Speaking with a Purpose
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All About Brad
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This type of informative speeches explain the series of actions that produce a particular result or product.

What are speeches about processes?

100

This is the name of Central Michigan University's campus library.

What is Park Library?

100

This is the general term for the behaviors and characteristics that convey meaning without the use of words.

What is nonverbal communication?

100

This is an essential component of interpersonal relationships; it describes how sharing information reveals what you are feeling, thinking, and wishing, can aid in developing intimacy between two people.

What is self-disclosure?

100

Some of this famous Brad's most notable works include Fight Club, Troy, Inglorious Bastards, and Fury.

Who is Brad Pitt?

200

These are the three types of claims utilized in a persuasive speech.

What are fact claims, value claims, and policy claims?

200

Under this research tool, students are able to find specialized academic journals for information.

What are periodical databases?

200

These are intentional cues that are symbolic, and can replace words and stand alone without a verbal message.

What are emblems?

200

Initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, and bonding are all of the "coming together" steps in this interpersonal model.

What is the Relationship Stage Model?

200
"The crowd went wild!" when this Brad both directed and starred with Lady Gaga in the movie "A Star is Born". 

Who is Bradley Cooper?

300

This type of reasoning involves establishing a general principle or conclusion, then moving to specific examples or observations to support it.

What is deductive reasoning?

300

These are the three ways to evaluate the credibility of a source from the internet.

What are authorship, sponsorship, and recency?

300

These type of definitions are more personal and informed by experience, unlike their counterpart that focuses on the conventional and accepted definition of a word.

What are connotative definitions?

300

The mathematical equation "Rewards - Costs = Relationship outcome" captures the components of this interpersonal theory.

What is the Social Exchange Theory?

300

This Brad likes to spend his free time talking about or playing music; he is also the coolest Brad in the Communication Department at CMU.

Who is Brad Madsen? (Accept Brad the Instructor)

400

This method in informative speaking provides the audience with specific details that create a distinct visual image

What is describing?

400

When you find an available book in the library, this tells you in which section of the library where the book is found.

What is the call number?

400

In this field of study, anthropologist Edward T. Hall (1966) defined four levels of personal distance that range from intimate to public distance.

What are proxemics?

400

To decrease uncertainty in interpersonal interactions, communication specialist Charles Berger recommends this strategy, in which information is gathered by questioning others about the person of interest.

What is the Active strategy?

400

In starring in several Nationwide Insurance commercial with former quarterback Payton Manning, this Brad put a new spin on his music career by playing a catchy jingle.

Who is Brad Paisley?

500

This logical fallacy occurs when a speaker introduces an irrelevant idea to divert attention from the real issue under discussion.

What is a red herring?

500

This is the name of the Librarian for Communication Research and Communication Bibliographer: a great resource for beginning research!

Who is Aparna Zambare?

500

In this organization of time, cultures value flexibility and have a relaxed interpretation of schedules and punctuality. Good luck scheduling a hair appointment!

What is polychromic time?

500

This theory directs us to view relationships from a perspective that recognizes that change is constant, inevitable, and evident in all relationships.

What is the Relational Dialectics Theory

500

This Brad was the frontman for the American Ska Punk group "Sublime": famous during the early and mid-nineties for hits such as "Santeria" and "What I Got"

Who is Brad Nowell?

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