All the way at the bottom of Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs, this category includes food, water, warmth, and rest.
What are Physiological Needs?
A qualitative research method that involves a one-on-one exchange where the researcher asks a respondent questions.
What is an interview?
This statement clearly explains what a speaker wants to achieve with their speech.
What is a Purpose Statement?
This captures the audience’s interest at the beginning of a speech.
What is an Attention-Getter?
One of three essential foundations of rhetoric: the set of guiding beliefs, values, and moral character that define a person, group, or culture
What is ethos?
At the tier second to the bottom, this category includes security, employment, resources, health, and property.
What are Safety Needs?
A set of questions administered to several or many respondents.
What is a survey?
This statement captures the central idea or main point of a speech. A: What is a thesis statement?
What is a Thesis Statement?
This briefly reminds the audience of the main points covered in the speech
What is a Summary?
An Immediate impression of someone's age, competence, and attitude simply from their appearance and nonverbal behavior.
What is a preexisting notion?
In the middle tier, this category includes Intimate relationships, friends, family, and connections.
What are Belongingness & Love needs?
A qualitative research method that gathers the opinions of a target audience on a certain topic.
What is a Focus Group?
This is a pattern where main points follow a specific and necessary order.
What is a Chronological Pattern?
This lets the audience know which main points the speaker will cover within a speech.
What is a Preview Statement?
An specific type of audience that is required or feels obligated to attend a speech or event.
What is a Captive Audience?
In the tier second from the top, this category includes prestige, feelings of accomplishment, achievement, and confidence.
What are Esteem Needs?
A way to compile information from people in your audience, such as gender, race, ethnicity, age, marital status, occupation, etc.
What is a Demographic Analysis?
A pattern where the main points cover different aspects of a broader subject, and their order usually does not matter.
What is a Topical Pattern?
This memorable final remark signals that the speech is over. (not conclusion)
What is a Note of Finality?
The theory of how and why individuals modify their communication to fit situational, social, cultural, and relational contexts.
What is the Communication Accommodation Theory?
At the very top of the pyramid, this category includes achieving one’s full potential, creative hobbies, and acceptance.
What is Self-Actualization?
A type of analysis that reveals preexisting notions about the topic or the speaker that can limit your audience’s frame of reference. These could be Beliefs, Attitudes, or Values.
What is a Psychographic Analysis?
A pattern where the main points follow physical or geographic relationships, such as left to right or inside to outside.
What is a Spatial Pattern?
A reference for the speaker containing brief words or phrases to remind themselves of key points during delivery.
What is a Speaking Outline?
A type of outline used to work through, organize, and fully write out a speech.
What is a Preparation Outline?