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A skilled and eloquent public speaker

Orator

Ethical speakers typically practice which of the following behaviors when presenting to audiences?

Ethical speakers give appropriate attribution or credit as necessary

Which of the following is the most important consideration when choosing between a sentence outline and note cards for delivering your speech?

If you use a sentence outline, you will end up reading to your audience rather than speaking to them

An audience member who practices active listening during a presentation generally exhibits which of the following behaviors?

Refrains from texting or chatting on phones

Which of the following represents the information element of a speech about white collar crimes in corporate America?

Statistics about the number of white collar crimes committed in corporate America

Which of the following persuasive goals is the most difficult to accomplish?

To change a person's core beliefs

If the topic of your speech is, for example, "How to run a successful small business through the utilization of social media platforms," what is the corresponding general purpose of this speech?

To instruct.

Which of the following is an organization that helps glossophobia sufferers?

Toastmasters International.

Which type of communication apprehension is NOT related to speaking in front of an audience?

Trait anxiety

A college student finds that the phrasing and speech structure of his research paper closely mirrors much of his source material and research. This might be the considered which of the following forms of plagiarism?

Unintended plagiarism

When speaking, presenters should make sure to do which of the following?

Use silence rather than fillers during pauses in the speech.

The phenomenon of how vivid or highly graphic and dramatic events affect an individual's perception of a situation.

Vividness effect

Which of the following is a benefit of speaking about a topic you are an expert in?

You already have the knowledge, which makes it easy to explain to an audience.

Farewells, toasts, and after dinner remarks typically

aim to entertain using humor and anecdote.

A speech in which you are called upon to speak with little or no notice beforehand is referred to as

an impromptu speech.

A diagram showing the relationships among concepts, with the concepts drawn in rectangular boxes, which are connected with labelled arrows that denote the relationships between concepts, such as "is a", "gives rise to", "results in", "is required by," or "contributes to".

concept map

In an informative speech it is a good idea to

use visual aids to give the audience a visual representation of information in the speech.

To overcome nervousness before delivering a speech, speakers should do which of the following?

All of the answers.

A persuasive speech should contain

All of these answers.

A successful persuasive speech

All of these answers.

If a speaker is presenting to an audience of teenagers and young adults, which of the following sensory enhancements should they use to improve listener engagement?

All of these answers.

In order to build credibility, you should

All of these answers.

Why should you focus on choosing a topic in which you have an interest rather than a topic in which you are an expert?

Because your inquisitiveness in the topic will draw your audience in.

Critical thinking consists of six key processes and actions. Which of the following best describes the process of clarifying goals?

Before outlining your speech, consider exactly what you want to accomplish.

According to John Zimmer, what is most important to consider when choosing a topic?

Choosing a topic with which your audience can identify.

The tendency to pick out aspects of a conversation that support our one's own preexisting beliefs and values.

Confirmation bias

Which of the following is an example of an effect of anxiety?

Feeling faint.

The words you choose to say in your speech is the most important element of your speech preparation. This statement is

false. It is important not only to consider the words you say, but how you say them.

Many speakers get nervous before giving a speech because they think the audience expects perfection. This is

false. Most audiences are like a sympathetic friend.

Which of the following is considered a connecting transition word in a speech?

likewise

"You are the bread and the knife" is an example of

metaphor.

What is guided meditation?

The guiding of an individual into a beneficial state of consciousness by another's voice.

A teleprompter is

a display device that prompts the speaker with an electronic visual text of their speech.

If you are preparing an informative speech about a famous actor, you should

explain his biography and name the movies he's appeared in.

One's perception of their environment and situation around them on a moment by moment basis refers to

situational awareness.

Objectivity is

the ability to remove your personal bias from your speech.

Egocentrism is

the belief that one's own opinions or interests are the most important or valid.

Ethos is a type of appeal to an audience based on

the speaker's personal credibility.

Which of the following best describes an informative speech about a process?

A speech that describes how something is made, done, or works.

If a manager located in Canada wishes to give a live demonstration to colleagues located in South Africa, which multimedia tool would be most appropriate for facilitating his presentation?

A web conferencing application

An individual can do which of the following if a book is currently not on the library shelves?

All of these answers.

Which of the following is a description of the goal of actuation?

The speech is designed to cause the audience to take action.

If you are trying to appeal to your audience's emotions, a good supporting material to use is

a personal anecdote.

