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The Fear of Public Speaking by Joi Corral
When I was a child, I was really shy and never really spoke. Usually it was my cousins or my mother that would handle the conversation for me. I remember giving my first speech in middle school in eighth grade. When I was pick first to give out my speech, I felt my hands shake nervously as I held my paper and my voice started to stutter over every word. There was this feeling of fear and anxiety going through my body that I started to speak fast so I can go back to my seat and listen to someone else speak.
What is Glossophobia ? It is the fear of of public speaking or just speaking in general. There is a statistics that said, "Roughly 40 million people in the U.S. aged 18 or older suffer from different forms of anxiety."(Rebecca Lake, 2015). Glossophobia is number thirteen in " Top 100 Phobias" according to www.fearof.net. There are a lot of websites that talks about over coming fear of public speaking from herbal remedies to medicine or just go to a course on public speaking. Here are some of the physical symptoms of Glossophobia and they are panic attacks characterized by sweating or trembling, dry mouth, nausea and vomiting in the extreme cases, stiffness in the neck and back muscles,tense and weak or quivering voice. It is a subset of Social Phobia or fear of social situations.
Most of the time people who have Glossophobia have low self-esteem, stage fright, expect perfection in everything they do, seek constant approval, or expect failure. According to Glossophobia: The Fear of Public Speaking written by Lisa Fritscher, many people with Glossophobia do not consider dancing or singing in front of people a problem because they do not have to talk.
There are ways to help with people who have glossophobia and sometime it can be medications that might help or cognitive-behavioral therapy. One of ways is having to practice speaking to a group of people you are comfortable with or just taking a course on public speaking might help you. Others will say take some sort of therapy like cognitive-behavioral therapy also called CBT or medication that relieves like Ativan , anti-anxiety drugs, and Propranolol.
How I conquered my fear of public speaking was taking a mandatory speech class in high school. My speech teacher was this elderly lady named Ms. Dobbs, she actually taught me some techniques that actually worked for me. Some of the things she taught was to practice my speech in front of a mirror before class starts and another was to imagine that my audience are in their underwear or imagine that they are not there. There was so many facts on this phobia and there were some people who actually put their story on the internet about Glossophobia and how they were able to conquer or overcome that fear.
references:
Carbonell, David. "Overcome Fear of Public Speaking." Overcome Fear of Public Speaking. David Carbonell, n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2016.
Fritscher, Lisa. "Glossophobia: The Fear of Public Speaking." Verywell. Board-certified Physician, 2 Apr. 2016. Web. 31 Aug. 2016
Segnit, Seymour. "GlossophobiaHow to Overcome." CTRN Change Thats Right Now. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2016.
Hall-Flavin, David K. "Phobias." Fear of Public Speaking: How Can I Overcome It? Mayo Clinic, 25 Feb. 2014. Web. 31 Aug. 2016.
PEREIRA, SANGEETA. "Drugs And Medications To Treat Glossophobia."Search Home Remedy. SearchHomeRemedy.com, n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2016.
What is Glossophobia ? It is the fear of of public speaking or just speaking in general. There is a statistics that said, "Roughly 40 million people in the U.S. aged 18 or older suffer from different forms of anxiety."(Rebecca Lake, 2015). Glossophobia is number thirteen in " Top 100 Phobias" according to www.fearof.net. There are a lot of websites that talks about over coming fear of public speaking from herbal remedies to medicine or just go to a course on public speaking. Here are some of the physical symptoms of Glossophobia and they are panic attacks characterized by sweating or trembling, dry mouth, nausea and vomiting in the extreme cases, stiffness in the neck and back muscles,tense and weak or quivering voice. It is a subset of Social Phobia or fear of social situations.
Most of the time people who have Glossophobia have low self-esteem, stage fright, expect perfection in everything they do, seek constant approval, or expect failure. According to Glossophobia: The Fear of Public Speaking written by Lisa Fritscher, many people with Glossophobia do not consider dancing or singing in front of people a problem because they do not have to talk.
