"To inform" or "to entertain" are examples of this.
What is a general purpose statement?
100
Drifting attention, distractions, preconceived notions, disagreement, prejudices and abstractions are all reasons that audiences stop doing this during a speech.
What is listening?
100
Individuals drawn together in ways that create unity and a shared identity; the people listening to a speech
What is the audience?
100
These types of sources provide information on an individual's education, accomplishments, and professional activities.
What are bibliographies?
100
Help communicate our speech in visual terms.
What are visual/presentational aids?
200
It sums up the main idea of your speech in one sentence.
What is a thesis statement?
200
Obstacles that make listening difficult or stop the reception of a message.
What is noise?
200
Use these and you will be unfairly categorizing members of the audience based on their gender.
What are gender stereotypes?
200
Dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc. are this type of source.
What are general reference materials or sources?
200
A speech with the goal of communicating information and ideas in a way that your audience will understand and remember.
What is an informative speech?
300
They are verifiable statements that support the speaker's claims.
What are facts?
300
Assessing the worth of the speaker's ideas and determining their importance to you.
What is evaluation?
300
In order to figure our what your audience is thinking, you can send out this and get their responses.
What is a questionnarie?
300
Relates to credibility; what makes a source an expert
What is authority?
300
Photographs, diagrams, drawings, maps, tables and graphs are this type of visual aid.
What are two-dimensional reproductions?
400
Using these is another way to support your speech; they involve making comparisons to clarify or prove a point; they can be both literal and figurative
What are analogies?
400
This is a part of the listening process and involves responding to the speaker's message.
What is feedback?
400
Questions that limit responses to several choices yielding valuable information about demographic factors.
What are fixed-alternative questions?
400
The extent to which material is presented without bias or distortion.
What is objectivity?
400
Type of an informative speech that paints a clear picture of an event, object, place, situation or concept.
What is a descriptive speech?
500
One of the three stages of psychological arousal or tension; occurs before a speech when the heart rate jumps from 70 to 95-140 beats per minute?
What is the anticipatory stage?
500
Sensing, interpreting, evaluating, and responding are part of this process.
What is the four stages of listening?
500
Sent out at the end of the speech to reveal what the audience's reactions or thoughts were.
What is a post-speech analysis or questionnaire?
500
Old-fashioned way to read archived newspapers that the government has stopped producing.
What is microfilm or microfiche?
500
These are used in a speech to help the audience understand the sequence of points to be covered.