Broad Overview
an organized, face-to-face, prepared, intentional attempt to inform, entertain, or persuade a group of people through words, physical delivery, and visual or audio aids.
What is Public Speaking?
examining and looking at your audience first by its demographic characteristics and then by their internal psychological traits
What is Audience Analysis?
the branch of philosophy that involves determinations of what is right and moral
What is Ethics?
the broad, overall goal of a speech; to inform, to persuade, to entertain, etc.
What is General Purpose?
(Spatial Pattern or Chronological Pattern) is an organizational pattern for speeches in which the main points are arranged in time order
What is Chronological Pattern?
sharing meaning between two or more people.
What is Communication?
generalizing about a group of people and assuming that because a few persons in that group have a characteristic, all of them do
What is Stereotyping?
the act of using another person’s words or ideas without giving credit to that person
What is Plagiarism?
information that is first-hand or straight from the source; information that is unfiltered by interpretation or editing
What are Primary Sources?
a phrase or sentence that connects various parts of a speech and shows the relationship between them
What are Connectives?
the system of learned and shared symbols, language, values, and norms that distinguish one group of people from another
What is Culture?
(Homogeneous or Heterogeneous) is a group of people that are very similar in many characteristics
What is Homogeneous?
a false statement of fact that damages a person’s character, fame, or reputation
What is Defamatory Speech?
a statement that contains or summarizes a speech’s main points
What is a Central Idea Statement?
to set limits on what a word or term means, how the audience should think about it, and/or how you will use it
What is to Define?
a severe fear of public speaking
What is Glossophobia?
an active process where you are specifically making an effort to understand, process, and retain information
What is Listening?
(Initial Credibility or Derived Credibility) is a speaker’s credibility and trustworthiness throughout the process of the speech, which also can range from point to point in the speech
What is Derived Credibility?
works that are published on a regular, ongoing basis, such as magazines, academic journals, and newspapers
What are Periodicals?
having the quality or function of proving or demonstrating something; affording proof or evidence
What is Probative?
the means through which a message gets from sender to receiver
What is a Channel?
a tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one’s preconceptions
What is Confirmation Bias?
a speaker’s credibility at the end of the speech
What is Terminal Credibility?
a review process in which other scholars have read a work of scholarly writing (usually articles, but sometimes books) and evaluated whether it meets the quality standards of a particular publication and/or discipline
What is Peer-Review?
the repetition of grammatical structures that correspond in sound, meter, and meaning
What is Parallelism?