Definitions
Consists of a statement or series of statements that, if they are viewed as being true, lead logical to the truth of another statement
Contains premise(s) and a conclusion
What is an argument?
This process includes: communicators, messages, a channel, circumstances, feedback, and noise
What is the communication process?
An acquired skill where you selectively attend to and assign meaning to sounds.
(Hint: distinct from hearing)
What is listening?
Communicating with a large audience
What is public communication?
Examples include: to inform, to convince, to motivate, and to celebrate
What are speech purposes?
The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques
What is rhetoric?
This process is an extemporaneous personal exchange. It is composed of the opening, the body, and the closing
What is the conversational process?
Communicating within yourself
What is intrapersonal communication?
The act of treating everyone with similar characteristics as though they were the same
What is stereotyping?
Examples of symptoms include: pounding heart, clammy hands, sweat, nausea, and quivering voice
What is communication apprehension?
The medium through which messages go from one communicator to another
(Hint: part of the perceptual process)
What is a channel?
This process helps us sort through external stimuli for relevance. It is composed of selection, organization, and interpretation
What is the perceptual process?
The act of giving your personal information to another person
What is self-disclosure?
Going from an ineffective focus to an effective, e.g.
Effective: The drummer from Maroon 5 uses three unique types of instruments
What is narrowing a topic?
Examples include: steps, aspects, characteristics, parts, areas, or reasons
What is the key organizing feature?
This diagram is a way of understanding what we know about ourself and what others know about us. It shows self-disclosure and feedback
What is the Johari Window?
In this process of speech construction you select a general purpose, select a topic, narrow the topic, find the key organizing feature, write the specific goal statement, write the thesis statement, and analyze the audience
What is the planning stage?
In this process, we consider the characteristics of the people and the characteristics of the situation. We look at demographics and physical settings.
What is audience analysis?
Drawing conclusions from facts we observe.
(Hint: emotions affect how we do this)
What is inferring or making inferences?
For example: 9 out of 10 dentists recommend Sensodyne toothpaste
What is ethos?
An assertion that a proposed course of action should or should not be pursued
What is a policy claim?
The rational process through which our minds form beliefs about things from the evidence provided from our experiences with them
What is induction?
A skill that is used to double-check your understanding of what is going on with another person
It consists of three parts: Give an objective description of what you sensed, Give an interpretation of what the situation meant to you, You ask a question
What is perception checking?
Creating meaning for behaviors, often inaccurately
What is attribution?
Examples of styles include: judgemental, questioning, directive, empathetic, interpreting, and active
What is feedback?