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Speaking Ethically
Confidence & Listening
Gathering & Using Supporting Material
Introducing & Concluding Your Speech
Speaker Language & Style
100
This is presenting someone else's words or ideas as though they were one's own.
What is plagiarism
100
Smiles, head nods, eye contact, and clapping from the audience are all forms of this.
What is feedback
100
____ is an advanced Web-searching technique that allows a user to narrow a subject or key word search by adding various requirements.
What is Boolean search
100
Common pet peeves of public speaking instructors include ending a speech with "Thank you" or ____.
What is "Are there any questions?"
100
____ are words or phrases used uniquely by speakers in one part of a country.
What are regionalisms
200
This term, coined by Greek rhetorician Aristotle, refers to a speaker's credibility.
What is ethos
200
This is the attitude that one's own cultural approach is superior to those from other cultures.
What is ethnocentrism
200
This popular database offers many full-text articles from 1865 to the present, covering a wide variety of subjects.
What is Academic Search Complete
200
____ is a question intended to provoke thought rather than elicit an answer.
What is rhetorical question
200
____ is the literal meaning of a word, while ____ is the meaning listeners associate with a word, based on their experiences.
What are denotation, connotation
300
Name three pieces of information that are often included in oral citations.
What are author, title, & year of publication
300
With this style of communication apprehension, you are less sensitive to tension and have a lower heart rate when speaking.
What is insensitive
300
____ is a comparison between two similar things, while ____ is a comparison between two essentially dissimilar things that share some common feature on which the comparison depends.
What is literal analogy, figurative analogy
300
Name five effective ways of introducing a speech.
What are illustrations or anecdotes; startling facts or statistics; quotations; humor; questions; references to historical events; references to recent events; personal references; references to the occasion; references to preceding speeches
300
What are the three differences between oral and written language styles?
What are oral style is more personal than written style; oral style is less formal than written style; oral style is more repetitive than written style
400
In 1964, the Supreme Court ruled that before a public official could recover damages for slander, he or she must prove that the slanderous statement was made with _____.
What is actual malice
400
This is the process of evaluating the quality of information, ideas, and arguments presented by the speaker.
What is critical listening
400
What are the six criteria for evaluating internet resources?
What are accountability, accuracy, objectivity, timeliness, usability, and diversity
400
What are the five purposes of an introduction?
What are to get the audience's attention, give the audience a reason to listen, introduce the subject, establish your credibility, and preview your main ideas
400
Name the four ways to craft memorable word structures with cadence.
What are repetition, parallelism, antithesis, alliteration
500
Name the five characteristics of an ethical speaker.
What are has a clear, responsible goal; uses sound evidence and reasoning; is sensitive to and tolerant of differences; is honest; avoids plagiarism
500
List the five stages of listening.
What are select, attend, understand, remember, respond
500
What six considerations should a speaker make to determine what supporting material is best to use in a speech?
What are magnitude, proximity, concreteness, variety, humor, and suitability
500
What are the six purposes of a conclusion?
What are to summarize a speech, re-emphasize the central idea in a memorable way, restate the main idea, provide closure, give verbal or nonverbal signals of the end of the speech, and motivate the audience to respond
500
Name the three ways to use memorable word structures effectively.
What are use distinctive stylistic devices sparingly; use stylistic devices at strategic points in your speech; use stylistic devices to economize