Back to Basics
Free Speech and Listening
Delivering Speeches
Speech Making
Class Policies
100
This is anything, external or internal, that interferes with communication.
What is noise?
100
This is sensitivity to the feelings, needs, interests, and backgrounds of other people.
What is accomodation?
100
This type of speaking includes knowing the major ideas, which have been outlined, but not memorizing the exact wording.
What is extemporaneous speaking?
100
This involves analyzing basic background information about your audience.
What is demographic analysis?
100
This is the day of the week that all chapter quizzes are supposed to be completed by.
What is Friday?
200
This is included in the transactional model of communication, but not the linear model.
What is feedback?
200
This is nonverbal communication that is subject to the same protections and limitations as verbal speech.
What is a speech act?
200
This is the production of clear and distinct speech sounds.
What is articulation?
200
This is not a great source for finding information for your speeches.
What is Wikipedia?
200
All assingment descriptions can be found on this academic website.
What is Blackboard?
300
You choose to either inform, persuade, or entertain with this factor in public speaking.
What is the general purpose?
300
Resorting, repeating, and rephrasing are the steps of this process.
What is active listening?
300
It is important to avoid this mind-set where you consider your own culture as superior to others.
What is an ethnocentric mind-set?
300
This is another word for a specific purpose or thesis.
What is a central idea?
300
This would be a good place to go to practice speeches and gain bonus points.
What is Speech Lab?
400
This is the central concept to always consider when constructing a speech.
What is the audience?
400
This skill includes making judgments about the conclusions presented in what you see, hear, and read.
What is critical thinking?
400
This is the most important aspect of physical delivery.
What is eye contact?
400
This lets the audience know what the main points will be.
What is a preview?
400
This organization, in addition to helping with personal problems, would also help with study habits.
What is CAPS (Counseling and Psychological Services)?
500
This is the use of words and symbols to achieve a goal.
What is rhetoric?
500
This is the process of using a method or standards to evaluate the effectiveness and appropriateness of the message.
What is rhetorical criticism?
500
Acknowleding emotions and not taking the issue personally as aspects of this.
What is neutralizing hostile questions?
500
These 2 parts of a speech should be like bookends around the body of the speech.
What is the introduction and conclusion?
500
When I am unsure about an assignment, this is the person I should contact.
Who is my professor?
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