Ch. 1
The sum of a person's knowledge, experience, goals, values, and attitudes.
What is frame of reference?
Presenting another's words or ideas as your own.
What is plagiarism?
Listening for enjoyment or entertainment.
What is appreciative listening?
The first step in speechmaking.
What is choosing a topic?
Keeping the audience foremost in mind at every step of speech preparation and presentation.
What is audience centeredness?
The speech delivery sounds spontaneous no matter how often it has been rehearsed.
What is conversational quality?
Viewing one's own culture or group as superior to others.
What is ethnocentrism?
Failing to give credit for parts borrowed from other sources though the majority of the speech/writing is your own or otherwise correctly cited.
What is incremental plagiarism?
The causes of poor listening.
What are not concentrating, listening too hard, jumping to conclusions, and focusing on delivery or appearance?
A single infinitive phrase that states precisely what the speaker hopes to accomplish (begins with the general purpose).
What is the specific purpose?
The tendency of people to be concerned above all with their own values, beliefs, and well-being.
The tendency of people to be concerned above all with their own values, beliefs, and well-being.
Changes in rate, pitch, and volume which give the voice its expressiveness.
What is vocal variety?
The means or mode of communication.
What is the channel?
Stealing ideas or language from two or more sources and passing it off as your own (copy and paste with perhaps a transition written by you in between).
What is patchwork plagiarism?
The difference between rate of talk and the rate at which the brain processes language.
What is spare brain time?
A one sentence statement that sums up or encapsulates the major ideas of the speech (called a thesis statement in English class).
What is the central idea?
The three types of questions used on a survey in audience analysis.
What are fixed-alternative, scale, and open-ended questions?
The accepted standard of sounds and rhythm of words in a given language.
What is pronunciation?
The seven parts of the Speech Communication Process
What are speaker, message, channel, listener, feedback, interference, and situation?
Stealing the entire piece from one source and passing it off as your own (by purchasing a paper, borrowing a paper, or downloading online for example).
What is global plagiarism?
Listening for the main points, evidence, and technique.
What is focused listening?
The guidelines for writing a specific purpose.
What are: write it as a full infinitive phrase, make a statement - not a question, avoid figurative language, limit to one distinct idea, and avoid being vague.
Audience analysis that focuses on factors such as age, gender, religion, sexual orientation, group membership, and racial, ethnic, or cultural background.
What is demographic audience analysis?
The physical production of speech sounds - saying words crisply (ex. The big black bug bit the big black bear).
What is articulation?
Focused and organized thinking that involves relationships among ideas, soundness of evidence, and differences between fact and opinion.
What is critical thinking?
The guidelines for ethical speaking.
What are making sure your goals are ethically sound, being fully prepared, being honest, avoiding name-calling and other forms of abusive language, and putting ethical principles into practice?
Ways to become a better listener.
What is take listening seriously, be an active listener, resist distractions, and don't be diverted by appearance or delivery?
The guidelines for writing a central idea.
What are: write it as a full infinitive phrase, make a statement - not a question, avoid figurative language, limit to one distinct idea, and avoid being vague.
Audience analysis that focuses on factors such as the size of the audience, the physical setting for the speech, and the disposition of the audience toward the topic, the speaker, and the occasion.
What is situational audience analysis?
Variety of language distinguished by accent, grammar, and vocabulary which is usually geographically based.
What is dialect?