Components of Communication
Professional Communication Decisions
Rhetorical Devices & Persuasive Techniques
Product Development
Media Literacy
The Research Process
Investigative Journalism & Critique
Imitations, Fame, and Impressions
100

This component is used by a source to receivers.

What is a Message?

100

This term refers to the exchange of information specifically used to complete tasks, share ideas, or coordinate work in a professional setting.

What is professional communication?

100

MS. P REPLACED ZACH'S Q!

These three (3) devices are used to appeal to an audience by manipulating their Trust, Hearts, and Minds.

What are Ethos, Pathos, and Logos?

100

This is the first step of product development.

What is Market Research?

100

This is faulty information that spreads regardless of its intent.

What is Misinformation?

100

This is the process of choosing a side and defending it.

What is Taking a Stance?

100

This is used to hook the audience, and make them want to read.

What are Sensational Headlines?

100

This is the component of speech that relates to the highness or lowness of a speaker’s voice.

What is Pitch of Speech?

200

This is the medium used to send a message.

What is a Channel?

200

These two (2) modes of exchange are mainly used for office/home communication jobs.

What are Telecommunications and Telecommuting?

200

This persuasive technique overstates something to create a strong impression.

What is Exaggeration?

200

Advertisements depicted within TV shows and movies are this type of advertising.

What is Product Placement?

200

This is making a statement that pulls a person to one side or another side.

What is Polarization?

200

The Research Design Process includes collecting all kinds of data, which fall under these 2 categories.

What is Qualitative or Quantitative data?

200

This piece of writing reveals something about a topic that the audience did not know or was ill-informed on.

What is an Exposé?

200

This is the component of speech that relates to the emphasis placed on certain parts of a speaker’s phrasing.

What is Inflection?

300

This component surrounds a word, event, or idea to provide information for understanding.

What is Context?

300

These rules guide respectful and responsible behavior when communicating online or through digital platforms.

What is netiquette?

300

This type of persuasive technique is used to create a dramatic effect or provoke a thought instead of an answer.

What is a Rhetorical Question?

300

This refers to the overall pricing when involved in manufacturing an item.

What is the production cost?

300

This is the act of humor and imitation being used lightheartedly to provide commentary or critique.

What is Satire?

300

This is determined by checking the author's qualifications, accuracy of information, publication date, and whether the source is biased or objective.

What is the Credibility of a Source?

300

This is the profession of developing informational texts for broadcasting or other forms of mass communication.

What is Journalism?

300

This is the term for how someone acts in various situations and in response to various stimuli.

What are Behavioral Traits?

400

!!!DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!

These three (3) external components of communication affect how a message is received or interpreted.

What are Environment, Context, and Interference?

400

This term describes the use of digital technology and online platforms to conduct business transactions such as buying and selling goods or services. 

What is e-commerce?

400

!!!DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!

This persuasive technique makes the audience feel like you are speaking directly to them.

What is Using Pronouns?

400

MS. P REPLACED AVEREE'S Q!

These two (2) steps of product development entail creating a visual plan of the product and a to-scale model of the product.

What are Sketching and Prototyping?

400

This is the unfounded explanation of a situation that blames the secretive work of sinister, powerful people.

What is a Conspiracy Theory?

400

!!!DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!

To sway an audience to connect with the information you gather, you must consider the type of audience you have and how you will communicate to this aspect of each individual.

What are Styles of Communication?

400

This aspect of Journalism reveals details regarding what is wrong with an institution, system, or idea.

What is Explaining a Problem or Issue?

400

!!!DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!

These are the four (4) factors you should consider when imitating a speaker.

What are Background, Personality Traits, Physical Presentation, and Behavior Traits?

500

MS. P REPLACED HANNAH'S Q!

This component of communication can appear through nonverbal or verbal cues and can inform the source of it's impact on the audience.

What is Feedback?

500

These two (2) career types verify facts and relay them remaining objective, unlike influencers.

What are Journalists and Broadcasters.

(Alternative Answers TBD by Ms. P.)

500

Speakers often appeal to pathos by using this technique, which makes the audience visualize an experience or feel an emotion near first-hand.

What is Imagery?

500

MS. P REPLACED ZAIRE'S Q!

!!!DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!

These four (4) basic steps are the outline to creating a perfect Pitch!

What are Introduction, Summary, Request, and Call to Action?

500

!!!DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!

This is the term for creating/sharing oversimplified or false information and wielding it to intentionally harm an audience.

What is Weaponizing Disinformation?

500

Research requires you to remain flexible and refine your focus as you learn new information, which will be guided by this open-ended thought that sits at the heart of a subject.

What is an Essential Question?

500

MS. P REPLACED JAIDEN'S Q!

These two (2) types of evidence can serve as proof of an issue or problem.

What are Photographic and Witness Reports.

500

These are the four (4) leading factors pertaining to Non-Verbal Communication.

What are Facial Expressions, Head Movement, Body Movement, and Artifacts?

600

MS. P REPLACED TALEAH'S Q!

This is the order of progression that includes all six (6) components of communication.

What is the Source uses a Channel to send a Message to the Receiver; who processes the message; as well as the Environment, Context, and any Interference, to provide Feedback?

600

These two (2) career clusters most- frequently use appeals to emotion, reasoning, and credibility to sway large audiences.

What are Advertising and Public Service?

(Alternative Answers TBD by Ms. P.)

600

A speaker who says they are “one of the people”, while also promoting a product developed with leading experts in the scientific field most closely related to the product, combines these Rhetorical Devices.

What are Ethos and Pathos?

600

MS. P REPLACED ZACH'S Q!

When developing a product, these 6 aspects of the idea must be considered for the longevity and success of a product.

What is the product must be Researchable, Prototypeable, Testable, Financeable, Launchable, and Valuable/Impactful?

600

Politicians often use emotional manipulation to lead people to vote for their political party in this type of society.

What is Post-Truth?

600

MS. P REPLACED BRAYLON'S Q!

These five (5) questions must be answered while designing data collection for a Research Plan.

What are:

Primary or Secondary?

Qualitative or Quantitative?

Materials (Tools and Supplies)?

How (When, Where, and In what Way)?

Criteria for Selecting Sources?

600

MS. P REPLACED JAIDEN'S Q!

Anonymous sources are referred to by this type of word (150pts), also called an alias, and can provide these three (3) styles of interview perspectives(450pts).

FOR 150 POINTS: What are monikers?

FOR 450 POINTS: What are Witness Statements, Protests, and Activistic Perspectives?

600

These four (4) aspects should be considered when imitating someone’s behavioral traits.

What are speech patterns, body language, typical reactions, and/or unique habits?