unique in…
Sawyer Ohman CMM110-A 9/2/23 Journal Entry #1 Communication Communicating is a universal function, every human being, every animal, even plants communicate with each other. Communication takes many different forms, it can be both verbal and physical. We communicate verbally by sounds, singing, talking, yelling, are all examples of verbal communication. Physical communication is an action which we do to convey a message or information. Hand gestures, dancing, kissing a loved one are ways of conveying feelings and thoughts. We are…
