From Sources to Speeches
Information that is first-hand or straight from the source; information that is unfiltered by interpretation or editing.
Primary Sources
The influence of speaker credentials and character in a speech; arguments based on credibility.
Ethos
A question to which no actual reply is expected.
Rhetorical Question
The process of the sender putting his/her thoughts and feelings into words or other symbols.
Encode
The objective or literal meaning shared by most people using the word.
Denotative
Works that are published on a regular, ongoing basis, such as magazines, academic journals, and newspapers.
Periodicals
A statement or claim that cannot be argued.
Irrefutable
The repetition of grammatical structures that correspond in sound, meter, and meaning.
Parallelism
An organized, face-to-face, prepared, intentional (purposeful) attempt to inform, entertain, or persuade a group of people (usually five or more) through words, physical delivery, and (at times) visual or audio aids.
Public Speaking
The branch of philosophy that involves determinations of what is right and moral.
Ethics
A review process in which other scholars have read a work of scholarly writing (usually articles, but sometimes books) and evaluated whether it meets the quality standards of a particular publication and/or discipline.
Peer-review
The central idea statement in a persuassive speech; a statement made advancing a judgment or opinion.
Proposition
An organizational pattern for speeches in which the main points are arranged according to movement in space or direction.
Spatial Pattern
Sharing meaning between two or more people.
Communication
The act of using another person's words or ideas without giving credit to that person.
Plagiarism
The presentation of a short message without advance preparation.
Impromptu Speaking
language used in a specific field that may or may not be understood by others.
Jargon
A severe fear of public speaking.
Glossophobia
Direct or indirect messages sent from an audience (receivers) back to the original sender of the message.
Feedback
The broad, overall goal of a speech; to inform, to persuade, to entertain, etc.
General Purpose
A speech based entirely and exclusively on facts and whose main purpose is to inform rather than persuade, amuse, or inspire.
Informative Speech
A pictorial representation of the relationships of quantitative data using dots, lines, bars, and pie slices.
Graph
The subjective or personal meaning the word evokes in people together or individually.
Connotative
The means through which a message gets from sender to receiver.
Channel
The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sentence or passage.
Alliteration