Chapters 5
What is the term that refers to coming up with ideas for a topic?
What is Brainstorming
What is the term used to describe analyzing audience characteristics such as age, gender, education, and cultural background?
What is Demographic analysis?
To avoid baseless claims, using these can support your argument.
What is a source?
These are brief illustrations used to clarify or reinforce a point in a speech
What are examples?
These are the major ideas developed in the body of a speech, usually ranging from two to five.
What are main points?
What is the difference between an informative speech and a persuasive speech?
informative: to teach or lecture about information (Convey info clearly, accurately, interestingly),
persuasive: to advocates or acts as a partisan for a certain topic (change the attitude or actions of your audience)
What is audience-centeredness, and why is it important in public speaking?
Audience-centeredness is focusing on the audience to gain a desired response and to understand who you are speaking to
Wake up, go through your closet to do this, and go to your interview to make yourself look professional
What is Dress Appropriately/Nice?
This technique involves explaining or comparing statistics to something familiar so the audience understands their meaning and importance
What is putting statistics into content by explaining or comparing them to something familiar, so the audience understands their meaning
Words or phrases like transitions, previews, and summaries that tie a speech together use these.
What are connectives?
True or False? The central idea of your speech should be a one-sentence statement that sums up the major ideas in your speech.
True
True or False? Psychographic analysis focuses on an audience’s values, beliefs, habits, hobbies, and personal experiences.
True
A newspaper like the New York Times or The Globe is considered this source.
What is a Physical Source?
These are detailed stories or narratives used to develop and strengthen a speaker’s main point
What are extended questions?
When a speech follows a time pattern, presenting events in the order they happened, it uses this organizational method.
What is chronological order?
What is the difference between Specific Purpose and General Idea?
Specific Purpose: A single infinitive phrase.
General Idea: The broad goal of the speech
What is the difference between demographic analysis and psychographic analysis?
Demographic analysis focuses on observable traits (age, gender, education), while psychographic analysis focuses on values, beliefs, habits, and experiences
When searching through an article, this online infographic is a dead giveaway for a bias.
What is a Ad/Advertisement?
This type of testimony comes from ordinary people with firsthand experience rather than recognized authorities
Whats is peer testimony
Organizing a speech based on physical location or direction, such as front to back or top to bottom, uses this method.
What is spatial order?
What audience would be appropriate for this speech? “The benefits of music therapy for people with psychological or cognitive disabilities.
(any are correct): Musicians, Medical Students, Social Workers
What type of questions would be most appropriate to gather detailed opinions and explanations from an audience before a speech?
What is an Open-ended questions
If another source agrees with what the first is saying, you could call it this
What is Verified/Verifiable?
Supporting materials in a speech must meet these three criteria in order to be effective and convincing
What are accurate, relevant, and sufficient supporting materials
Explaining why something happened and what effects resulted from it follows this two-part organizational pattern.
What is causal order?