Essential Elements 1
Essential Elements 2
Fear Factor
Keeping in Context
Read the Instructions
100
Public speaking is THIS kind of process because its elements are interdependent; that is, all the elements in the public speaking process depend on and interact with all the other elements.
What is a transactional process?
100
This essential element of public speaking is the intended receivers of the speech.
What is the audience?
100
People who have a general fear of communication, regardless of the specific situation, suffer from this type of apprehension.
What is trait apprehension?
100
This public speaking context is the actual place in which you give your speech; e.g., a small intimate room or a sports arena.
What is the physical context?
100
This basic course document should be read and studied before attempting any assignment.
What is the syllabus?
200
This essential element of public speaking is the one who presents the speech.
Who is the speaker?
200
This essential element of public speaking is the physical, sociopsychological, temporal, and cultural space in which the speech is presented.
What is the context?
200
People who experience fear of communication only in certain situations suffer from this type of apprehension.
What is state apprehension?
200
This public speaking context is the relationship between speaker and audience; e.g., a supervisor speaking to employees.
What is the socio-psychological context?
200
The score sheet with criteria for speech outlines can be found in this folder on our Blackboard home page.
What is "Grading Rubrics"?
300
This essential element of public speaking is its verbal and nonverbal signals.
What is the message?
300
This essential element of public speaking is the actual sending of the message, the delivery of the speech.
What is the presentation?
300
Gaining experience in public speaking, seeing public speaking as a conversation, stressing the similarity between you and the audience, and thorough speech preparation and practice are all ways of doing this.
What is reversing the factors that cause communication apprehension.
300
This public speaking context includes time of day and where a speech fits into a sequence of events; e.g., when a speech follows dinner.
What is the temporal context?
300
You must submit a correctly formatted hard copy of this document before a speech and then submit an electronic copy by midnight that same day.
What is a speech outline?
400
This essential element of public speaking is the medium through which the signals pass from speaker to listener.
What is the channel?
400
This essential element of public speaking is the moral dimensions of communication.
What are ethics?
400
Self-affirmation ("I can do this"), maintaining realistic expectations, and visualizing a successful performance are all ways to reduce communication anxiety by doing this.
What is restructuring your thinking (or cognitive restructuring)?
400
This aspect of a public speaking context is passed down from one generation to the next through communication rather than through genes.
What is culture?
400
The template for correctly formatting your speech outlines can be found in this chapter of your textbook.
What is Chapter 7?
500
This essential element of public speaking is the interference that distorts the message.
What is noise?
500
This essential element of public is the collection of beliefs, attitudes, values, and ways of behaving that are shared by a group of people and passed down from one generation to the next through communication rather than through genes.
What is culture?
500
Creating and performing a list of behaviors that gradually lead you from easier behaviors to the desired but feared behavior is called this.
What is systematic desensitization?
500
This aspect of a public speaking context can be considered a cultural variable since societies teach children different ways to act "like a man" or "like a woman."
What is gender?
500
This is the section of your outline where you must list at least four legitimate and credible sources of research that you employed to support the main points of your speech.
What is the bibliography (or references)?