Question #2

Pick one concept from the assigned reading that you found useful or interesting and discuss it.



Ans: chapter 2 explains what speech anxiety is, "refers to fear of speaking in front of an audience". Speech anxiety comes from seven different sources of uncertainty: the speaker's role, speaking abilities, ones ideas, the audience's response towards the speaker, the setting, the technology and last how others will evaluate the speaker. The book expresses the different ways to cope with these issues, and the one that I find most useful is practicing your speech. By practicing your speech one will lower the level of anxiety because the more you practice your speech the more comfortable you, the speaker, feels. The book suggests practicing in a location similar to one where you will give his/her speech to reduce the uncertainty of the setting, and to practice in front of an audience so they could give you feedback and lower speech anxiety. Practice makes better.