From Ch. 1: What is the process of transferring information and meaning between senders and receivers?
What is communication?
100
Ch. 4: The three primary steps involved in preparing a business message.
What is planning, writing, and completing?
100
It contains a combination of text, graphics, photographs, audio, animation, video, and interactivity (such as hyperlinks to other sites.)
What is a multimedia document?
100
Well-designed _____ slides help viewers understand, process, and remember the speaker's message.
What are free-form slides?
100
H-4. The woman's book. "The woman's" is an example of a
What is possessive noun?
200
From Ch. 2: These technologies enable realistic conferences in which participants thousands of miles apart almost seem to be in the same room.
What is telepresence?
200
Ch. 5: In the sentence, "The dog ate the bone", the subject performs the action. (Subject, verb, object). It is an example of this type of voice.
What is active voice?
200
"Repeat again" is an example of...
What is redundancy?
200
Use presentation software wisely to avoid....
What is death by powerpoint?
200
Section 1.3.4. Subject-Verb Agreement
They are going to write to you.
This is an example of _____-person _____.
Third-person plural.
300
Ch. 3: In these cultures, people rely more on explicit verbal communication to convey meaning.
What is low-context culture?
300
Ch. 4: When your audience is likely to have a skeptical or even hostile reaction to your main idea, you should generally use...
What is the indirect approach?
300
"I enjoy running (yeah right), swimming, and to sleep."
Edit this sentence for parallelism.
What is sleeping? Or, I enjoy running, swimming, and sleeping.
300
With ____, you can make key ponts appear one at a time rather than having all of them appear on a slide at once, thereby making it easier for you and the audience to focus on each new message point.
What are slide builds?
300
1.7.7. Parallelism.
Smith is trying to get in shape by exercising, eating healthy foods, and by lifting weights.
In this sentence, the _________ is/are not parallel
prepositional phrase
400
Ch. 3: Cultures may have differing attitudes toward greeting gestures, personal space, touching, facial expression, eye contact, posture, and formality. These are examples of _____ differences between cultures.
What is nonverbal?
400
Ch. 5: You are a used car salesman. However, your advertisements state that you sell "pre-owned" vehicles. The word "pre-owned", because it sounds nicer than "used", is an example of a(n)...
What is euphemism?
400
"Mr. Smith's employment record seems to show that he may be capable of handling the position." This is an example of a _____ sentence.
What is a hedging sentence?
P.S. Overqualifying sentences. Sometimes ok, but most of the time makes the speaker seem unsure. Also, it's wordy.
"Mr. Smith's employment record shows that he is capable of handling the position."
400
These help your audience keep track of what you've covered already and what you plan to cover next.
What are navigation slides?
400
Punctuation.
My favorite movie is "O Brother, Where Art Thou"?
What is wrong with the punctuation in this sentence?
What is the question mark?
500
Ch. 3: Let's say a businessman/woman relies primarily on nonverbal actions and environmental setting when communicating with others. This person is most likely from this type of culture.
What is high-context culture?
500
Ch. 5: Motivation, website, and profits. Which one of these words is a concrete word?
What is website?
500
Ch. 5: "Verification of the shipments occurs weekly." This sentence contains what kind of verb?
What is a camouflaged verb?
P.S. "Verify" (verb) has been changed to a noun "verification". Should say "We verify shipments weekly."
500
Avoid the temptation to create _______, slides that are so packed with information that they can be read as standalone documents.
What are "slideuments"?
500
It is used in the sentence,
"I asked that Fred be present at the meeting.",
to express the suggestion or request.