There are ways to help with people who have glossophobia and sometime it can be medications that might help or cognitive-behavioral therapy. One of ways is having to practice speaking to a group of people you are comfortable with or just taking a course on public speaking might help you. Others will say take some sort of therapy like cognitive-behavioral therapy also called CBT or medication that relieves like Ativan , anti-anxiety drugs, and Propranolol.
How I conquered my fear of public speaking was taking a mandatory speech class in high school. My speech teacher was this elderly lady named Ms. Dobbs, she actually taught me some techniques that actually worked for me. Some of the things she taught was to practice my speech in front of a mirror before class starts and another was to imagine that my audience are in their underwear or imagine that they are not there. There was so many facts on this phobia and there were some people who actually put their story on the internet about Glossophobia and how they were able to conquer or overcome that fear.
references:
Carbonell, David. "Overcome Fear of Public Speaking." Overcome Fear of Public Speaking. David Carbonell, n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2016.
Fritscher, Lisa. "Glossophobia: The Fear of Public Speaking." Verywell. Board-certified Physician, 2 Apr. 2016. Web. 31 Aug. 2016
Segnit, Seymour. "GlossophobiaHow to Overcome." CTRN Change Thats Right Now. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2016.
Hall-Flavin, David K. "Phobias." Fear of Public Speaking: How Can I Overcome It? Mayo Clinic, 25 Feb. 2014. Web. 31 Aug. 2016.
PEREIRA, SANGEETA. "Drugs And Medications To Treat Glossophobia."Search Home Remedy. SearchHomeRemedy.com, n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2016.
Fear of Public Speaking By Joi Corral
When I was a child, I was really shy and never really spoke. Usually it was my cousins or my mother that would handle the conversation for me. I remember giving my first speech in middle school in eighth grade. When I was pick first to give out my speech, I felt my hands shake nervously as I held my paper and my voice started to stutter over every word. There was this feeling of fear and anxiety going through my body that I started to speak fast so I can go back to my seat and listen to someone else speak.
What is Glossophobia ? It is the fear of of public speaking or just speaking in general. There is a statistics that said, "Roughly 40 million people in the U.S. aged 18 or older suffer from different forms of anxiety."(Rebecca Lake, 2015). Glossophobia is number thirteen in " Top 100 Phobias" according to www.fearof.net. There are a lot of websites that talks about over coming fear of public speaking from herbal remedies to medicine or just go to a course on public speaking. Here are some of the physical symptoms of Glossophobia and they are panic attacks characterized by sweating or trembling, dry mouth, nausea and vomiting in the extreme cases, stiffness in the neck and back muscles,tense and weak or quivering voice. It is a subset of Social Phobia or fear of social situations.
Most of the time people who have Glossophobia have low self-esteem, stage fright, expect perfection in everything they do, seek constant approval, or expect failure. According to Glossophobia: The Fear of Public Speaking written by Lisa Fritscher, many people with Glossophobia do not consider dancing or singing in front of people a problem because they do not have to talk.
There are ways to help with people who have glossophobia and sometime it can be medications that might help or cognitive-behavioral therapy. One of ways is having to practice speaking to a group of people you are comfortable with or just taking a course on public speaking might help you. Others will say take some sort of therapy like cognitive-behavioral therapy also called CBT or medication that relieves like Ativan , anti-anxiety drugs, and Propranolol.
How I conquered my fear of public speaking was taking a mandatory speech class in high school. My speech teacher was this elderly lady named Ms. Dobbs, she actually taught me some techniques that actually worked for me. Some of the things she taught was to practice my speech in front of a mirror before class starts and another was to imagine that my audience are in their underwear or imagine that they are not there. There was so many facts on this phobia and there were some people who actually put their story on the internet about Glossophobia and how they were able to conquer or overcome that fear.
