Subject
Grade
Curricular Competency Group
Curricular Competency
Assess and refine oral and other texts to improve clarity and impact
Elaboration
- creatively and critically manipulating language for a desired effect
- using techniques such as adjusting diction and form according to audience needs and preferences, using verbs effectively, using repetition and substitution for effect, maintaining parallelism, adding modifiers, and varying sentence types
- for oral texts, consciously using emotion, pauses, inflection, silence, and emphasis
- rehearsing with the help of a constructively critical listener, a mirror, and/or audiovisual recording
keywords
refine oral and other texts to improve clarity and impact