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The nervousness one experiences when one knows one has to communicate publicly to an audience.
What is Public Speaking Anxiety?
100
A style of public speaking that is spontaneous, without any warning or preparation.
What is impromptu speaking?
100
A technique for making brief eye contact with almost everyone in an audience by moving one’s eyes from one person or section of people to another.
What is scanning?
100
A form of public speaking in which a speech is committed to memory.
What is oratory?
100
The correct formation of word sounds.
What is pronunciation?
200
A statement that conveys the central idea or core assumption about the speaker’s topic.
What is thesis statement?
200
DOUBLE JEAOPARDY** 1. A way of speaking in which the speaker does not vary his or her vocal pitch. 2. Omitting certain sounds in a word, running words together, or speaking so softly that listeners can hardly hear.
1. What is monotone? 2. What is mumbling?
200
Sameness, as applied to a public speaker and his or her audience. (seeking common ground)
What is homogeny?
200
A statement that expresses both the topic and general speech purpose in action form and in terms of the specific objectives the speaker hopes to achieve with his or her presentation.
What is specific purpose statement?
200
The clarity and forcefulness with which sounds are made, regardless of whether they are pronounced correctly.
What is articulation?
300
**TRIPLE JEOPARDY** 1. To solicit answers to a question or series of questions related to one’s speech topic from a broad range of individuals. 2. Information provided in numerical form. 3. Brief, personal stories that have a point or punch line.
1. What is survey? 2. What is statistics? 3. What is anecdotes?
300
A technique for limiting and controlling body movements during speech delivery by keeping the legs firmly set apart at a shoulder width distance.
What is planting?
300
Fear or anxiety associated with communication, which is often a common barrier to effective delivery.
What is communication apprehension?
300
The systematic study of the quantifiable characteristics of a large group.
What is demographics?
300
**DOUBLE JEOPARDY** 1. The crime of presenting someone else’s words, ideas, or intellectual property as one’s own, intentionally or unintentionally. 2. The quality, authority, and reliability of a source of information.
1. What is plagiarism? 2. What is credibility?
400
Spending time imagining positive scenarios and personal success in order to reduce negative thoughts and their accompanying anxiety.
What is performance visualization?
400
**DOUBLE JEOPARDY** 1. The opinion of a nonexpert who has personal experience of or has witnessed an event related to the speaker’s topic. 2. The opinion or judgment of an expert, a professional in his or her field.
1. What is lay testimony? 2. What is expert testimony?
400
A style of public speaking that involves delivery with little or no notes, but for which the speaker carefully prepares in advance.
What is extemporaneous speaking?
400
**DOUBLE JEOPARDY** 1. A technique for identifying potential speech topics whereby the writer begins with a core idea and branches out into a web of related thoughts and ideas. 2. A process that entails focusing on a general area of interest, amassing information, thinking creatively, and considering problems and solutions related to the topic.
1. What is clustering? 2. What is brainstorming?
400
Hard numbers and facts that are particularly useful for public speeches on medicine, health, media, or the environment.
What is scientific research findings?
500
A list of resources the speaker has consulted, to which he or she can refer on note cards.
What is running bibliography?
500
**DOUBLE JEOPARDY** 1. A program that indexes Web content and searches all over the Web for documents containing specific keywords that the researcher has chosen. 2. A search engine that scans multiple search engines simultaneously
1. What is search engine? 2. What is a metasearch engine?
500
A highly systematic process of getting to know one’s listeners relative to the topic and speech occasion.
What is audience analysis?
500
A type of secondary resource that is created and maintained by people rather than automatically by computers; guides visitors to the main page of a Web site organized within a wider subject category.
What is directory?
500
A collection of databases and information sites arranged by subject, generally reviewed and recommended by experts (usually librarians).
What is library gateway?
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