Refers to the speaker’s use of his or her voice and body during the actual presentation of a speech.
What is Delivery?
Are factors in a specific speech setting that you can observe or discover before you give the speech.
What is Situational characteristics?
Definition of research objectives.
What is the goals one needs to accomplish with research?
Definition of main points.
What is key ideas that support a thesis and help an audience understand and remember what is most important about a speaker’s topic?
Taking into consideration the audience, occasion, and nature of one’s message when choosing language for a speech.
What is word choice or diction?
Definition of arrangement.
What is refers to the speaker’s use of his or her voice and body during the actual presentation of a speech.
Definition of stationary audience.
What is an audience that will be relatively motionless while listening to a speech. Classrooms, lecture halls, and conference rooms generally house stationary audiences.
A career professional hired to assist students and faculty with their research.
What is research librarian?
Effective speeches present how many points.
What is two five main points?
The exact, literal dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotative meaning?
As you approach the lectern and start delivering your speech, keep the following guidelines in mind:
What is maintaining eye contact, project your voice, maintain an even rate of speaking, and convey interest in your topic?
Also known as chronemics—refers to the time of day or day of the week when your audience members will be listening to your presentation.
What is body clock?
Definition of quotation book.
What is a reference work offering famous or notable quotations on a variety of subjects?
Ideas gathered from brainstorming and research that explain, prove, and expand on a speech’s main points.
What is subpoints?
What is specialized or technical words or phrases familiar only to people in a specific field or group?
The ability, enabled by practice, to deliver a speech smoothly and confidently from a speaking outline without reading from it.
What is extemporaneous delivery?
Audience members’ characteristics, including but not limited to age, gender composition, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, religious orientation, socioeconomic background, and political affiliation.
What is demographics?
Are one of the best systems that humans have ever developed for storing and conveying information; they have important advantages as information sources and are often the best place to start your research.
What is books?
A speech organization pattern in which the speaker presents information in chronological order, from beginning to end, with each main point addressing a particular time within the chronology.
What is chronological (temporal) pattern?
Extraneous words that make a presentation hard to follow. To say “In spite of the fact that you disagree with me” is more verbally cluttered than “Although you disagree with me.”
What is verbal clutter?
The five canons of rhetoric.
What is invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery?
Definition of gender composition.
What is a demographic characteristic that considers how many men versus how many women will be in an audience?
To find government documents, you must use what resources.
What is Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, GPO Access, and CQ Electronic Library?
Definition of causal pattern.
What is a speech organization pattern that explains cause-and-effect relationships in which each main point is either an event that leads to a situation or a link in a chain of events between a catalyst and a final outcome?
Definition of anaphora.
What is a repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences. It’s used to achieve emphasis and clarity, as well as a rhetorical sense of style?