In regular conversation, when you:
organize your thoughts logically, tailor your message to who you're speaking to, tell a story that has impact, and adapt to the feedback you get from a listener
You are illustrating the ________________ between public speaking and conversation
What are the similarities?
100
What ever a speaker communicates to someone else.
The goal should be that what is intended and what is actually communicated are the same.
What is the "message"?
100
According to the text, there are 195 of them, and everyone of them has someone living in the United States
What are Nations of the world?
100
Occurs when the speaker fails to give credit for particular parts of a speech that are borrowed from other people.
What is incremental plagiarism?
100
The branch of philosophy that deals with right or wrong in human affairs.
What is Ethics?
200
Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Oprah Winfrey, Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno
Who are famous people who all report being anxious about speaking in public?
You are not alone!
200
When listeners don't just absorb a message, but send back messages of their own.
What is "feedback"?
200
55 million people in the United States do this.
What is the number of people in the U.S. who speak a language other than English at home?
200
The act of stealing a speech entirely from a single source and passing it off as one's own.
What is global plagiarism?
200
Word may not literally break bones, but they can leave psychological scars as surely as sticks and stones can leave physical scars.
What is a reason to avoid name-calling and other forms of abusive language?
300
"That perfect cocktail of nervousness and excitement" that should be a normal part of giving a successful speech.
What is "positive nervousness"?
300
Traffic outside, a loud radiator, students talking in the hall, and a room that is too hot or cold.
What are examples of "external interference" or "noise"?
300
Considering how cultural factors may affect your listeners, using audience analysis questionnaires, trying to hear your own message through other's ears and using visual aids that related to a wide range of listeners.
What are examples of Cultural Sensitivity in speech planning?
300
When a speaker _____________, s/he restates or summarizes an author's ideas in her/his own words.
What is "paraphrases"?
300
To listen courteously and attentively, to avoid prejudging the speaker, and to support the free and open expression of ideas.
What are the basic guidelines for Ethical Listening discussed in this text?
400
Acquire speaking experience, prepare as much as possible, think positively, use the power of visualization, know that most nervousness is not visible, and don't expect perfection.
What are the text's tips for dealing with nervousness?
400
Being at a graduation, funeral or wedding, being indoors or outside, in the morning or night, in a small room or a noisy restaurant.
What are factors of the "Situation" in which speech communication occurs?
400
A nonverbal sign that could be interpreted by a Brazilian audience as roughly the same meaning as an extended middle finger in the U.S.
What is the classic U.S. "OK" sign?
400
Even if your speech as a whole is ethical, you can still be guilty of ____________ plagiarism if you fail to give credit for quotations, paraphrases, and other specific parts of the speech that are borrowed from other people.
What is incremental plagiarism?
400
Ideally all speakers would be truthful and devoted to the good of society, but in actuality, without a strong sense of __________ guiding a public speaker, the power of speech might be abused and the speaker might rely on dishonest or manipulative tactics and promote immoral aims.
What is "ethical responsibility"?
500
Being able to spot weaknesses in other people's arguments and to avoid them in your own arguments, using focused and organized thinking.
What is Critical Thinking?
500
You have a headache, you're hungry, or you're thinking about a problem you have to fix at work.
What are examples of "internal interference" or "noise"?
500
Because of ____________ we identify with our group or culture and see its values, beliefs and customs as "right" or "natural"- in comparison to the values, beliefs and customs or other cultures, which we tend to think of as "wrong" or unnatural."
What is Ethnocentrism?
500
When the entire speech is taken more or less verbatim from two or more sources.
What is patchwork plagiarism?
500
To gain a desired response from listeners, but not at any cost (be "the good person speaking well," Roman rhetorician Quintilian)