A speech designed to convey knowledge and understanding.
What is an informative speech?
200
speaker, message, channel, listener, feedback, interference, and situation
What are the seven elements of speech communication?
200
Presenting another person's language or ideas as one's own.
What is plagiarism?
200
Not concentrating
Listening too hard
Jumping to conclusions
Focusing on delivery and personal appearance
What is are the four causes of poor listening?
200
What a speaker wants the audience to remember after it has forgotten everything else in a speech.
What is a residual message?
200
Speeches about objects
Speeches about processes
Speeches about events
Speeches about concepts
What are the four categories of informative speeches?
300
The belief that one's own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures.
What is ethnocentrism?
300
In paraphrasing, you restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words, whereas plagiarism is taking someone else's work and passing it off as your own.
What is the difference between plagiarism and paraphrasing.
300
Giving undivided attention to a speaker in a genuine effort to understand the speaker's point of view.
What is active listening?
300
Personal inventory
Clustering
Reference search
Internet search
What are four ways to brainstorm?
400
The sum of a person's knowledge, experience, goals, values, and attitudes. No two people can have the exact same frame or reference.
What is frame of reference?
400
Be courteous and attentive.
Avoid prejudging the speaker.
Maintain the free and open expression of ideas.
What are the guidelines for ethical listening?
400
An outline that briefly notes a speaker's main points and supporting evidence in rough outline form.
What is a key-word outline?
400
Should be expressed in a full sentence.
Should not be in the form of a question.
Should avoid figurative language.
Should not be vague or overly general.
What are the guidelines of a central idea?
400
400 BONUS POINTS
400 BONUS POINTS
500
True
In a study, 70 percent said giving a speech was their worst fear. True or False?
500
Make sure your goals are ethically sound.
Be fully prepared for each speech.
Be honest in what you say.
Avoid name-calling and other forms of abusive language.
Put ethical principles into practice.
What are the guidelines for ethical speaking?
500
The difference between the rate at which most people talk (120 to 150 words a minute) and the rate at which the brain can process language (400 to 800 words a minute).
What is spare "brain-time"
500
The broad goal of a speech.
What is a general purpose?
500
A systematic series of actions that leads to a specific result or product.