Organization
Technology & Communication
Speaking Online
Arguments
Persuasive Speaking
100

A question, statistic, or story to draw your audience in

What is an attention getter?

100

Communication that allows a sender to create a message that is stored until the receiver retrieves it; does not occur in real time.

What is asynchronous communication?

100

A presentation where the speaker and every member of the audience are tuned in virtually.

What is a fully virtual presentation?
100

A short statement that a speaker uses to state their position.

What is a claim?

100

The available means of persuasion in a given situation, according to Aristotle

What is rhetoric?

200

An organization pattern that arranges your topic by different points in time

What is chronological?

200

Communication behaviors using technology, where people conduct multiple, nearly simultaneous conversations.

What is multi-communicating?

200

Communication where some of the communicators are co-located and others are virtual.

What is hybrid?

200

It turns a claim from opinion into argument (according to the Toulmin Model)

What is the data?

200

A question on the reality of a given topic

What is a question of fact?

300

A phrase that identifies what you want to accomplish as a speaker

What is a specific purpose?

300

A visual representation of statistical data

What is a graph?

300

A background that conveys competence and credibility during an online presentation

What is a bookcase?

300

A variant of the syllogism, where one premise of an argument is left unstated

What is an enthymeme?
300

A state of conflicting thoughts or perceived emotions that produces tension that a person works to reduce.

What is cognitive dissonance?

400

An organization pattern designed to get your audience to take immediate action.

What is Monroe's Motivated Sequence?

400

A rule for designing presentations that ensures your content will be visible on a projector screen.

What is "Design for high contrast?"

400

Lighting that causes glare and shadows during an online presentation.

What is backlight?

400

The two sides of any position that each contain some degree of truth.

What is dissoi logoi?

400

Suggests that there are physiological, safety, social, self-esteem, and self-actualization needs that people desire to have fulfilled.

What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?

500

A structural marker that signals a point in the speech

What is a signpost?

500

The use of brief excerpts of copyrighted material for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research, without the need for permission from or payment to the copyright holder.

What is 'Fair Use'?

500

Using a poll, asking your audience to share a comment in the chat, or having the audience raise their virtual hands. 

What is a way to draw your virtual audience in?

500

The Latin phrase for a fallacy that asserts that because something happened after another thing, it must have been caused by it.

What is post hoc ergo propter hoc?

500

A means of “shielding” your eyes from the things that might bias you against an argument (e.g., race, gender, religion, etc.).

What is a veil of ignorance?