Chapter 1: Everyday Speaking
Public speaking is a valuable skill that will help throughout your personal and professional life. By becoming a confident public speaker, your deficiency needs (i.e., your basic human needs) as well as your growth needs (higher-order human needs) can be more easily attained. From a professional point of view, skills in public speaking will help you to promote yourself, present your ideas, create changes in the workplace, make your presence felt at meetings, and develop active listening skills. There are also public reasons for improving your speech skills. These reasons include becoming a better critical thinker, functioning more as an informed citizen, preserving your freedom of speech, raising the level of public discourse, and promoting ethical behavior. The process of a speech is best viewed through a transactional model with a system of interdependent components, all of which are capable of affecting one another. The basic components of the speech transaction include situation, speaker and audience, message, construction and interpretation of symbols, channels, and perception.
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