There was a time in high school, I had to give this speech about a book and it was just any book we like because the teacher want us to give a speech on our favorite book. So the book I chose was this comic book that was set in Victorian England and it had supernatural creatures in it. I had to write about two to three pages on the comic book because the requirement was to speak about five minutes tops to get a hundred in the class. When it was my turn to do my speech I had butterflies in my stomach, my heart was pounding, and my hands started to sweat a lot as I got to the podium at the front of the classroom. Then I took a deep breath and started to do my speech with a loud voice even though I am a very quiet person. Five minutes felt longer than I expected because I felt a sense of dread in my body and that my fellow students were staring at me like I was some kind of alien or something. When I was done with my speech, there was silence at first then the teacher and everyone else started clapping and some even cheered.You know that feeling of butterflies, sweaty palms, and that feeling of dread, they were all gone at the end. After that I felt confident in speaking and giving speeches in that class.
authors not: needed to add an experience or something
references:
Carbonell, David. "Overcome Fear of Public Speaking." Overcome Fear of Public Speaking. David Carbonell, n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2016.
Fritscher, Lisa. "Glossophobia: The Fear of Public Speaking." Verywell. Board-certified Physician, 2 Apr. 2016. Web. 31 Aug. 2016
Segnit, Seymour. "GlossophobiaHow to Overcome." CTRN Change Thats Right Now. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2016.
Hall-Flavin, David K. "Phobias." Fear of Public Speaking: How Can I Overcome It? Mayo Clinic, 25 Feb. 2014. Web. 31 Aug. 2016.
PEREIRA, SANGEETA. "Drugs And Medications To Treat Glossophobia."Search Home Remedy. SearchHomeRemedy.com, n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2016.
What is Glossophobia ? It is the fear of of public speaking or just speaking in general. There is a statistics that said, "Roughly 40 million people in the U.S. aged 18 or older suffer from different forms of anxiety."(Rebecca Lake, 2015). Glossophobia is number thirteen in " Top 100 Phobias" according to www.fearof.net. There are a lot of websites that talks about over coming fear of public speaking from herbal remedies to medicine or just go to a course on public speaking. Here are some of the physical symptoms of Glossophobia and they are panic attacks characterized by sweating or trembling, dry mouth, nausea and vomiting in the extreme cases, stiffness in the neck and back muscles,tense and weak or quivering voice. It is a subset of Social Phobia or fear of social situations.
Most of the time people who have Glossophobia have low self-esteem, stage fright, expect perfection in everything they do, seek constant approval, or expect failure. According to Glossophobia: The Fear of Public Speaking written by Lisa Fritscher, many people with Glossophobia do not consider dancing or singing in front of people a problem because they do not have to talk.
There are ways to help with people who have glossophobia and sometime it can be medications that might help or cognitive-behavioral therapy. One of ways is having to practice speaking to a group of people you are comfortable with or just taking a course on public speaking might help you. Others will say take some sort of therapy like cognitive-behavioral therapy also called CBT or medication that relieves like Ativan , anti-anxiety drugs, and Propranolol.
How I conquered my fear of public speaking was taking a mandatory speech class in high school. My speech teacher was this elderly lady named Ms. Dobbs, she actually taught me some techniques that actually worked for me. Some of the things she taught was to practice my speech in front of a mirror before class starts and another was to imagine that my audience are in their underwear or imagine that they are not there. There was so many facts on this phobia and there were some people who actually put their story on the internet about Glossophobia and how they were able to conquer or overcome that fear.
There was a time in high school, I had to give this speech about a book and it was just any book we like because the teacher want us to give a speech on our favorite book. So the book I chose was this comic book that was set in Victorian England and it had supernatural creatures in it. I had to write about two to three pages on the comic book because the requirement was to speak about five minutes tops to get a hundred in the class. When it was my turn to do my speech I had butterflies in my stomach, my heart was pounding, and my hands started to sweat a lot as I got to the podium at the front of the classroom. Then I took a deep breath and started to do my speech with a loud voice even though I am a very quiet person. Five minutes felt longer than I expected because I felt a sense of dread in my body and that my fellow students were staring at me like I was some kind of alien or something. When I was done with my speech, there was silence at first then the teacher and everyone else started clapping and some even cheered.You know that feeling of butterflies, sweaty palms, and that feeling of dread, they were all gone at the end. After that I felt confident in speaking and giving speeches in that class.
authors not: needed to add an experience or something
references:
Carbonell, David. "Overcome Fear of Public Speaking." Overcome Fear of Public Speaking. David Carbonell, n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2016.
