Public speaking

The two most important factors affecting the credibility of a persuasive speaker are

Competence and character

What is the first step to improve your listening skills

Take listening seriously

The impact of examples is greatly enhanced when they are followed by

Statistics

What giving and informative speech, you should take special care to

translate technical information into every day language

Alyssa is giving a speech on women's athletics and has brought a petition for her listeners to sign when should she circulate the petition?

After she has finished speaking

Ask a public speaker, you face ethical issues when

All of the above (selecting the topic of your speech, researching your speech, organizing your speech)

As a speaker, you should probably use more connotative words if you wanted to

Arouse an emotional response

Using Yahoo or another of the subject based search engines on the Internet is recommended as one method of ____________for a speech topic

Brainstorming

WhichOrganizational pattern would probably be most effective for arranging the main points east beach with the specific purpose: to inform my audience how to set up an online business

Chronological

Hey speech honoring, celebrating for remembering the subject

Commemorative speech

To inform my audience about the basic steps and car maintenance and how to protect their investment with auto insurance is a poorly phrased specific purpose statement for the classroom speech because it

Contains more than one distinct idea

Dealing with such matters as the logical relationships among ideas, the soundness of evidence, and the differences between fact and opinion are all part of what

Critical thinking

What is denotation

Dictionary definition

Eric is giving a speech in his art history course he has carefully prepared his presentation and plants of the liver it from a brief side of notecards what kind of delivery is Erik using

Extremporaneius

Everything a speaker says is filtered through a listeners

Frame of reference

Language helps to shape our sense of reality by

Giving meaning to events

What is the first step in the communication process

Having an idea to communicate

An informal communication setting

Includes a conversation with family and friends

Using evidence in a persuasive speech can

Increase the speakers credibility

While working on the body of your speech, you see the need to let the audience know what the upcoming sub points will be you decide to add an

Internal preview

Communication between two or more people

Interpersonal

When selecting fonts for a visual aid you should usually use

No more than two fonds

To inform my audience how to make genuine French croissant's is a specific purpose statement for what speech

Process

When Tammy introduced the new university president to a group of distinguished alumni, she calls her remarks by saying "you folks are really going to like this new prez" Afterword the event organizer told Tammy that in the future she should use more formal language when speaking on such an occasion which of the following statements best describes Tammy'a error.

She did not use language appropriately

Good speech delivery

Sounds conversational even though it has been rehearsed

What is the first step to improving your listening skills

There are two orders of raptors - Falconiformes and strigiforms

What organizational pattern would probably be most effective for arranging the main points of the speech with the central idea: estate taxes should be retained because the preserve opportunity for all, because their illumination would increase the national deficit, and because they are consistent with American values of fairness and justice

Topical

When giving an informative speech you should take special care to

Translate technical information into every day language

Outlining is important to public speaking because an outline hopes you judge whether

Your main points are properly balanced