In this assignment, you will take a quiz to determine your public speaking anxiety level. After you complete the assessment, you will create an essay in APA format discussing your results. You will use Chapter 1 along with an outside scholarly source to discuss your public speaking anxiety results.
Please follow the instructions below for details.
Public Speaking Anxiety Assessment
Please click on the link to take the Personal Report of Public Speaking Anxiety (PRPSA) Assessment
http://ibloviate.org/index.php?p=prpsa-survey
At the end of your assessment, you will be given a score. Please keep this score as you will need it for this (as well as another) assignment. After getting your score please create a document that answers the following questions:
- What was your PRPSA score?
- Do you feel that your score was representative of your level of public speaking anxiety? Why or why not?
- What background do you have in terms of speaking in public? Do you feel like your background has impacted your PRPSA score?
- Based on Chapter 1 in your text and an outside source, what can you do to manage speaking anxiety or nervousness? Please provide at least one example from the text. (If you do not have any nervousness please provide an example of what someone else could use based on the textbook).
Reminder of Scores and Interpretation
- For people with scores between 34 and 84 on the PRPSA, very few public speaking situations would produce anxiety.
- Scores between 85 and 92 indicate a moderately low level of anxiety about public speaking. While some public speaking situations would be likely to arouse anxiety in people with such scores, most situations would not be anxiety arousing.
- Scores that range between 111 and 119 suggests a moderately high level of anxiety about public speaking. People with such scores will tend to avoid public speaking because it usually arouses a fairly high level of anxiety. While some public speaking situations may not cause too much of a problem, most will be problematic.
- Scores between 120 and 170 indicate a very high level of anxiety about public speaking. People with scores in this range have very high anxiety in most, if not all, public speaking situations and are likely to go to considerable lengths to avoid them. It is unlikely that they can become successful public speakers unless they overcome or significantly reduce their anxiety.
Requirements:
- For examples of APA style papers and Reference lists, click on the Library link inside the Student Resources icon in the Canvas Global Navigation to the left of this page.
- When you get to the Library Home Page, click the Citation Guides link on the left side of that page.
Look for APA format. - You do not need to include a title page for this short essay.
- You can center a title at the top of the first essay page and center the word count under the title.
- Submit two files: One for the essay and one for the Reference list.
- Students are required to answer all of the questions and provide examples.
- The minimum word count for this assignment is 500 words.
- Students must cite the textbook within their answers. You will be referring back to your PRPSA results later in the semester so please keep a copy of this assignment for reflection. Keeping a screenshot of your results is encouraged.
The Essay
- You need to add one scholarly source to your essay.
- The outside source can be a book, ebook, or journal article.
- These items can be accessed through our FSW online library.
- Here is a link to another example of a scholarly FSW database source (Links to an external site.).
- Follow the rubric at the bottom of the page for additional guidelines.
The Reference Page
- Add an APA Reference list that includes the book and the outside article.
- The reference list does not count in the word count.
Note: Please refer to the rubric below for exact scoring information.
Rubric:
- You will find the rubric at the top right of this page inside a drop-down box.
- Study the rubric before attempting the assignment.
- The rubric addresses the (1) word count of the assignment, (2) the quality of writing, (3) the quality of the sources, and (4) timeliness of the essay.