Curricular Competency Group
Curricular Competency
Assess and refine oral and other texts to improve clarity, effectiveness, and impact
Elaboration
- creatively and critically manipulating language for a desired effect
- consciously and purposefully making intentional stylistic choices (e.g., using sentence fragments or inverted syntax for emphasis or impact)
- 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, varying sentence types
- using strategies associated with oral texts, such as the conscious use of 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, effectiveness, and impact