It's FUNdamental!
The process whereby one person stimulates meaning in the mind of another through verbal and/or nonverbal means.
Communication
The study of what makes any action right or wrong.
Ethics
The audience's sense of your competence before your presentation
Initial credibility
When team members meet to generate new ideas without any initial judgment.
Brainstorming
Enhances the audience’s awareness of new or unknown information about an already familiar topic.
Informatory Speaking
The originator of a message
Source
What are the three appeals in the rhetorical triangle called?
Ethos, Logos, Pathos
Being ever-mindful of the audience in making your presentation, and adapting your message and delivery to the nature and needs of the audience.
Audience-Centered Speaking
Claim statement made by an expert in. their field of expertise.
Expert testimony
To focus too much on what you are doing as the speaker rather than connecting with the audience.
Self-focus
The receiver’s act of attaching meaning to a message sent by a source.
Decoding
An ethical theory that emphasizes a person’s character and past experiences.
Value ethics
Cues to let the speaker know you’re listening.
Backchanneling Cues
Establishing the rational or background information of your source.
Qualifier
A leader who arises over time as the team members begin to view one person as the leader
Emergent leadership
While Tariq is presenting his speech on space exploration, a construction crew begins jackhammering right outside the classroom window, making it hard for his classmates to hear his key points. This communication concept is known as this.
(External) Noise
An ethical theory that conceives of individuals as always enmeshed in relational networks.
Care Ethics
The anxiety you feel about communicating in most situations. Often called “trait-like anxiety.”
Dispositional Communication Anxiety
Sharing your sources aloud with your audience during a presentation using your author and year.
Verbal citations
When a team member slacks off because they know the work will get done regardless of their effort.
Social Loafing
The extent to which the message after transmission is similar to the message originally transmitted.
Fidelity
An ethical theory that emphasizes a connection to the creation of consequences associated with happiness.
Utilitarianism
A way of better understanding your audience by compiling information relative to the attitudes, values, and beliefs of your audience.
Psychographic profile
A brief citation of research given in the text of a paper or outline.
Parenthetical citation
Understanding that your personal opinions and preferences are only temporary, and you might change your mind if you hear a better idea.
Provisionalism