Communication Basics
This is the process of translating ideas and images in the speaker's mind into verbal or nonverbal messages that a receiver can understand.
What is encoding?
This is a speech in which information is presented without argument, and not to entertain or commemmorate.
What is an informative speech?
In order to win an audience acceptance of their claims, a speaker might include testimony from this type of person.
Who is an expert?
This is the best way for speakers to avoid the debate over appropriate language and political correctness.
What is supporting all claims with credible evidence and logical reasoning?
In an effort to establish common ground with an audience, a speaker would emphasize these.
What are shared beliefs, values, and experiences?
This interferes with the communication process.
What is noise?
Speakers who seek to address an important moment or milestone deliver this type of speech.
What is a special-occasion speech?
A speaker ought to use this organizational pattern when their main points consist of a series of events.
What is a chronological pattern?
This is the name of the version of a full-sentence outline that includes all of what a speaker wants to say in their speech.
What is a working outline?
A speaker who is mindful about making consonant and vowel sounds clear and distinct is concerned with this.
What is articulation?
This occurs when communicators send and receive messages.
What is transaction?
A speaker who shows an audience how to prepare a baby’s bottles uses this technique to inform.
What is demonstration?
This is the role of supporting materials in a speech.
What is adding supplemental information to back up claims, ultimately bolstering main points?
Reading from one of these while delivering your speech can make you seem unengaging and robotic.
What is a manuscript?
Panning is a speech delivery technique that increases this.
What is eye contact?
Tailoring messages to a specific audience is an important characteristic of this type of communication.
What is public speaking?
This type of claim is used in persuasive speeches to suggest what a person, organization, or government ought to do.
What is a policy claim?
This is what ought to be included in a speech's conclusion.
What are a restatement of the thesis, review of main points, and a memorable concluding line?
We engage in this unethical behavior when we assume that all members of a group are alike.
What is stereotyping?
A speaker who utilizes space to their advantage, moving around the room and/or among audience members is mindful of this.
What is proxemics?
This model of communication was the first used by communication scholars to acknowledge the role of the environment.
What is the transactional model of communication?
These are the steps of Monroe's Motivated Sequence, in order.
What are the attention, need, satisfaction, visualization, and action steps?
This is where the most credible information can be found during the research process.
What are scholarly journal articles?
Unlike with ethical absolutism, lying or bending the truth is acceptable under this system of ethics.
What is situational ethics?
A speaker who argues that something should be done in the manner that it has always been done commits this fallacy.
What is the appeal to tradition fallacy?