Fritscher, Lisa. "Glossophobia: The Fear of Public Speaking." Verywell. Board-certified Physician, 2 Apr. 2016. Web. 31 Aug. 2016
Segnit, Seymour. "GlossophobiaHow to Overcome." CTRN Change Thats Right Now. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2016.
Hall-Flavin, David K. "Phobias." Fear of Public Speaking: How Can I Overcome It? Mayo Clinic, 25 Feb. 2014. Web. 31 Aug. 2016.
PEREIRA, SANGEETA. "Drugs And Medications To Treat Glossophobia."Search Home Remedy. SearchHomeRemedy.com, n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2016.
The Fear of Public Speaking by Joi Corral
When I was a child, I was really shy and never really spoke. Usually it was my cousins or my mother that would handle the conversation for me. I remember giving my first speech in middle school in eighth grade. When I was pick first to give out my speech, I felt my hands shake nervously as I held my paper and my voice started to stutter over every word. There was this feeling of fear and anxiety going through my body that I started to speak fast so I can go back to my seat and listen to someone else speak.
What is Glossophobia ? It is the fear of of public speaking or just speaking in general. There is a statistics that said, "Roughly 40 million people in the U.S. aged 18 or older suffer from different forms of anxiety."(Rebecca Lake, 2015). Glossophobia is number thirteen in " Top 100 Phobias" according to www.fearof.net. There are a lot of websites that talks about over coming fear of public speaking from herbal remedies to medicine or just go to a course on public speaking. Here are some of the physical symptoms of Glossophobia and they are panic attacks characterized by sweating or trembling, dry mouth, nausea and vomiting in the extreme cases, stiffness in the neck and back muscles,tense and weak or quivering voice. It is a subset of Social Phobia or fear of social situations.
Most of the time people who have Glossophobia have low self-esteem, stage fright, expect perfection in everything they do, seek constant approval, or expect failure. According to Glossophobia: The Fear of Public Speaking written by Lisa Fritscher, many people with Glossophobia do not consider dancing or singing in front of people a problem because they do not have to talk.
There are ways to help with people who have glossophobia and sometime it can be medications that might help or cognitive-behavioral therapy. One of ways is having to practice speaking to a group of people you are comfortable with or just taking a course on public speaking might help you. Others will say take some sort of therapy like cognitive-behavioral therapy also called CBT or medication that relieves like Ativan , anti-anxiety drugs, and Propranolol.
How I conquered my fear of public speaking was taking a mandatory speech class in high school. My speech teacher was this elderly lady named Ms. Dobbs, she actually taught me some techniques that actually worked for me. Some of the things she taught was to practice my speech in front of a mirror before class starts and another was to imagine that my audience are in their underwear or imagine that they are not there. There was so many facts on this phobia and there were some people who actually put their story on the internet about Glossophobia and how they were able to conquer or overcome that fear.
There was a time in high school, I had to give this speech about a book and it was just any book we like because the teacher want us to give a speech on our favorite book. So the book I chose was this comic book that was set in Victorian England and it had supernatural creatures in it. I had to write about two to three pages on the comic book because the requirement was to speak about five minutes tops to get a hundred in the class. When it was my turn to do my speech I had butterflies in my stomach, my heart was pounding, and my hands started to sweat a lot as I got to the podium at the front of the classroom. Then I took a deep breath and started to do my speech with a loud voice even though I am a very quiet person. Five minutes felt longer than I expected because I felt a sense of dread in my body and that my fellow students were staring at me like I was some kind of alien or something. When I was done with my speech, there was silence at first then the teacher and everyone else started clapping and some even cheered.You know that feeling of butterflies, sweaty palms, and that feeling of dread, they were all gone at the end. After that I felt confident in speaking and giving speeches in that class.
