Purpose, Topics, and Informative Speaking
The broad, overall goal of a speech is commonly known as?
General purpose
In Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric", this refers to a speaker's character or credibility
Ethos
This method of controlling nervousness involves breathing in for a four count, holding for four, breathing out for four, and holding for four.
Box-to-box breathing
Information created by someone who was not present at an event (i.e., after an event happened) is called?
Secondary source
These are statements or phrases generally designed to help “connect” parts of your speech to make it easier for audience members to follow the ideas.
Connectives
This method of narrowing a topic allows you to explore and identify related subtopics to your general topic.
Clustering
This type of audience analysis focuses on gathering information about the specific characteristics/profile of your audience like age, gender, race, occupation, education, and more
Demographic Analysis
This is something professional athletes frequently do before games to prepare for success, and is also very useful to public speakers.
Visualize success (or size up the room/space)
This pattern helps structure your speech based on time or sequence.
Chronological
This is the type of outline you will prepare to use when actually delivering the speech.
Speaking Outline
Informative speaking usually happens at one of three levels, what is one of those levels?
Formal, Vocational, and Impromptu
This type of analysis can reveal preexisting notions that limit your audience’s frame of reference (by getting a sense of their values, opinions, etc.)
Psychographic analysis
Power in delivery refers to what?
The intentional and controlled volume of the voice used to ensure every audience member can hear clearly.
Words and symbols that let you expand or narrow your search parameters when using a database or search engine are called?
Boolean operators
This is the means through which a message gets
from sender to receiver
Channel
Achieving all three of these goals is the key to your effectiveness as an informative speaker.
accuracy, clarity, and interest
Audiences are likely to have pre-existing notions on both you the speaker and _____
your topic
Your delivery is determined by what 3 factors?
Body Language/Presence
Appearance
Voice
This pattern arranges main points based on their layout or proximity to each other.
Spatial
This model of communication says we have multiple messages flowing simultaneously between people.
Transactional Model
The four primary constraints in topic selection are _____?
Purpose
Audience
Context
Timeframe
When covering Ethical Public Speaking Principles, we wrote a formula for speaker credibility that included what?
Honesty + Truthfulness + Good Will + Integrity = Speaker Credibility
The term for a severe fear of public speaking?
Glossophobia
The CRAAP test is a good way to evaluate a source, and it stands for
Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose
This term refers to generalizing about a group of people and assuming that because a few persons in that group have a characteristic, all of them do.
Stereotyping