COMUNICATION STATEGIES

REFERENCE TO AN OCCASION OR EVENT

• Occasion: A special day like holidays or birthdays
• Event: Sporting, parties celebrations, Gatherings
• Time:Remember the time... Reference to personal history or experience.

THANK YOU STATEMENTS

• People like to thanked and appreciated
• Use thank you statements at the end of a speech

SUMMARIZING MAIN PONTS

• Essential facts
• Major points
• Don't be redundant

USING SUSPENSE

• Give hints and clues, but not all info.
• Answer slowly throughout.
• Be sure to give all info by the end

ISSUING CHALLENGE/CALL TO ACTION

• If you want someone to do something ask!
• State what you want them to do
• Tell them the connection to what you're talking about.

ASKING QUESTIONS

• Get audience thinking!
• Engage people
• If appropriate let audience answer.

VISUAL AIDS

• Eye catchers keep audience interested and focused!
• Make them radiant and interesting
• Don't pass them around
• Have at least 3

STORYTELLING

• Everybody loves stories!
• Use them to give your a personal purpose and plot.

VOICE

• Person behind the work or writing
• Writers perspective and personality

CODE SWITCHING

• Change the way you speak and behave.
• Depending where you are and who you are with.

BACKGROUND INFO

• Get familiar with the topic or subject
• Acquire knowledge
• What's the history?

USING QUOTATIONS

• Quote the words of others word for word
• Use it to increase interest and depth to your speech

MOTTOS AND MANTRAS

• Words/sayings to live by
• Wise sayings, proverbs
• Like quotes, add depth

PERSONAL INFERENCE

• People are interested in other people!
• Let them get to know you!

TONE AND MOOD

• What the attitude of you speaking is like
• The way your story makes other people feel

LITERARY ELEMENTS

• Key words to use when reading and analyzing literature.
• Plot
• Character
• Backstory

BRAINSTORMIMG

• Generating ideas
• Finding ideas
• Organizing and combining ideas
• Open thinking

ALLUSION

• Refer to others work
• Adds confidence in your work

IMAGERY

• Point at or display a picture
• Add words to the picture
• Use when words cannot describe something