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27: Real Talking Tips - Word Emphasis - Put a DOT on that!

Real Talking Tips with Elaine A. Clark

Release Date: 08/31/2021

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Real Talking Tips with Elaine A. Clark

Hello, I’m and welcome to the final episode of season 1. S1 Ep 52 Real Talking Tips is YOUR time to assess what you learned in each of these 52 speech communication micro learning lessons. As you listen, be sure to rate yourself on all 52 micro-learning lessons on a scale of 1-5 with 5 being the highest score. Then tally your score. Your Real Talking Tips speech communication score should fall somewhere between 52 (lowest) and 260 (highest).  The score you give yourself should be a pretty good indicator of your perceived speaking skills and the areas that need more practice. Don’t...

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Real Talking Tips with Elaine A. Clark

Successful speech communication is easily received by the listener and engages the audience's attention. - YOU have the ability to make people feel and take action. - You have the choice to offer a suggestion rather than a demand. - You have the ability to guide the listener into accepting and adopting your message as their own. That’s the power of words, how you deliver the message, and own the results as a voice actor, podcaster, public speaker, sales person, or presenter. Episode 51 is a review of the topics we worked on in Real Talking Tips season 1 and in my Elaine A. Clark books,...

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Real Talking Tips with Elaine A. Clark

The purpose of a story arc is to ENGAGE the audience's attention and effect a CHANGE. A story arc is needed in every speech, presentation, audio recording, and series episode. For the story to go somewhere, change must occur from the beginning of the speech, to the end of the message, and beyond the spoken words. 'Flat lining a message' occurs when a speaker fails to take the audience on a journey. Story arcs can be from avoidance to acceptance, confusion to understanding, boredom to action, disconnection to support, disappointment to success, etc. The story arc style can be simple, complex,...

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Real Talking Tips with Elaine A. Clark

Adding EMOTION when we speak adds depth, realism, and opinion. It's the final E in the M-I-N-E acronym.

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Real Talking Tips with Elaine A. Clark

The NEED of each speaker’s message should remain constant and never change. A speaker's 1-2 word NEED defines the speaker’s through line and purpose.

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Real Talking Tips with Elaine A. Clark

INTENTIONS are the ACTIONS speakers need to “win”. Intentions in this 2nd of 4 Elaine A. Clark - Making It M.I.N.E.® series on how to add depth and subtext to speech, presentations, podcasts, and voice-over recordings.

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Real Talking Tips with Elaine A. Clark

The letters in the Elaine A. Clark - M.I.N.E.® performance system stand for Motivation, Intentions, Need, and Emotions. MOTIVATION kicks off this 4-part series.

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Real Talking Tips 45 completes the 4-part Power of Persuasion series. In episodes 42-44, we constructed the 3 pillars of persuasion: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos.

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PATHOS completes the rhetorical triangle as the emotional addition to the authoritative ETHOS and logical LOGOS discussed in Real Talking Tips episodes 42-43.

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First there was Ethos. Now there's LOGOS, the second rhetorical appeal in this 4-part Real Talking Tips - Power of Persuasion series. Logos is the very heart and soul of the writer’s and speaker’s message. Logos provides facts, price, size, reasoning, numbers, dates, times, percentages, and function. Logos supports the writer's and speaker's argument with research, evidence, and proof in order to make a particular claim. Therefore, logos = logic = uniqueness.

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Congratulations! Episode 27 marks the halfway point in this Real Talking Tips podcast and Elaine Clark’s top 52 public speaking lessons and voice-over tips. This episode begins a new speech communication mini-series: 11 ways to focus the voice and body to create Word Emphasis. The Word Emphasis chart uses a symbol to describe movements and gestures that draw unique focus to a word or phrase. These include a dot, caret up, caret down, wiggle, stretch, parenthetical, dip down, singsong, hook, arrow up, arrow down, shifts, and transitions.

We’ll start with the dot: a firm, crisply stated word spoken in a short, staccato manner. Additional information, video, and activities about how to use the Word Emphasis chart are found in the Elaine Clark app: Adding Melody To Your Voice. The Word Emphasis chart is also written about in the Elaine A. Clark books: There's Money Where Your Mouth Is and Voice-Overs For Podcasting.