Potential Presentation Preparation Plans
When preparing for a speech, it's crucial to have a ____ session where you can write down what you want to talk about, how you want to talk about it, and why it may be of importance to your audience.
Brainstorm / Brainstorming
When a speaker attempts to move an audience by advocating for a purposeful message -- through informing, persuading, or entertaining -- in a particular context.
Public Speaking
The belief that one's culture is better than the others -- or simply that their own culture should be the standard.
Culturally relative.... or ethnocentric
Ethnocentrism/Ethnocentric
What is the name of the event when the University of Kansas plays Kansas State University?
Sunflower Showdown
Elsa accidentally sleeps in and forgets about her speech deadline. While rushing to complete her paper, she fails to credit any of the sources mentioned within her speech. What is this an example of?
Plagiarism
Doing this type of speech -- when you have no time to prepare and are just told to speak in the exact moment -- can help you better your skills of presenting on topics you have no knowledge about.
Impromptu Speech
Describe the difference between "listening" and "hearing"
Listening = actively engaged, paying attention, physiological process.
Hearing = basically background noise
This type of research system is limited behind a paywall and/or subscription -- only allowing some researchers access to their content.
Closed System
This U.S. President said that "Rock Chalk Jayhawk" was the best college chant he's ever heard
Teddy (Theodore) Roosevelt
Stefani wants to prove to her audience that she is the best candidate to give the speech. While presenting, she makes sure to state her credibility and implement statistics to strengthen her argument(s). What 2/3 rhetorical strategies does Stefani utilize in her speech?
Ethos = credibility
Logos = logistics, statistics, facts, numbers, etc.
Dorothy wants to practice her presentation by imagining the people who will ACTUALLY be in the room with her -- although the speech will be live-streamed for countless people to watch on Facebook. What would you call the audience Dorothy is trying to appeal to while she is mentally preparing for her speech?
Explicit Audience
Reveals and clarifies the main argument of your speech.
Thesis Statement
"Statements we hold to be true."
Values... or beliefs
Beliefs
does not say they ARE true -- just that we hold them to be true
What year did the beloved Baby Jay mascot hatch during KU's homecoming game?
1971
Frank is dealing with public speaking speaking anxiety and decides to go to bed early to get a good night's rest before speech day. When he wakes up, he eats a healthy breakfast before heading to campus. This is an example of ____ preparation.
A. Contextual... B. Mental... C.Physical... D.Speech
C. Physical Preparation
Stevie wants to be as prepared as possible when it comes to presenting her speech. In order to do this, she shows up an hour early to see the space she is speaking at, the stage she is walking around, tests the technology she will be using (if she decides to use it), and gets a feel for how loud she must talk so the audience can hear her clearly. What type of preparation is this?
Contextual preparation
The collection of language, values, beliefs, knowledge, rituals, and attitudes shared amongst a group
Culture
This type of research system includes Google, the public library, or the local newspaper handed out for free.
Open System
This KU alum played a small but mighty character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Paul Rudd
Sammy wants to implement aesthetics in their speech. For example, they mention that the topic they are presenting on made them feel "blue". What type of meaning does this word have?
Metaphorical, NOT literal... Denotative = dictionary
Jay decides to have a brainstorm session to decide on a topic for his speech. He already knows the topic -- college basketball -- but doesn't know the different main points he should talk about. To think of ideas, he draws a circle with "college basketball" written in the middle, with various branches of ideas going off from there. Those branches have branches and those branches have branches, until he feels confident knowing what he'll talk about. What type of brainstorming strategy did Jay use?
Web Map, Mind Map
Dolly has been trying to think of a speech idea for days now... and she is having no luck! Finally, she decides to simply write on the topic of country music, something she knows plenty about. At last, she was able to make her decision by following the process of tracking ideas, insights, or topics that she had experience with, or interest in. What is the term for the process Dolly followed while brainstorming?
Personal Inventory
True or False... Communication can be neutral, if both parties agree to a deal.
False, communication is never neutral because meaning is always being negotiated
2022, 2008, 1988
Lana wants to make sure that all her sources are reliable and trustworthy for her COMS 130 speech. In order to do this, she decides to fact-check source claims by reading other sites and resources.
What is the strategy that Lana is using?
Lateral Reading