Question & Answer

There are three main principles of an effective communication. These include General communication, interpersonal communication and written communication. General communication is the ability to listen and understand and then apply this to your own experiences. General communication is also the ability to explain what you want to say and to do so clearly. Interpersonal communication is the skills we use when talking to each. This includes talking in a polite manner and speaking clearly so that the other person can understand. This is face to face communication with one or more people. Written communication is the ability to be able to write clearly and effectively. Questions and answers a key part to any speech. Questions can be used to engage your audience and to see if they agree with you. Some times it can be hard to get answers off them if they are nervous or awkward. But usually there will be someone in the audience willing to answer you. There are two types of questions usually used in a speech. Open and closed question. Open questions usually spark a debate and rarely have a right or wrong answer. Closed questions have a right and a wrong answer which can usually be picked from two choices. Open questions are good for developing a conversation or finding out more detail, these are questions such as ‘What else do we need to do’ or ‘What did you do on the week end’. Closed questions are good for testing someone's understanding of what you're trying to teach them. It can also be used to conclude a discussion or making a decision. To over come any issue with questions and answers you could start trying to answer rhetorical or simple questions that some people wouldn't think to ask more may be too embarrassed to ask about.