Many topics have been covered through this semester of Com 101 dealing with public speaking. Some of the topics include: speech anxiety, plagiarism, and abusive language. All three of those topics can relate to The Office in one or more ways. The first topic, speech anxiety can be caused by more than one reason. One reason speech anxiety can be caused is by a bad experience in front of a group of people. Another way speech anxiety is caused is by not being positive to oneself. In The Office, Dwight Schrute tells a story. His story involved himself in front of a group of people at a spelling bee. Dwight was in the final round and misspelled the word “failure”. He never let that moment go, and now when it comes to being in front of a group of people, he gets speech anxiety. Another reason mentioned before that causes speech anxiety is not being positive to oneself. There is a scene shortly after the spelling bee story that Dwight says to Michael, “I can’t do this.” Michael then replies with, “That’s because you’re incapable of doing it. Because you don’t know how to. Because you have no skills.” Michael’s response to Dwight only made Dwight’s speech anxiety worse because it is not helping Dwight stay positive. On the other hand, Jim Halpert tries to motivate Dwight saying that he majored in public speaking, and told him …show more content…
One type of plagiarism that was in The Office is patchwork plagiarism. Patchwork plagiarism is when a person takes someone else’s work and alters some of the words make it sound like it is the person’s original work. Jim Halpert print out a speech from Benito Mussolini’s and “wrote up a few talking points” from Mussolini’s speech for Dwight to say in his speech. If Dwight used any of the “talking points” given to him from Jim, that would be patchwork plagiarism, because Jim took those points from Mussolini’s