Speaking Article Reviews Samples For Students

Chapter 1

- Why are communication skills important to your career?
Communication skills for one on one communication help one in taking a job interview. It enables you to be brief and interesting, but yet convincing increasing the chances of securing a job. Oral communication skills are very important in the job market as being a good communicator enhances the way you communicate with your co workers as well as the public.
It helps one to learn how to speak to his audience such as in court, at work, in school among others.
It equips the leaner with communication skills that ...

Chapter 16 Notes and Reflection

Introduction
Chapter 16 of Public Speaking for College and Career is about the art of persuasion, specifically persuasive speeches. Some of the concepts that are explicitly explored in this chapter include persuasive speaking goals, the different types of persuasive speeches and the organization patterns of persuasive speeches.
In simple terms, persuasion means influencing, changing or reinforcing the thoughts, views, beliefs or opinions of people. There are three main goals of persuasive speaking. These are winning over the audience so that they assume your intended view or take an action; knowing and understanding the subject of discussion thoroughly; ...

The assessment practices that evaluate English language learners often underestimate the academic and cognitive abilities of the Spanish-speaking students. If the education system is dedicated to developing the biliterate and bilingual pupils in the schools, then the tutors and administrators must analyze both dialects. The outline provided by Escamilla and Coady provides samples of texts written in Spanish by the students who are writing and reading in Spanish. The chapter also gives examples written in English from those learning in English and texts from the Spanish learners who have just commenced their schooling in English. This paper looks at ...

It is important to study about language and verbal behavior because it helps understand other people in a better way. Language or verbal behavior is defined as an operant behavior, which is strengthened by other people’s mediation (Skinner, 1957). This can be well explained as a practical relationship existing between the behavior of a person speaking, as well as the conditions in their environment. However, in this relationship, an important question, on how reinforcement between the speaker and the other people occurs arises.
According to research, it is clear that children acquire a number of language skills mainly without any instructions. ...

Abstract

Despite receiving little attention from many, the subject of Pentecostal soteriology continues to confuse majority of the congregation with a few of them having little insight, if any on matters of the Holy Spirit and baptism. Often these subjects are tackled by church ministers who often suffer from prejudice, sometimes lacking the expertise to interpret scripts from the bible. Previous studies also do not offer convincing enlightenment on the same subject. Following this trail, this paper refers to some prior studies and continues to guide the reader through a journey on the study of the Pentecost along with its integration to ...

Speakers who are distinctly blessed with the art of speaking have a way of communicating that with no doubt many people identify with. One such orator and icon of the black people in America is Malcolm X. he may not have been alone because others suh as martin Luther King Junior were also so good in speaking their minds out but Malcolm X stands out as a very persuasive orator because he had a way of speaking his mind strongly without mincing words. He could also point out facts without fear of being intimidated neither by the society nor by the government.
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There are so many nurses in the country, so people might think that their voice would be clear and heard out loud. However, that is not the case. It is not always easy to talk about issues, especially if it would have a direct effect on your job. I have to agree with Garon. According to Garon, it is important that nurses realize the need to speak up and be heard at work. It is important not just for the satisfaction at work, but also to have better team work and to provide outmost patient safety. (Garon 2012). I ...

Summary

According to philospher Justice in Swerissen and Duckett article a good death is about how individuals wish to die and reasons on the cause of good death. It makes pain life experiences to these people and family responses to the issue of terminating his life to avoid more pschological and cycological stress. The communirty at large has arole to play in ensuring that these patients are highly protected and care. Education and setting good standards for health services ensures that good life ending for these patients and their preferences maintained.
A good death is one where an individual decides ...

The relations of the couples are usually a complex interaction that involves various levels of comprehension and attachment, as well as different situations including conflict ones. It seems sometimes not clear why some relations are more stable whereas the others are falling apart quickly. The fact is that people are different and they tend to behave in a different way when in a couple. This is why it is necessary to understand the individual features of the person and its combination in partner relationship.
The proposed empirical study is aimed to investigate the correlation between attachment insecurity, perception of ...

ARTICLE DISCUSSION

Essay
The basic principles of Economics might seem very primitive for someone. Even though, they usually easily describe the basic principles of life. The well known demand - supply balance works in every field of our life starting from buying stuff at the grocery store to searching for a person to spend your life with.

Article description

In this essay I would like to discuss the article written by Bob Davis called “The Thorny Economics of Illegal Immigration” from the Wall Street Journal. This article is about the issues that appeared as a result of an immigration policy that was invented ...

- What is important to know in this chapter for quizzes? (Use this to record your text notes. Be specific, clear and thorough for your own benefit.)

It is important to know that for any speech to be coherent and flawless there is a need for prior preparations. One of the major preparations for a good speech is the formulation of an outline. An outline helps the speaker to be able to logically organize their ideas and correct some of the weaknesses that might result from their thought pattern. In the formulation of an outline one has to create a title about what they are going to talk about (Gregory 237). The title should be followed by the purpose and central ideas that the speaker seeks to present to ...

Cultural and linguistic diversity is slowly but surely being wiped out by the influence of the western culture. The western influence continues to break the social fabric of many societies in the world. This is especially true for minority communities which speak minority languages and have no capacity to subdue this emerging trend. There is distribution of literary works in the global arena essentially transcending the country where they originate. Today readers have unlimited access to an array of literary works from all corners of the world in outstanding translations and a lively debate has come up regarding both political ...

