Chapter 1
Sharing meaning between two or more people
What Is Communication?
A false statement of fact that damages a persons character, fame , or reputation
What Is Defamatory Speech?
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.
What Is Peer-Review?
Issues related to the movement of the body or physical activity.
What Is Kinesthetic?
A graph designed to show the differences between quantities.
What Is Bar Graph?
Anything that disrupts, interrupts, or interferes with the communication process.
What Is Noise?
The branch of philosophy that involves determinations of what is right and moral.
What Is Ethics?
Information that is first-hand or straight from the source; information that is unfiltered by interpretation or editing.
What is Primary Sources?
Feelings or issues related to the inner workings of the body.
What Is Organic?
Of or relating to the sense of smell.
What Is Olfactory?
The objective or literal meaning shared by most people using the word.
What Is Denotative?
A speaker’s credibility at the beginning of or even before the speech.
What Is Initial Credibility?
Works that are published on a regular, ongoing basis, such as magazines, academic journals, and newspapers
What is periodicals?
The mathematical average for a given set of numbers.
What Is Mean?
Of or relating to the sense of taste.
What Is Gustatory?
The subjective or personal meaning the word evokes in people together or individually.
What Is Connotative?
The act of using another person’s words or ideas without giving credit to that person.
What Is Plagiarism?
Information that is not directly from the first-hand source; information that has been compiled, filtered, edited, or interpreted in some way.
What Is Secondary Sources?
The middle number in a given set of numbers.
What Is Median?
A graph designed to show trends over time.
What Is Line Graph?
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.
What Is Public Speaking?
A speakers credibility at the end of the speech.
What Is Terminal Credibility?
New research, carried out to acquire data first- hand rather from previously published sources to answer specific questions or issues and discover knowledge.
What Is Primary research?
The number that is the most frequently occurring within a given set of numbers.
What Is Mode?
The resources beyond the speech itself that a speaker uses to enhance the message conveyed to the audience.
What Is Presentation Aids?