Welcome to the class blog of COM 315! This course adderssses the specific challenges involved in communicating complex, technical information to both lay and experienced audiences. Throughout the semester, we will be reading several journal articles relating to how presenters can communicate complex ideas in a clear and understanding way. Students are required to reflect on these articles in the blog, as well as apply the readings to real-world instances.

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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Relating to Audience

This article was about successful communication with an audience. Elucidating explanations, polling the audience (a simple hand-raise question to get them involved), and quasi-scientific explanations are seen as three ways to make a speech more successful and to make a speech more comprehensible for an audience. I agree that the techniques of using definitions, giving examples, and non-examples can be effective during a speech to inform the audience on the topic at hand.
Using these techniques aids a speaker to relay their information effectively to the audience with fewer barriers in the communication process.

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