I do not know what others experience on Glossophobia because not many people like talking about their fear but sometimes I notice when someone is about to speak on that podium in the classroom and they have this dread in their body and their voice starts to shaky when they talk. I do not know when I can be confident in speaking to others but I do know that it would be a major step in my life, since I am shy, feeling nervous and skittish around people, and that I do not talk a lot even when family is around.
I hope that those who read this can learn from my experience on this phobia because this fear of public speaking is something that I am struggling and even now as a young adult.
references:
Carbonell, David. "Overcome Fear of Public Speaking." Overcome Fear of Public Speaking. David Carbonell, n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2016.
Fritscher, Lisa. "Glossophobia: The Fear of Public Speaking." Verywell. Board-certified Physician, 2 Apr. 2016. Web. 31 Aug. 2016
Segnit, Seymour. "GlossophobiaHow to Overcome." CTRN Change Thats Right Now. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2016.
Hall-Flavin, David K. "Phobias." Fear of Public Speaking: How Can I Overcome It? Mayo Clinic, 25 Feb. 2014. Web. 31 Aug. 2016.
PEREIRA, SANGEETA. "Drugs And Medications To Treat Glossophobia."Search Home Remedy. SearchHomeRemedy.com, n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2016.
Fadden, Helen. "Glossophobia-Symptoms,Causes,Treatments&Overcoming Tips." Improve Your Health. N.p., 11 July 2016. Web. 01 Sept. 2016.
Writing Project 1: Autoethnography
Background and Overview
So far in our course, you have started to see that you belong to a set of communities, and these
communities—their rituals, practices, and various phenomena—are closely tied to your identity. This
relationship naturally raises various questions: How do you experience your community? What
communal rituals, practices, traditions, behaviors, and/or objects have influenced your
understanding of your identity? What does it mean to define your identity through your relationship
to these phenomena?
To explore these questions and others related to them, you will compose your first major writing
assignment—an autoethnography. To write this autoethnography, you will select a specific habit,
ritual, or behavior (what we are calling a “cultural phenomenon”) you practice and investigate it.
Doing so will help you discover what this activity says about you, your personal experiences, and
the ways those personal experiences connect to the experiences of others.
The autoethnography is both an easy and a difficult form of writing. It is easy because, we are
writing about what we know: ourselves. It is difficult because we must communicate the significance
of our experience to our audience, making a connection between our own experiences and those of our
readers. We must confront the hard truth that an event is not significant just because “it happened
to me.” The event must offer some take-‐away value, and the writer who writes about the event must
be able to answer the question “so what?” The answer to this question is the primary insight of the
autoethnography, or the ultimate point that you are trying to make. Autoethnographies are not just
chronological narrations of events; they communicate the event’s meaning and leave readers with a
dominant impression of what it might have been like to experience it themselves.
For example, you might explore
● your methods of transportation. Do you walk, ride a bike, drive, or take a train to
work/school? Why? What might your routine say about your identity or culture?
● your preferences for certain types of food. What do your choices say about your beliefs?
● your reading habits. Do you read the newspaper over coffee? Do you read before bed? What do
you read? Why? What might these habits convey about your age, class, or social group?
Requirements and Deliverables
1. In your essay, you should select one habit, ritual, practice, or behavior and reflect upon
this “phenomenon,” articulating why and how it has been significant for you. How have you been
shaped as a person within your larger community by this activity?
2. Whatever your topic habit, ritual, practice, or behavior, your essay should be informed by
close
observation and provide a level of detail through example, anecdote, and explanation, which enables
a reader to relate to your understanding of the action and its significance. It should provide
significant insight into what has made/makes you who you are by including detailed descriptions of
places and events while explaining the significance of these events to the formation of your own
beliefs and behaviors.
3. Your essay should be written with an audience in mind: it should be organized in such a way
that a reader can follow your thinking and reasoning from paragraph to paragraph and within each
paragraph. This organization should lead your reader to your primary insight or ultimate point in a
clear manner; in other words, your primary insight should help structure your paper.
