1. My first question revolves around my Communication (public speaking) class. My question is, what is the role and importance of public speaking in today's job market?
2. Some of the main intermediate questions that I came up with were:
-Do public speaking skills give an employee or potential employee an advantage in the job market?
-How good must these skills be in order to be sufficient?
-What defines good public speaking skills?
-Who set the standards of what good/bad public speaking skills are?
-Are they right, if so why?
-Based on what did they make their judgments on what is good and bad in terms of public speaking?
My list of questions actually continues but this is a sufficient snapshot of where I went with this topic. The other questions get really off topic. It is actually really interesting to see how much deeper you can go on a subject/question.
3. In the different stages I took a few key approaches. First off I made sure that I was very particular and careful with my thoughts/concepts/research etc. I wanted to ask key questions that were relevant and would better explain my main question. Also, asking these other questions will help me understand more about the topic. For all of them my strategy was the same, ask a critical question and continue off of it with logic. It lead me to what I believed to be good questions.
4. I would say that my final question is complex. It requires a lot of research and quite honestly a large part of the answer is subjective with a fair amount of opinion. I probably could continue further but it delves to deep (I believe).
5. Another question that would help me with my exploration would be:
-Do you need to completely follow the 'rules' to be a good public speaker, or could you potentially be unorthodox with your speaking and still be considered good?
This is one example of another question I could ask. It seems to me (at least on this topic) the answers to the questions will be more subjective and opinionated as I continue to go deeper into questioning. It is really interesting to consider all of these different factors and to eventually see where it will take me!
LIBY 1210 Daniel O'Brien
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Great question!
I also like the way you question terms like "good" and "bad," subjective words in themselves.
You write: "a large part of the answer is subjective with a fair amount of opinion. I probably could continue further but it delves too deep (I believe)." Can you delve too deeply? Why do you think that? What is stopping you from going to that level?
It is very interesting to see where a line of questioning can take you and while you are right in saying that some questions will take you "off topic," those questions can be saved for a future exploration down a new line of thought.
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