Isabelle Duyvesteyn in her article titled “How New Is the New Terrorism?” quite elaborately breaks down terrorism in the post-modern world and how the mindsets of people had been shaped around it. She analyzes the different aspects of terrorism and tackles the subject with not only her own views, but also historical and factual evidence to back up her arguments regarding terrorism in the new world or the “new” aspects of terrorism. She is of the view that the contrary to a popular belief, terrorism is not a “new” entity in the post-modern world.
Similarly, she states that to understand “ ...

Considering human rights as an issue without culture, diversity, and without complicated frameworks means it is about what it implies – "human" rights. In reality, the question arises why Western ideology of feminism exhibit so many gaps when it comes to the female of the human species. The Western feminist belief about human rights as a means for establishing a commonality among global women empowerment causes limitations in bridging gaps from a global perspective and consequently demands a new way of thinking.
Theorists on universalism and women's human rights including Grewal, Bunch, and Hua provide the textual dialogue for examining this predicament. Globally, ...

Response Paper on a Cultural Studies Approach to Technological Culture

The readings covered this week dealt on the perceptions and judgments associated with technology and culture. My interest in technology is unquestionable and this week reading has given me a chance to explore the relationship the relationships pertaining to this phenomenon. According to technology and culture is of interest because it combines the human perspectives of what technology enables people to execute in everyday lives including the perceptions and judgments of how such undertakings affect them. The book provides a thorough analysis of causality, agency, articulation and assemblage, space, identity, politics, and globalization. All these features illustrate a relationship between technology and ...

Question 1

In reference to the two articles, teachers have the possibility of enhancing their students' text processing by facilitating their capacity to read and thus interact effectively with the text also referred to as comprehending the text and its content. Comprehension of text by students can be facilitated by teachers by teaching them on building vocabulary words, decoding skills, assisting the depict fluency in their reading, involve in text self responses and finally help the strengthen their background knowledge (Kintsch, 1998).

Question 2

I will choose vocabulary.com as it contains different kinds of words as addressed by the article as one of ...

The article under review is titled “The critical period for language acquisition: Evidence from second language learning” by Catherine Snow and Marian Hoefnagal-Hohle.

The article was developed to deal with the common debate that common formulation of the critical period hypothesis that younger is always better in L2A. The article claims that according to critical period hypothesis, first language acquisition needs to take place prior to the completion of cerebral lateralization, around puberty age.
The authors make one anticipation of the aforesaid hypothesis, stating that second language acquisition is likely to be more rapid, successful, and qualitatively same ...

The basic premise of Perani et al.’s paper is to use brain imaging PET scans to investigate what areas of the brain are activated in a person speaking his native language (L1) versus the areas of the brain activated by a person speaking a second language (L2). Additionally, the researchers seek to investigate whether the age of L2 acquisition affect “patterns of acquision” within the brain, or whether language proficiency has more affect over the activated areas within the brain (Perani et al. 1998, p. 1841).

The introduction also offers other areas for which this research is useful, for example, “language ...

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MEMO: SILENCE Page 1 of 3

Introduction: The article “Is Silence Killing Your Company?” has interesting information about creating healthy communications in a company. The purpose of this memo is to share and discuss the main points in the article because they are helpful to company management. Both of the articles referred to in this memo can be found in the Harvard Business Review which is a peer-reviewed journal.

Silence is Unhealthy: Unfortunately people that speak out are famous as being whistleblowers who lose their jobs. They may even become ostracized from their profession. Speaking out is not thought of ...

Tickner: “Three Voices of Man: Gendered Perspectives on Global Economic Security”

Tickner’s article discusses the various political practices adopted by states in order to promote their economic security. The author’s central idea is that, “the liberal, the economic nationalist, and the Marxist approaches to international political economy are biased towards masculine representations” (Tickner 90). The piece is written in Tickner’s usual style: conventional and educational, but not overly accessible to a wide audience.
A particularly interesting point of Tickner’s is that concerning the term “positive peace,” coined in the early 1970s. Speaking of the developing world, Tickner says: “The legitimacy of states that failed to meet ...

The theory of sustainable development is perhaps the most equivocal factor that has dominated many debates in addition to generating equally varied interpretations from environmentalists. Sustainable development places significant importance on the maintenance of natural resources. For this reason, several values often emerge when defining or during the inclusion of natural resources. Resources come in different types that can be categorized as renewable and non-renewable. While resources are useful for the survival of humans both in supporting life and in meeting people’s needs, the satisfaction of human needs and scarcity of resources has led to several resistances. Such ...

Part I: Using the questions in the Munro article, go through the two pieces of criticism by Greenberg and Rosenberg and write answers for each question posed by Munro.

In Greenberg’s “Towards a Newer Laocoon,” the work being criticized seemed to be art in general, and the struggle between all different types of art to become the dominant art form relative to its period. For the most part, Greenberg discusses avant-garde painting, and how it had and continue to has a purity that elevates itself above most art forms. He claims that there are no greater justifications for depicting nature ...

Introduction

People, because of their social interaction among themselves, always determine their social, physical, and emotional development and the way they take life in future. Hence, stuttering is one of the contributors of how an individual develops in the above development area of an individual life.

This literature review will look at stuttering as an obstacle towards the achievement towards the achievement of a positive take by an individual towards life. On the same, the age bracket that will be used as a case study will be between 3-4 years, studying a population of 3-4 number of children as a representative of the group ...