Speech involving issues of importance to the larger community such as whether to decriminalize marijuana or engage in a military conflict.
What is Public Discourse?
100
the process of gathering and analyzing information about audience members' attributes and motivations with the explicit aim of preparing your speech in ways that will be meaningful to them.
What is audience analysis?
100
A point about something that could happen
What is a hypothetical example?
100
Establishes the purpose of the speech and shows its relevance to the audience
What is an introduction?
200
These three Greek words are foundational to rhetoric
What are Pathos, Ethos, and Logos?
200
Any source that requires credit in written form should be acknowledged in oral form
What is the rule for avoiding plagiarism as a public speaker
200
our general evaluations of people, ideas, objects, or events
What are Attitudes?
200
Brief stories of interesting and often humorous incidents based on real life
What are anecdotes
200
Points indicated by their parallel alignment
What are coordinate points
300
Audience-Based, Trait, Situational, and Context-Based
What are the four types of Communication Apprehension?
300
Legal protection afforded the creators of original literary and artistic works
What is copyright?
300
The statistical characteristics of a given population
What are demographics?
300
The deliberate falsification of information. Doctored photographs and falsified profit-and-loss statements are examples
What is disinformation?
300
The speaker encourages listeners to act in response to the speech, see the problem in a new way, or change both their actions and their beliefs about the problem
What is a call to action?
400
The canon of rhetoric about the way the speaker uses language to express the speech ideas
What is Style?
400
Anything that competes for the attention we are trying to give to something else
What is a listening distraction?
400
Write down one topic that might interest you and your listeners. Then jot down the first thing that comes to mind related to it. Repeat the process until you have fifteen to twenty items.
What is word association?
400
Firsthand accounts or direct evidence of events, objects, or people
What is a primary source?
400
The practice of alternating between two or more languages or varieties of language in conversation.
What is code-switching?
500
a circumstance calling for a public response
What is Rhetorical Situation
500
the open sharing of ideas in an atmosphere of respect
What is dialogic communication
500
Lays out precisely what you want the audience to take away from your presentation. EG, To persuade my audience that service learning courses are beneficial for gaining employment after schooling
What is a specific speech purpose?
500
Examine the domain in the web address. Look for an About link. Identify the creator of the information.
What is Evaluate Authorship and Sponsorship
500
Cadenced arrangement of language, repetition, aliteration, parallelism