Ch. 1
Every person has one of these: a unique view of the world shaped by our life history.
Frame of Reference.
This is when we plagiarize by taking the ENTIRE work of someone else and passing it as our own.
Global Plagiarism
When starting to improve our listening, we first have to:
take listening seriously.
"To inform my audience about the four major elements of axe throwing" is an example of what?
Specific purpose statement.
When making up an audience-analysis questionnaire, you should use __________ questions to get at the strength of a respondent's attitudes or feelings.
Scale question.
A tendency of a speaker to see their own view of the world as "right" or "natural".
Ethnocentrism
For his persuasive speech, Jim tried to inform his audience on how to score free concert tickets by tricking employees. This violates which principle of ethical speech.
Make sure goals are ethically sound!
This is a type of listening design to provide emotional support
empathic listening.
Why is this a bad specific purpose statement?
"To inform my audience about astronomy"
It's too broad!
This type of question gives your audience the most freedom in answering:
Open-ended question.
This refers to the physical means by which we send a message.
Channel
This type of plagiarism happens when a speaker takes ideas from multiple sources and combines them into one speech: presenting these ideas as his/her own.
patchwork plagiarism.
People spend more time doing this than any other type of communicative behavior (even speaking!).
Listening.
Persuade.
This type of question only provides a few responses like, "yes", "no", or "I'm not sure".
Closed-ended question.
This speech anxiety reduction strategy invites us to focus on the positive aspects of our speech.
Power of visualization.
What's a good way to keep from plagiarizing?
Taking notes and beginning research well in advance.
Why is this a bad specific purpose statement?
"To inform my audience about astronomy"
It's too broad!
Why is this a bad specific purpose statement?
"What should we do about global warming?"
It's phrased as a question, not a statement.
A landlord with a bad reputation among students for her high rent, deceptive advertising, and refusal to return security deposits is speaking to a campus group about how the city's new zoning law will affect students. The most important factor the landlord should consider in her situational audience analysis is probably her listeners'
Disposition toward the speaker.
Alex worries that his audience will see his hand tremble and his audience will think he's anxious. This thinking violates which principle of speech anxiety reduction.
Knowing most nervousness is NOT visible.
Sophia's biology teacher had an unfamiliar accent. This lead her to think, "I won't learn anything from her". What type of unethical listening does this illustrate?
Avoid prejudging the speaker.
Lucy skipped lunch before her afternoon chemistry class. As the professor continued to lecture, her stomach began to rumble and eventually she stopped listening and began thinking about lunch. What type of listening barrier did she encounter?
Giving in to physical distractions.
A wedding toast would be a speech designed to
Entertain.
You are giving a speech on a community building project to a local service organization at its monthly luncheon. Dessert dishes are being cleared away as you walk into the overcrowded, overheated room. The most important situational factor to consider when adapting to your audience would probably be the
Physical setting (environment) of the speech.