COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES

CODE SWITCHING

• Change the way you act, speak, or write depending where you are and who you are with
• Consider audience and purpose
• Formal VS. Informal
• Professional VS. Personal
• School VS. Home

VOICE

• Person behind the work/writing
• Writer's personality and perspective
• Authentic, original, dynamic

ISSUING A CHALLENGE OR CALL TO ACTION

• If you want someone to do something, ask!
• Challenge people!
• Call them to action!
• Be clear and specific about your request!

THANK YOU STATEMENT

• People like to be thanked
• People like to feel appreciated!
• Thanked people!
• Thanked you statement work well in speech conclusion

PERSONAL REFERENCE

• People are interested in other people!
• Let them get to know you!
• Tell them about yourself!

FACT AND STATS

• Fact-Validate what you say or write
• Stats=Statists
• Give your audience the numbers!

USING SUSPENSE

• Give hint and clues, but all info...
• Answer throughout....
• Tease audience...
• Be sure to give all info by the end...
• Cliffhanger/trailer

VISUAL AIDS

• Eye catchers focus audience
• V.A.s enliven, enhance, emphasize!
• Make V.A.s big and bold, so people can see
• Don't pass V.A.s around

MOTTO AND MANTRAS

• Mottos and mantras are words to live by
• Adoge=wise sayings; proverbs
• Mottos and mantras are good to have, they keep us focused!

ASKING Questions

• Get audience thinking
• Engage people
• If appropriate, let audience answer
• Rhetorical ?'s=need not answer them because it is implied or obvious

REFERENCE TO AN OCCASION EVENT, OR TIME

• Occasion:special ones, like holiday and birthdays
• Event:sporting, concerts,parties,plays,festival
• Time:"remember the time..." Personal or historical

USING QUOTATION

• Quote the word of other word for word, and use quotation marks..."
• He/she said "......"
• Quotes experts,friends,family,family,characters,etc.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

• Get familiar with the subject or topic
• Acquire knowledge
• What the history?
• The scoop?
• The 411? The info?
• Prior knowledge

USING STORIES

• Everyone loves a good story, so tell one!
• Some long and detailed...
• Some short and sweet
• Anecdotes are tid bits

SUMMARIZING MAIN PIONTS

• Essential facts
• Major points
• Paragraph=topics or clincher sentence
• 5 p essay= thesis statement or restaterent
• Don't be redundant