A well-known company is disorganized, with no vision or comprehensive business goals. This company would best benefit from which type of leadership?

Authoritarian leadership

The art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade.

Rhetoric

The final stage in the listening process is

responding.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, inhaling smoke from cigarettes or other devices impacts the circulatory system by restricting blood vessels and increasing the incidence of peripheral vascular disease and abdominal aortic aneurysm. Which of the following revisions of this statement is the most effective in using language familiar to teenagers?

According to the CDC, smoking cigarettes, marijuana, or powdered drugs can have serious effects on your veins and arteries, making them less flexible and more vulnerable to disease and other problems.

When is it a good idea to use audience analysis as a way to cope with the anxiety and stress of public speaking?

All of the answers

Which of the following is NOT a type of public speaking?

Exploratory

Which of the following best describes the process of abstraction?

Find a similar quality of a group of objects, name it, and use the name to stand for the quality in other objects.

Which of these answers best describes a process of reasoning or decision making by a group, especially one characterized by uncritical acceptance or conformity to a perceived majority view?

Group think

Knowledge, one of the three main registers of meaning, provides which of the following material for a well-crafted speech?

Knowledge refers to the ideas that come from processing information, rather than from the information itself.

A woman gives a press conference because her daughter has been kidnapped. The woman cries and begs for her daughter to be returned. This exemplifies which type of appeal?

Pathos

What is the overall theory of Relationship Based Persuasion?

Persuasion is the art of winning over others.

Which of the following examples best describes the editing process?

Rewriting awkward phrasing or parts throughout the speech

What does the acronym SECS stand for?

Sincerity, Enthusiasm, Confidence, and Simplicity

To analyze the demographics of an audience, which course of study should you emulate?

Sociology.

You are planning a speech about social networking including a detailed discussion of code and new programming languages. Which audience is this speech best suited to?

Software engineers

Which of the following statements is true?

Some nervousness can make your speech better.

Which of the following is a good primary source?

An interview you conduct

Inspirational speeches are categorized as what type of speech?

Entertaining

In order for your speech to be easy for your audience to follow, it is important to fully understand what you are speaking about. Which of the following is a good way to assure that you understand your topic?

All of these answers.

When searching for information on the internet, you should

All of these answers.

When speaking publicly in North America, in order for audiences to respond favorably to your speech, you should

All of these answers.

Which of the following is a component of ethical persuasion?

All of these answers.

Which of the following is an example of a critical thinking skill?

All of these answers.

Which of the following research databases can be used to target specific information and filter out irrelevant material?

All of these answers.

Which of the following tactics can be used to detect online plagiarism?

All of these answers.

The majority of public libraries in the United States use which of the following systems?

Dewey Decimal Classification

Feeling light-headed, nauseated, forgetful, or inarticulate are all signs of what communication challenge?

Speaking apprehension

Subject matter experts should take the time to gather information related to their speech topic because research can

back up claims with evidence from industry studies.

If you know the person you are tasked with introducing in your speech, you should

be mindful of the context of your relationship with the speaker and of the event itself.

A scholar is delivering a speech on dialects used in urban environments in the United States at the end of the 20th century. He delivers the entire speech as a rap and the audience has a difficult time following his argument. This is an example of

focusing on style, not substance.

The act of plagiarizing: the copying of another person's ideas, text or other creative work, and presenting it as one's own, especially without permission.

plagiarism

What characterizes the Baby Boom generation?

they are nimble, quick-acting multi-taskers.

A brief example is used

to further illustrate a point that is not obvious, but not very complex either.

Which organizational patterns are useful for persuasive speaking?

All of the answers

Speakers should do which of the following to avoid intimidating audiences?

Refrain from using abusive language

A well-known speaker is considering using visual aids for a major presentation. Her main concern is making sure the audience can easily read and understand her visual aids. To accomplish her goal, the speaker should ensure that her visual aids

contain large text and compatible colors.

A speech that should make a convincing case for its position is referred to as a

persuasive speech.

Organizing a speech thesis into smaller, logical steps to build toward a larger, more complex idea helps strengthen

the thesis' main argument.

When you are writing a speech to be memorized, you should

write as though you are speaking naturally, directly to the audience.

The characteristics of population such as age, gender, sexual orientation, occupation, education; classification of the characteristics of the people.

Demographics