Studying the Audience
These questions require responses at fixed intervals along a scale of answers?
The ability to think clearly and systematically about ideas, evaluating how they are connected, judging the strength of evidence, and distinguishing between facts and opinions.
What is Critical Thinking?
It's what MLA stands for.
What is Modern Language Association?
It is the act of forming conclusions based on available evidence.
What is Reasoning?
It is how the audience judges whether a speaker is qualified and trustworthy on a topic.
What is Credibility?
These questions offer a fixed choice between two or more responses?
What is fixed-alternative questions?
Keeping the audience foremost in mind at every step of speech preparation and presentation.
What is Audience Centeredness?
It's what APA stands for.
What is American Psychological Association?
Reasoning that involves using particular examples or facts to arrive at a broader generalization.
What is Reasoning from specific instances?
It is the level of trust a speaker has before beginning to speak.
What is initial Credibility?
Keeping the audience foremost in mind at every step of speech preparation and presentation.
What is Audience-Centeredness?
"I wore my lucky hoodie during my last three exams and got A’s. I didn’t wear it this time, so that’s why I failed the test."
a. invalid analogy
b. false cause
c. appeal to tradition
d. slippery slope
What is False Cause?
An organization that, in the absence of a clearly identified author, is responsible for the content of a document on the Internet.
What is Sponsoring Organization?
It starts with a general rule and applying it to reach a specific conclusion.
What is Reasoning from principle?
The trust a speaker builds through their words and actions during the speech.
What is Derived Credibility?
It means figuring out the broad demographic traits of your audience such as such as age; religion; racial, ethnic, and cultural background; gender identity and sexual orientation, group membership, etc and assessing how much those traits matter in a given speaking context.
What is Demographic audience analysis?
Aristotle used this word to refer to emotional appeal.
What is Pathos?
An early-stage list of sources gathered during research that appear likely to provide useful information for a speech topic.
What is Preliminary Bibliography?
"Three restaurants from this chain had great service, so the chain is excellent”...This is an example of this type of reasoning.
What is reasoning from specific instances?
A speaker’s credibility is most importantly affected by how the audience perceives the speaker’s:
a. academic background and notoriety.
b. reputation and logical thinking.
c. competence and character.
d. popularity and judgment.
What is Competence and Character?
It generally expands on demographic audience analysis by focusing on characteristics of the audience that are specific to the particular speaking context, such as size, physical setting and the disposition of the audience toward the topic, the speaker, and the occasion.
What is Situational Audience Analysis?
Aristotle used this word to refer to a speaker's logical appeal.
What is logos?
These are the 5 sources for speech research in the library.
What is librarians, the catalogue, reference works, newspaper databases, and academic databases.
“All students must submit assignments on time; Maria is a student; therefore…” this is an example of this type of reasoning."
What is Reasoning from Principle?
It is the audience’s perception of the speaker’s trustworthiness by the end of the speech.
What is Terminal Credibility?