4. Your essay needs to include and integrate at least one multimodal element. You could include
pictures, sounds, or even hyperlinks to other resources, but you must make sure that your reader
understands why you are including these elements and why including them enriches your piece of
writing. Consider what media beyond text might reinforce your main idea to readers, convey in
another way the significance of your autoethnography, and/or appeal to your readers from a
different register.
5. Your completed essay should have a title and be at least 1200-‐1500 words in length.
Project Submission
● Rough Draft: Your rough draft will be submitted for peer review and to your e-‐portfolio.
● Revised Draft: Your revised draft should be uploaded to your e-‐portfolio.
Tips:
● Get started early.
● Review this week’s materials and discussions.
● Set a writing/research schedule and stick to it.
Background and Overview
So far in our course, you have started to see that you belong to a set of communities, and these
communities—their rituals, practices, and various phenomena—are closely tied to your identity. This
relationship naturally raises various questions: How do you experience your community? What
communal rituals, practices, traditions, behaviors, and/or objects have influenced your
understanding of your identity? What does it mean to define your identity through your relationship
to these phenomena?
To explore these questions and others related to them, you will compose your first major writing
assignment—an autoethnography. To write this autoethnography, you will select a specific habit,
ritual, or behavior (what we are calling a “cultural phenomenon”) you practice and investigate it.
Doing so will help you discover what this activity says about you, your personal experiences, and
the ways those personal experiences connect to the experiences of others.
The autoethnography is both an easy and a difficult form of writing. It is easy because, we are
writing about what we know: ourselves. It is difficult because we must communicate the significance
of our experience to our audience, making a connection between our own experiences and those of our
readers. We must confront the hard truth that an event is not significant just because “it happened
to me.” The event must offer some take-‐away value, and the writer who writes about the event must
be able to answer the question “so what?” The answer to this question is the primary insight of the
autoethnography, or the ultimate point that you are trying to make. Autoethnographies are not just
chronological narrations of events; they communicate the event’s meaning and leave readers with a
dominant impression of what it might have been like to experience it themselves.
For example, you might explore
● your methods of transportation. Do you walk, ride a bike, drive, or take a train to
work/school? Why? What might your routine say about your identity or culture?
● your preferences for certain types of food. What do your choices say about your beliefs?
● your reading habits. Do you read the newspaper over coffee? Do you read before bed? What do
you read? Why? What might these habits convey about your age, class, or social group?
Requirements and Deliverables
1. In your essay, you should select one habit, ritual, practice, or behavior and reflect upon
this “phenomenon,” articulating why and how it has been significant for you. How have you been
shaped as a person within your larger community by this activity?
2. Whatever your topic habit, ritual, practice, or behavior, your essay should be informed by
close
observation and provide a level of detail through example, anecdote, and explanation, which enables
a reader to relate to your understanding of the action and its significance. It should provide
significant insight into what has made/makes you who you are by including detailed descriptions of
places and events while explaining the significance of these events to the formation of your own
beliefs and behaviors.
3. Your essay should be written with an audience in mind: it should be organized in such a way
that a reader can follow your thinking and reasoning from paragraph to paragraph and within each
paragraph. This organization should lead your reader to your primary insight or ultimate point in a
clear manner; in other words, your primary insight should help structure your paper.
4. Your essay needs to include and integrate at least one multimodal element. You could include
pictures, sounds, or even hyperlinks to other resources, but you must make sure that your reader
understands why you are including these elements and why including them enriches your piece of
writing. Consider what media beyond text might reinforce your main idea to readers, convey in
another way the significance of your autoethnography, and/or appeal to your readers from a
different register.
5. Your completed essay should have a title and be at least 1200-‐1500 words in length.
Project Submission
● Rough Draft: Your rough draft will be submitted for peer review and to your e-‐portfolio.
● Revised Draft: Your revised draft should be uploaded to your e-‐portfolio.
Tips:
● Get started early.
● Review this week’s materials and discussions.
● Set a writing/research schedule and stick to it.