วันอาทิตย์ที่ 10 กุมภาพันธ์ พ.ศ. 2556

The Speech


The Gettysburg Address



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Women's right to the suffrage

วันเสาร์ที่ 9 กุมภาพันธ์ พ.ศ. 2556

Read the business article and written discussion (Page 44)



Read the business article and written discussion (Page 44)

From the article Page 44, that talks about presentation technique. Presentation is essential to our daily life. Whether in the classroom or in the workplace. I think that presentations can be used in the future of the business. The presentation must be aware of the need to lead a good presentation.

In presentation,You can speak with confidence, clarity and conviction when you polish your presentation skills. The power of public speaking is a key leadership skill. Your ability to communicate will take you farther than any other skill set. Communicate well. Communicate effectively and communicate your message so that others listen, understand and act.

All speeches should have a definite structure or format; a talk without a structure is a woolly mess. If you do not order your thoughts into a structured manner, the audience will not be able to follow them. Having established the aim of your presentation you should choose the most appropriate structure to achieve it. However, the structure must not get in the way of the main message. If it is too complex, too convoluted or simply too noticeable the audience will be distracted. If a section is unnecessary to the achievement of your fundamental objectives, pluck it out.

Once the speech is over and you have calmed down, you should try to honestly evaluate your performance. Either alone, or with the help of a friend in the audience, decide what was the least successful aspect of your presentation and resolve to concentrate on that point in the next talk you give. If it is a problem associated with the preparation, then deal with it there; if it is a problem with your delivery, write yourself a reminder note and put it in front of you at the next talk. Practice is only productive when you make a positive effort to improve - try it.

Read the business article and written discussion (Page 35)


Read the business article and written discussion (Page 35)

From the article page 35, Talks about the culture of across national communication. Cross-cultural communication is a process of exchanging, negotiating, and mediating one's cultural differences through language, non-verbal gestures, and space relationships.  It is also the process by which people express their openness to an intercultural experience. Communication is interactive, so an important influence on its effectiveness is our relationship with others.

Cross-cultural communication exists when people from differing cultures have reached a certain degree of understanding regarding their differences. For understanding to take place, both people must have some form of knowledge or awareness regarding the norms or customs that exist in each other's culture. Verbal and nonverbal communications can contain implied meanings, as well as certain degrees of symbolism. For successful communication to take place, background knowledge concerning values, norms and perceptions is necessary in order for clear, effective communication to take place. Cross cultural communication is not the sole reserve of the business world. In fact, all of us in one form or another come across situations that require some kind of cross cultural communication and understanding.

Even in your own culture, the verbal and non-verbal communications have different meanings to different people. And just like in your own culture there are miss-understandings happening all the time, and just over simple things where both of you speak the same language. So it is fairly safe to assume that there are going to be miss-understandings in cross-cultural communications as well due to verbal and non-verbal communication having different meanings to different people.

However, in the conversation in cross-cultural. Some learning the basics about culture and at least something about the language of communication in different countries is important.