Communication Basics
a. An active promotion of a cause
b. Actions that lead to a goal
c. One of many ways to approach a problem
What is advocacy?
A turning of the text where the literal meaning is changed or altered to provide new insight
What is a trope?
Increase audience understanding
Provide alternative perspectives
Raise awareness
What is the purpose of informative speaking?
Publicly available information
What is an open system?
You’re eligible for this many points total of extra credit in one semester.
15 points
A speaker attempts to move an audience by advocating for a purposeful message—through informing, persuading, or entertaining—in a particular context.
What is public speaking?
The main proposition crafted as a declarative statement
What is a claim?
This speech provides the meaning of an idea to the audience
What is a speech that defines?
The process of discovering new knowledge and investigating a topic from different points of view
What is research?
A formal document that organizes a speech into main and subpoenas.
What is an outline?
an active process where you are specifically making an effort to understand, process, and retain information
What is listening?
This organizational pattern traces a linear process and is often used in speeches of instruction or demonstration
What is chronological?
A speech that places the audience at the scene.
What is a speech that describes?
Fact checking source claims by reading other sites and resources
What is lateral reading?
A single sentence synopsis of the speaker's position on a topic.
What is a thesis?
Establishing credibility as a speaker
Emotional appeals
Using reason or logic
What is ethos, pathos, and logos?
The five types of evidence.
What are: examples, narratives, facts, statistics, and testimonies?
Four sources.
How many sources did Ms. Brewer require for the informative speech?
What are the different information types?
A sentence, phrase, or word joining one part of a speech to the next.
What is a transition statement?
Meaning that communication creates meaning and, thus, reality
Meaning is not received or understood the same all of the time
Refers to the collection of language, values, beliefs, knowledge, rituals, and attitudes shared amongst a group
How is communication constitutive, contextual, and cultural?
Sociocultural characteristics that identify and characterize populations
What are demographics
The different types of informative speeches.
What are speeches that: describe, define, explain, and demonstrate
When we research the context, and the audience's demographics, beliefs, values, and attitudes.
What is an audience analysis?
Evokes the senses and is language that evokes the sensations of smell, taste, see, hear, and feel
What is vivid language?