This type of audience analysis looks at attributes like age, race, gender and cultural background.
What are demographics?
100
This type of informative speech describes something that is visible, tangible, and stable.
What is a speech about objects?
100
To gain audience attention, provide the speech topic, preview main points and establish credibility.
What are the objectives of a speech introduction?
100
This type of support material should be used to quantify ideas.
What is statistics?
100
Questions of what is moral/immoral, fair/unfair, just/unjust, honest/dishonest.
What is ethics?
200
This means that audiences pay attention to things that relate to or impact their values, beliefs and well-being.
What is egocentrism?
200
This type of informative speech explains how something is made, how it is done or how it works.
What is a speech about processes?
200
To signal the end of the speech and reinforce audience understanding of the central idea.
What is the objective of a speech conclusion?
200
Brief, extended or hypothetical.
What are the three types of examples?
200
Taking writing or concepts from another person and representing them as your own.
What is plagiarism?
300
This type of analysis looks at the size of the audience and physical setting for the speech.
What is situational audience analysis?
300
This type of informative speech deals with any kind of happening or occurrence.
What is a speech about an event?
300
Transitions, internal preview, internal summary and signposts.
What are connectives?
300
This type of support material is an excellent way to lend credibility to your speech.
What is expert testimony?
300
This involves weighing a potential course of action against a set of ethical standards or guidelines.
What are ethical decisions?
400
This type of audience feedback happens even in a silent room.
What is nonverbal feedback?
400
This type of informative speech is the most complex and is often arranged in topical order.
What is a speech about concepts?
400
A speech body organized by types.
What is topical organization?
400
Unlike written citations, these do not follow a standard format.
What are oral citations?
400
Be courteous and attentive, avoid prejudging the speaker, and maintain the free and open expression of ideas.
What are the guidelines for ethical listening?
500
This involves asking yourself questions like: to whom am I speaking? What do I want them to know as a result of my speech?
What is being audience-centered?
500
In an informative speech, information should be: communicated accurately, communicated clearly, and made meaningful and interesting to the audience.
What are the three (3) criteria for effectiveness?
500
This indicates where a speaker is in a speech.
What is a signpost?
500
The following statement is an example of this: "More than 240,000 college students will die due to drug use - that's 10 times the current population of our campus"
What is relating statistics to your audience?
500
Making sure your goals are ethically sound, make sure your sources are credible, be fully prepared, be honest, avoid name-calling, and don't plagiarize.
What are the ethical guidelines for public speaking?