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Verbal and Nonverbal Communication
When we speak with other people face-to-face the nonverbal signals we give—our facial expressions, hand gestures, body movements, and tone of voice—often communicate as much as, or more than, the words we utter. When our nonverbal signals, which we often produce unconsciously, agree with our verbal message, the verbal message is enhanced and supported, made more convincing. But when they conflict with the verbal message, we may be communicating an entirely different and more accurate message than what we intend.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-17 | bishoy | 55.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-07-05 | bijan54 | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user bishoy
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- TPO12-Q2: Some people believe it’s essential for a person’s education to learn to play a musical instrument. Others don’t believe music education is important. Which view do you agree with? 70
- Some universities give financial aid in the form of grants, which don’t have to be paid back, whereas others provide financial assistance in the form of loans, which must be paid back. Which option do you think is better and why? Support your decision w 66
- Using the points and examples from the lecture, explain two ways that advertising can negatively affect the environment. (TPO 48 - Question 6) 85
- Using the example of the thunder bird, explain a possible effect of a major climate change. 90
- TPO 15 - Question 3University Should Pave Running TrailsThe university has about three miles of unpaved dirt running trails that pass through the forest near campus. I think these trails should be paved with cement. One reason for paving the trails would 90
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 682.0 592.248995984 115% => OK
No of words: 170.0 155.574297189 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.01176470588 3.80514564318 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.61087313685 3.525876923 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.97926972657 1.79077849142 111% => OK
Unique words: 104.0 93.7148594378 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.611764705882 0.604071249207 101% => OK
Syllable count: 216.0 185.844578313 116% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0527546865395 0.0650381309087 81% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 4.35341365462 92% => OK
Average paragraph length: 42.5 68.503853103 62% => OK
STD paragraph length: 14.0267601391 21.3332995233 66% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 15.145 25.9943957902 58% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 5.48449860972 7.84667146824 70% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 24.0 42.0642570281 57% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 7.08333333333 4.02192344571 176% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.48419446126 3.1217529195 176% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.45333333333 1.45093177766 169% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 2.06999127749 0.99851816184 207% => The duration of acoustic sentences changes so often.
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 22.0 39.0421686747 56% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.43 7.12997991968 62% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.201363636364 0.185688545393 108% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.152830727947 0.155154303396 99% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 51.94 47.1480722892 110% => OK
Average word duration: 0.305529411765 0.305395592593 100% => OK
STD word duration: 0.183614083033 0.189427763521 97% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 10.0 7.94979919679 126% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 7.77 6.2937751004 123% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.24 3.39508032129 66% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.58 59.7592369478 101% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.00966666667 0.995987282463 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.363156157148 0.656000678711 55% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.80620666887 2.60215298798 108% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.71673819742 1.56821927147 109% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.00231035811 1.99336655568 100% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.406552417647 0.317803793328 128% => OK
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.