General
Name at least 3 ways to reducing speech anxiety
•Acquire experience
•Prepare, prepare, prepare
•Think positively
•Use power of visualization
•Know most nervousness is not visible
•Don’t expect perfection
Define ethics.
Deals with issues of right & wrong in human affairs
A thesis/central idea should be a ___ sentence statement.
A thesis/central idea should be a ONE sentence statement.
Define nonverbal delivery.
Based on use of voice and body
This is an example of an ____.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune of January 31, 2018, quotes Chris Nowinski, co-founder of the Concussion Legacy Foundation, on the dangers of youth tackle football. “Children,” he says, “were never intended to be hit in the head five hundred times in three months every year while their brain is going through incredible development.”
Oral citation
Define ethnocentrism
Believing one’s group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures
Define plagiarism.
Presenting language, ideas of another as one’s own. It can also be copying your own work without acknowledging prior use.
Figurative language should be used during a speech (true/false)
FALSE - vague and figurative language should be avoided. Vivid, descriptive language should be used!
Name at least 3 ways to improve your voice during a speech delivery.
•Volume
•Pitch
•Rate
•Pauses
•Vocal variety
•Pronunciation
•Articulation
•Dialect
What are some tips for using statistics within a speech delivery? Name at least three.
•Use to quantify ideas
•Use sparingly
•Identify sources
•Explain thoroughly
•Round off
•Use visual aids if needed
What is positive nervousness?
Controlled nervousness that energizes speaker for presentation
Listeners have ethical obligations (true/false)
TRUE
What does the audience relevancy statement define?
Why the audience should be interested in your speech and how it might effect them.
Name 3 ways to practice for a speech delivery.
•Rehearse aloud
•Ask friends, family members for feedback
•Time your speech
What can be mentioned orally during a speech to give credit to (or cite) the original author who's work you are referencing.
•Name of document
•Author, sponsoring organization
•Qualifications
•Date
Does speech-making require one-way or two-way communication methods?
Speech-making is a two-way communication process.
Name the 3 types of plagiarism.
•Global
•Patchwork
•Incremental
What is the importance of the speaker credibility statement?
The speaker credibility statement tells the audience why YOU are credible to speak on your topic.
Name 3 ways to confidently deliver a speech.
•Plant feet, smile to audience
•Gesture naturally
•Establish, maintain eye contact
•Speak expressively
•Take steps to reduce nervousness
Name the 3 types of supporting materials
•Examples
•Statistics
•Testimony
Define egocentrism
Tendency to be concerned with own values, beliefs, well-being.
Name at least 3 guidelines for ethical speaking
•Make ethically sound goals
•Be fully prepared
•Be honest
•Avoid name calling, abusive language
•Put principles into practice
Define extemporaneous speaking
Carefully prepared, rehearsed speech presented from brief notes that has a conversational tone.
What are the four methods of delivery, as defined by our textbook and lecture.
•Manuscript
•Memory
•Impromptu
•Extemporaneous
Name at least 3 of the types of speech organization available (the ways in which you can structure the body and main points of your speech).
Chronological, spatial, causal, problem-solution, topical