Argument and Research
This is a single, declarative sentence in which the speaker makes the central, overarching arguments of their entire speech.
What is a thesis statement?
A form of communication that features open spaces for citizens to come together, good and fair information to help structure the conversation, and skilled facilitators to guide the process.
What is public deliberation?
Utilized by acknowledging that there are many speaking traditions and ways in which those traditions can be integrated or used independently.
What is the multicultural paradigm of public speaking?
The pleasing modulation of tone in a speaker’s voice during the delivery of a speech.
What is vocal variety?
Small, unnoticeable objects that a speaker can bring with them to a speaking situation that gives them a sense of calm, confidence, and support.
This is a type of source that features ideas, reporting, and opinions from writers, critics, leaders, and community members that express their viewpoint or experience.
What is a non-academic source?
A type of outline that includes a complete accounting of all the information the speaker wants to provide in their speech, in full and complete sentences.
What is a preparation outline?
A type of speaking that offends, threatens, or insults groups, based on race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or other traits.
What is hate speech?
A speaking aid that relies on the audience’s sense of smell to advance the speaker’s message.
What is an olfactory speaking aid?
The belief that language and behaviors that offend marginalized communities in a given society should be curtailed and replaced with statements and acts that affirm these communities’ place in that society.
What is political correctness?
Reasoning that uses a number of specific cases to draw to a general conclusion.
What is inductive reasoning?
A speech that focuses on fixing public problems, challenges the status quo, and calls for specific action.
What is a policy speech?
This is a holistic attempt to account for the major attributes that are at work in most communication interactions that include elements like Sender/Channel/Message/Receiver.
What is the Standard Model of Communication?
Parts of speech that do particular tasks and work together to achieve the goal of the speech.
Anxiety about communication that is linked to a particular situation, circumstance, or moment.
This type of plagiarism involves the taking of a short line or small amount of information from another person’s work without appropriately quoting or citing that material.
What is incremental plagiarism?
Common lines of argument that a good speaker can go to that are applicable for almost any topic.
What are topoi?
The degree of style and formality that a speech should have to be considered appropriate for a certain situation.
What is decorum?
The ways in which speakers use space to advance their speaking situation.
What are proxemics?
Sites in which we emphasize the need for courage rather than the illusion of safety in public discourse.
What are brave spaces?
A logical fallacy in which a speaker intentionally mischaracterizes the position of their opponent and then attacks their opponent for that position
What is strawman?
When a speaker makes all the members of our diverse, pluralistic audience feel acknowledged, welcomed, and valued by the speaker.
What is speaking for inclusion and affirmation?
These are the six basic forms of communication.
What are intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, organizational, mass, and public communication?
Prefabricated methods of ordering points that are applied to the entirety of a speech.
What are ordering patterns?
The willingness of a speaker or listener to hear views, perspectives, and beliefs that are different from their own and fully consider them before accepting or dismissing them.
What is open-mindedness? (Will accept strategies in speaking across difference)