Speech Ethics
Listening Skills
Researching Your Speech
Organizing Your Speech
Language and Style
100

This is a set of rules and values shared by a group to guide, conduct, and distinguish between right and wrong. 

What is Ethics

100

This is passively receiving messages without trying to interpret or understand them.  

What is Hearing

100

This is the information gathered from credible research sources that helps a speaker support his or her claims.

What is Evidence

100

This is the part where you present your main points and support them with other materials

What is the Body

100

This requires consideration of audience, occasion, and nature of one's message when choosing language for a speech.

What is Word Choice or Diction

200

This is the adoption of a code of behavior to which a person adheres in all circumstances.

What is Ethical Absolutism

200

This is actively receiving and processing messages to understand their meaning and retain their content. 

What is Listening

200

This is an audience's perception that a speaker is well prepared and qualified to speak on his or her topic.

What is Credibility

200

THis is a few ideas most important for the listeners' to remember.

What is Main Points

200

This meaning of a word is its exact, literal dictionary definition.

What is Denotative Meaning

300
This is the belief that proper ethical behavior and can be informed by a person's circumstances, especially if those circumstances are extreme or unusual.  

What is Situational Ethics

300

This is actively thinking about the verbal and nonverbal components of a message that one is receiving.  

What is Processing

300

This is a strategy for finding and keeping track of information in books, periodicals, websites, and other sources a speaker might use to prepare a presentation. 

What is a Research Plan

300

This is materials designed to prove or substantiate your main points.

What is Supporting Points

300

This meaning of a word is an association that comes to mind when people hear or read the word.  

What is Connotative Meaning

400

This is the recognition that ideas about ethical behavior sometimes differ from society to society.

What is Culturally Relative

400

This is the ability to remember what one has heard.  

What is Retention

400

This is words or terms related to a topic, including synonyms of those words. 

What is Keywords

400

This is a means of creating a hierarchy of points and their supporting materials in your speech.

What is Subordination

400

This is specialized or technical words or phrases familiar only to people in a specific field or group.

What is Jargon

500

This is a speech that incorporates ethical decision making, following guidelines to tell the truth, and avoids misleading the audience.  

What is Ethical Speech

500

This is failing to pay attention to what one is hearing, and thus failing to process, understand, and retain the message.  

What is Non Listening

500

This is a quality of credible sources by which they avoid bias; that is, prejudice or partisanship. 

What is Objectivity

500

This is the supporting materials used to develop a main point.  

What is Subpoints

500

This type of word is specific and suggest exactly what you mean.  

What is a Concrete Word

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