The perception of the speaker as well-informed and trustworthy.
What is the speaker's ethos?
100
A speech to help Western students fill out and apply for financial aid and scholarships.
What is the sequential (process) pattern?
100
One of the most accessible, but requires evaluation.
What is a website?
100
According to the latest U. S. Department of Justice figures, ten children are killed by gunfire every day.
What are statistics?
100
The standard tone and inflection of sounds and syllables in words.
What is pronunciation?
200
Any distraction that disrupts the flow of the speech.
What is noise?
200
A speech at orientation to acquaint new students with the campus.
What is the spatial pattern?
200
One of the oldest types; usually requires travel to a repository.
What is a book?
200
Public distrust is more pervasive than a year ago. The Occupy Wall Street movement shows why people believe they are now the have-nots.
What is an example?
200
Errant words that clutter conversations and distract audiences from important messages.
What are vocalized pauses, also known as vocal mannerisms or vocal viruses?
300
The strategy of writing for listeners, not readers.
What is speaking or oral style?
300
A speech explaining three systems of health care.
What is a categorical pattern?
300
Primary research.
What is an interview or survey?
300
A professor of economics at Harvard explainied the consequences of raising the minimum wage.
What is expert testimony?
300
The clarity with which words are spoken.
What is articulation?
400
One type of visual aid that encourages emotional involvement by the audience.
What is a photograph?
400
A speech explaining how the use of alcohol by children and adolescents leads to drinking problems later in life.
What is the cause-effect pattern?
400
Could be print or electronic; could be local, state, or national; your tax dollars at work.
What are government agencies?
400
Where the Duke scowled and lumbered—he wasn’t so much a cattleman as a cattle man—Clint scowled and pounced, a scorpion with stubble.
What is compare and contrast?
400
Sentences that sound like questions. Are you sure?
What is uptalk?
500
To Identify listener needs and values.
What is conduct an audience analysis?
500
A professional athlete's personal view of motivation based on the people and events that shaped his life, beginning in childhood.
What is the narrative pattern?
500
You don't need to be a super sleuth, but having the "key" will help your search.
What are informational databases?
500
Psychological stress is not directly created by external events, but instead by our own perception of the event, which then causes us to feel pressure or have anxiety.
What is a definition?
500
The simplest and most effective way to connect with the audience.