Explain the four methods of speech delivery and list the advantages and disadvantages of each
What will be an ideal response?
Manuscript—reading from a prepared text.Advantage: you can craft the message carefully; the language can be refined, polished, and stylized.Disadvantage: likely to sound read; takes great skill to make it sound interesting.Memorized—presenting from memory.Advantage: direct eye contact; freedom of movement and gestures.Disadvantage: may sound overrehearsed and mechanical; one may forget his/her speech.Impromptu—delivering without advance preparation.Advantage: easily adapt to audience reaction; audience sees and hears a truly authentic speech.Disadvantage: likely to be less organized and less smoothly delivered; more difficult to cite sources.Extemporaneous—know the major ideas which have been outlined, but the exact wording is determined upon delivery.Advantage: well-organized and researched; sounds spontaneous yet polished.Disadvantage: time; skill.
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Consider the following excerpt from the description of methods in:
Townsley, N.C. & Geist, P. (2000). The discursive enactment of hegemony: Sexual harassment and academic organizing. Western Journal of Communication, 64(2), 190-217. “We attempted to “give voice” to the victims’ stories otherwise not heard or validated organizationally (Perry & Geist, 1997: Petronio, Flores, & Hecht, 1997) by conducting the interviews in a non-directional manner. Rather than having a strict interview schedule, we asked victims of harassment to “describe their experience of unwanted sexual attention. . . We were rather cognizant of the obvious power differential between researchers and the research “subjects” and the benefits that we gain from informant stories. To reconcile the discord at least minimally, we utilized feminist based, conversational interviewing techniques and discussed our vulnerabilities as researchers with each other and with our participants (Oakley, 1981)” (pp. 198-199). Which type of qualitative interview did Townsley and Geist conduct? a. ethnographic conversations b. depth interviews c. focus interviews d. postmodern interviews