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Assignment of Academic Writing

Confidence in Becoming a Public Speaker

By Diago Sofrano
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I. INTRODUCTION

Someone have to know them self before making a conversation. It is very hard
to become like we wanted, in this case we like to be a person that always ready to
speak in front of public. But this is not impossible.

A great speaker is when someone communicates according to his/her


motivation, a motivation to give new acknowledgement to his/her audience. It means
that motivation will be more important than age, rank, race, religion, knowledge,
gender, and anything else when communicating. But the problem is not all people can
speak well in front of public. This is just the same with my experience, that there are
many problems that can’t be explained when speak in front of public. This is why I
wanted to take this topic to be my report.

Everyone must be nervous to speak in front of public. As a result, rise a


perception if want to be a good public speaker someone must have a basic skill called
soft skill. However, lots of well-known public speaker said that they always nervous
seconds before speaking in front of public. It means that limited soft skill isn’t a
reason for someone to be incompetence to speak in front of public. That self-distrust
is affected with how far someone prepares themselves to speak in front of public.

Another problem is the limitation of speaker’s materials. A speaker always


hope get many support in the material that he/she will be presents. But much people
tend to feel less-care about this, especially when they compare themselves with status,
appearance, income, or the knowledge of the will-be-listeners that they will face.
Frontally this will make depression. So a power from each individual to think
positively will be needed. The potentials in them just have to be grinded.

Based on the background above, the discussion of this report will be focused
on how important the understanding of motivation to communicate and how
important to self-prepare before speaking in front of public. For that I make some
points like these:
1. What is public speaking and the needs of it in the everyday life?
2. How to raise the self-confidence to becoming a public speaker?
3. What strategy and preparation should use when speak in front of public?
4. How to effectively communicate?

The reasons I write this report are:


1. To know what is public speaking and the importance of this in life.
2. To help reduce the nervous so someone confidence to speak in front of public.
3. To know the strategy and good preparation.
4. To add some knowledge about the techniques to becoming a good public
speaker.
II. DISCUSSION

Many public figures that already known in this entire world, is known not
because of their wealth or their position, but because their skill to inspirate and
motivate millions of people. This skill is called Public Speaking. But at these times,
this skill maybe won’t make us do the same thing like those public figures in the past.
However, it almost sure that this skill will make us reach a big success in many
things.

In Indonesia, people tend to appreciate and accept someone who can deliver
their ideas in a language that public understands. This proves that communicating
skills, public speaking especially, becoming a must-have skill for someone so they
can compete in this life.

The purpose for public speaking is not far from communicating; to deliver a
message or idea to public with good methods so public can accept the message or
idea, and then get the advantages from the message. Because of this, a public speaker
is demanded to choose the best method to deliver their ideas.

The methods of public speaking that I know are classified into three:
1. Impromptu speech; means someone only make small
preparation before speaking. In another words, a speaker speaks
suddenly.
2. Manuscript speech; means someone can see a script when
speaking
3. Extemporaneous speech; means someone without using any
script can speak their ideas better. In this case the speaker is
often made improvisation.

Further more, to become a good public speaker someone must have a big
confidence, an optimal preparation, a good vocabulary, eye contact and a good body
language, and skill to take full control of the audience.
Someone that feels humble or depressive is they who never try to show their
potency. As a result, the confidence gets beated by fear and nervous which are always
strikes before doing something. It have to realize that those fears will slowly fade if
we often do something that we fear, and then making a mistake, and carefully takes
the lesson from every mistakes we’ve made.

In addition, fear and nervousness can be minimized by making several


approaches. First is rational approach, means think to not to be a coward and
strengthen their speaking motivation when speaking. Second is physical approach, is
by doing relaxation and make temporary pain that is intended to divert the pain itself.
Third is mental approach, which can be done by visualizing the audience and self-
talking to convince yourself before speaking in front of public. And the last is
practical action, is by making optimal preparation and act as if daring when speak.

Duty of a public speaker is to convey ideas to the audience and the idea has
the potential to influence the actions of the audience. Therefore, the optimal
preparation is needed before making a presentation in front of an audience. I
summarize the strategy and preparation into five:
1. Knowing the audience, this can help us in choosing materials, preparing, and
presenting it with the right strategy.
2. The General; the number of audience, age range, gender, occupation,
education, religion, and cultural customs.
3. The Primary; consider your audience coming motivation, note the level of the
audience knowledge, and consider the possibility of audience reaction or
attitude.
4. Organizing the materials. The more information you get, the better your
preparation is.
5. Knowing the place of speech. A good speaker will first identify the field
where he/she will speak.
6. Physical appearance. Audiences tend to give an assessment when they
received the first impression given by the speaker.
Speaking effectively is a way to deliver ideas to someone or public orally
which is easy to accept by the listener. Basically, speaking effectively on any occasion
consisted of three main elements; the opening, the content or core of the problem, and
cover.

To become a good and attractive speaker who can give effects to the listeners,
someone needs the techniques of public speaking:
1. Interesting opening. The opening is a first impression, meaning that it can
influence the audience's view of public speakers during the presentation. How
short the presentation is, the opening should remain warm. The opening can be
done with an illustration or emerging story, but relevant to the subject. When
presenting, show a friendly face, friendly, and close.
2. Use joke. Humor may contain risk. This is because by its universal nature,
while each individual's tastes are very personal and individual. However,
despite the risk of good humor can be an effective beginning to seek the
attention of the listener. The materials of joke is very broad, because it can be
taken from various stories, everyday cases, image ads, other people's
experiences, research results, etc.
3. Breath. Good position to control the breathing is standing upright in order to
provide better space for the lungs. To speak in public, needed space for the
voice that can deliver solid long sentences in the correct volume.
4. The volume. The success in speaking is not always determined by the
loudness. The volume of voice when speaking in public is only a little louder
than talking volume daily. Speaking at full volume is only required in certain
parts only. The rest, talking loud too often can cause throat damage and bored
the audience.
5. Vocal expression. The expression is an important factor in sound processing.
Good sound would be more meaningful if accompanied by appropriate
expression.
III. CONCLUSSION

The need of speaking skill in front of public is absolute. This ability underlies
the success of every person in various fields. A public speaker with his role as
influencers and benefits for the listener is required to appear perfectly. All speech,
appearance, and behavior can be an inspiration to his audience. Therefore, the
elements of speaking motivation must be attached in order to avoid a public speaker
doubt with his/her abilities.

The calm of a public speaker is determined by the perfection of its preparation.


Then each process is done by systematic exercise. Then, a public speaker will success
if he/she had succeeded in running the strategy and apply the techniques of effective
communication. Strategies and techniques are implemented before speaking,
speaking, after speaking, and during the repetition of activities at the next opportunity.
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Gregory, Hamilton. 1990. Public Speaking for College and Career. U.S.A.: McGraw-
Hill publishing company.

Juniarti, Elly dan Pramana. 2006. General Public Speaking. Jakarta: Public Speaking
School.

www.wikipedia.com

Google search engine.

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