Importance of Speech Communication

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Allison A. Danao September 12, 2012 2011 – 55628 SPCM 102 Reflection Paper I recall myself describing SPCM 102 as a supplementary course which will just teach me how to clearly pronounce things, how to get my voice to sound like those in the English movies, and feel like a very sophisticated ‘konyo’ person amidst a crowd of ‘common people’ – more like an elite in a crowd of squatters. A very shallow description I might say, but that was before I took up the course. In a sense, that perception has indeed some hint of truth in it, especially in the terms ‘elite in a group of squatters’. Now that the semester is nearing its end, and this course is coming to a close, I found myself as an elite already but in a more profound way. First, I feel like elite because I had the opportunity to learn what I learned here in SPCM. To realize that speech communication is not all about saying things sophistically, or speaking with an American-British accent, but as a venue for expressing your thoughts, your ideas, yourself to the outside world, and to feel like a knowledgeable speaker communicating with sense; having mastered the nature of sounds and the art of producing it. Somehow I realized that when one speaks eloquently, one gains the respect of the people. I am not stereotyping the squatters or anything when I put them in analogy but merely just to emphasize the degree of awareness I obtained by taking up this course. Indeed, SPCM 102 is not just a supplementary course, because it taught me more than what I had in store for myself. No greater challenge concerns me than sharing what I learned to other people who overlook the importance of speech improvement.
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