These are the three purposes of supporting materials.
What is giving the speaker’s ideas clarity, making a speaker’s ideas vivid, making a speaker’s ideas credible?
100
This type of informative speaking is about the meaning or significance of a concept or term.
What is a speech of description?
100
This communicates ideas, sends messages about the person using it, can reveal aspects of a speaker’s background, reveals a speaker’s attitudes and emotions and strengthens social bonds between speakers.
What are the functions of language?
100
The first is a biological response and the second is a cognitive response.
What is hearing and listening?
100
Name three elements of the Transactional Model of Communication.
What is listener, receiver, encoding the message, channel, message, decoding the message, feedback, noise?
200
These are elements of the introduction.
What is the attention getter, relation to the audience, setup of credibility, and preview of your main points?
200
This derives from the character and reputation of the speaker; also known as credibilty.
What is Ethos?
200
This lacking aspect of nonverbal communication explains why speech delivery that is appropriate in one situation may not meet the requirements of another.
What is universal meaning?
200
These are given by the listener to the speaker during and following a speech.
What is verbal and nonverbal feedback.
200
This type of communication involves eye contact, body language, gestures, and eye contact among other areas.
What is nonverbal communication?
300
This type of comparison associates items that do not share actual differences; its purpose of this is to surprise the listener into seeing or considering one person, place, object, or concept in a new way.
What is figurative comparison?
300
This type of informative speech is a time-ordered sequence, often organized chronologically but can also be organized using spatial, topical, pro-con, or some other organizational pattern, depending upon the speaker’s purpose.
What is a speech about processes?
300
This is is the most popular method of speech delivery that allows the speaker to be free to interact with the audience in a natural, conversational way.
What is extemporaneous speaking?
300
This type of plagiarism is when a person takes pieces of two or more works, combine them, and call them their own.
What is patchwork plagiarism?
300
This response to public speaking anxiety includes sour stomach, sweat, accelerated heart rate, and shortness of breath.
What is the physiological response?
400
These are the minimal elements of an effective oral citation.
What is author's name, publication title, and date?
400
These are the only ways to create effective informative presentations.
What is to tell the audience something new or to tell them something they already know about in a different way?
400
This type of language can be specific to an organization or group, but is rarely understood to those outside of it.
What is jargon?
400
This is an obstacle of effective listening when you reconstruct messages so that they reflect your own attitudes, values and beliefs, prejudices.
What is assimilation?
400
These are categories in which your audience is placed in order to approach an understanding of their potential stance about your topic.
What are demographics?
500
John found a quote by a reputable scientist in The Washington Post who claims that anti-bacterial soap can lead to super diseases that will be on the scale of the Black Death of 1348. John has searched other resources and cannot find anything to substantiate this claim. This is the action John should take.
What is because the claim cannot be verified, John should not use the information?
500
These are the elements that a communicator influences through persuasion.
What are values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.
500
These are three of the elements of vocal delivery and their definitions.
What is rate, pitch, volume, inflection, articulation, and pronunciation?
500
This view of ethics argues that absolute statements of morality are ethnocentric and the ethics of a message depend on the culture's values and beliefs as well as the circumstances.
What is subjective?
500
This is the most important element that you learn through public speaking that will help with your career, relationships, and as a citizen.