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Definitions
Key Terms
Supporting a Topic
Researching a Topic
EXTRA
100
The strategy used to fake our attention with our friends, in classes, and as audience members when fellow students give speeches
Pseudo-listening or fake listening
100
A precise statement of the main idea or points that will be developed in the speech
The central idea
100
List two guidelines for informative speaking

Relating the topic to your audience, relating yourself to your topic, present new and interesting information, help your audience visualize, and build on information that is already familiar

100
List two ways to brainstorm for topics
Taking personal inventory and clustering
100
When a listener focuses on a certain stimuli in their environment while filtering out others
Selective attention
200
Define what an analogy is and how we use it in speeches 
An analogy is a comparison bases on similarities between two things, one familiar to the audience and the other less familiar.

(literal vs. figurative)

200
List 2 of the 4 purposes of informative speaking
Spark desire, increase understanding, helps listeners remember, and help apply information
200
Define what a specific purpose statement would include
Focuses on a particular aspect of your topic, is only one sentence, and lets your audience know what you're going to talk about
200
List 2 reference works you can use in your informative speeches
Encyclopedias, almanacs, book of quotations, and biographical volumes
200
Which websites do you want to stay away from when finding sources?
Anything that can be edited by the public (i.e. Wikipedia) and anything that ends in .com because it is commercial
300
The most common form of organizing for the informative speech that focuses on the categories, qualities, advantages disadvantages, qualities or types of persons, places, or things.
Topical pattern
300
List the five types of informative speeches
Speeches on people, on objects, on events, on processes, and on concepts
300
List 3 types of support material you can use in your speeches
Definitions, examples, statistics, testimonies, narratives, and analogies
300
Define what a general purpose statement is and what it would include
Either to inform or to persuade 
300
What are four ways to organize an informative speech?
Cause-effect, chronological, spatial, and topical
400
A statistical term that reflects the central or typical value in a collection of numbers: mean, median, and mode.
Central tendency 
400
List the four methods for presenting information in informative speeches
Defining, describing, explaining, and demonstrating
400
Explain the difference between a testimony and a narrative
Testimony: the opinions of people with specific knowledge or experience on a specific topic

Narrative: a brief story or a somewhat longer count told by a speaker to support a main point

400
List the three key things to consider when evaluating a document from the World Wide Web
Authorship, sponsorship, and recency
400
List the four myths of listening
Listening is easy, listening is a better of intelligence, listening does not require planning, and reading & listening involve similar skills
500
Define brief example, extended example, and hypothetical example
Brief example: a short statement made to support or illustrate a point.


Extended example: gives a speaker the opportunity to tell a story vividly and dramatically.

Hypothetical example: describes an imaginary or fictitious event or person.

500
List the five key terms that listening involves
Hearing, attending, interpreting, understanding, and resolving
500
List the three key suggestions from the book for using support material in your speeches
Cite sources orally during your speech, use a variety of support material, and appeal to different learning styles
500
List the three key suggestions the book gives us for doing research 
Start early, keep a running bibliography, and take careful notes
500
List all 4 benefits of being a good listener
Relationship satisfaction, community activism, media awareness, and job success