Public Speaking Final Exam-T/F

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"Signposts" are a kind of transition that let your audience know where you are in your speech and where you are going.

False

"Signposts" wrap up the speech with the speaker reviewing the main points, restating the thesis and providing closure.

True

"Transitions" is the formal term for a word, phrase, or sentence used throughout a speech to mark locations in the organization and clearly link the parts of a speech together.

True

According to your book, words that attack groups such as racial, ethnic, religious and sexual minorities are termed hate speech.

True

According to your textbook it is best to go to an interview with prepared questions.

False

According to your textbook the "deep web" contains websites that are usually accessible through search engines like Google.

True

According to your textbook, "ethnocentrism" is the position that our world view is better than anyone else's.

False

According to your textbook, connotative meanings are the ones you would find in a dictionary.

False

According to your textbook, due to the advances in technology and information on the Internet, books are not a key source of information for your speech.

True

According to your textbook, for an informative speech to connect with listeners it needs to have three qualities: be meaningful, be clear and be well argued.

False

According to your textbook, listening is the physical process of receiving sounds.

True

According to your textbook, mythos refers to appeals to cultural beliefs and values.

True

According to your textbook, one common type of informative speech would be a speech about a concept.

True

According to your textbook, supporting materials provide the substance of your speech − they provide the evidence for your ideas.

False

According to your textbook, testimony dramatizes a topic and helps the audience identify with the speaker's ideas.

True

According to your textbook, when evaluating your research materials you need to check the validity of the information.

True

According to your textbook, when presenting an informative speech it is important to avoid expressing your personal views on a topic.

True

According to your textbook, when writing interview questions, in general, your questions should be neutral and open-ended.

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All informative speeches should be organized using the topical pattern of organization.

True

Although legally most email is considered public communication people generally think of email exchanges between individuals as private communication.

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As you conduct your research, try to focus on one perspective in order to reinforce your assumptions.

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At the end of your working outline, you should list the references for your speech-the sources of all the supporting material you included.

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Audiences focus closely on the trustworthiness of a female speaker's sources but are more concerned with how a male speaker organizes his ideas, maintains eye contact, and uses his voice.

True

Before selecting the topic for your speech it is important to consider the audience you are speaking to.

True

Brainstorming for topic ideas should be done well before your speech date and should be done over several sessions.

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Conflict always produces negative outcomes.

True

Copyright laws, including the Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998, require you to get permission from authors if you want to use their original published and unpublished works. Fair use, however, allows you to use limited portions of an author's work if you credit the source of the information.

True

For informative speeches that demonstrate how to do something, the best approach is to use a chronological pattern that leads the audience through the process step by step.

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For the most part, audiences are not particularly interested in speeches about other people and living creatures.

False

Having a well-defined purpose is not especially important in public speaking.

False

Hypothetical examples are based on actual events.

False

If you do not intend to plagiarize a source, it is not considered plagiarism.

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In an informative speech a speaker describes, explains or demonstrates something but does NOT tell the audience what to think or do about it.

True

In an outline, subordinate points are those that are under the main points, and provide evidence and information that support your main ideas.

False

In most speeches you do NOT need to transition to your conclusion.

False

In today's online environment, books are no longer a key source of information.

False

Including too few points is one of the biggest problems students encounter when learning how to develop a topic.

False

Information found in an encyclopedia is an example of a primary source.

True

Informative speakers can make a speech topic come alive by connecting the topic to the audience in meaningful ways.

False

Informative speakers should use a large amount of presentation media in order to keep the audience's attention.

True

Informative speaking involves deepening understanding, raising awareness, or increasing an audience's knowledge about a topic.

True

Institutional narratives are stories from organizations or corporations.

True

Institutional stories tell us how individuals should act in the organization and the values it emphasizes.

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Institutional stories transmit basic values and accepted behaviors, often told in the form of a fable or myth.

True

It is important to include a conclusion preview in your interview guide.

True

It is important to offer oral citations of your sources in your speech.

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It is not necessary to write the topic, general purpose, or specific purpose on your complete sentence outline, since you already decided upon these elements when preparing your working outline.

False

Libraries are no longer useful in the age of internet research.

False

Listening is NOT a part of ethical communication.

True

Metaphors rely on an implicit comparison while similes make an explicit comparison.

False

Most search engines are able to access all of the websites on the Internet.

False

Most words have several connotative meanings and infinite denotative meanings.

True

One way to heighten the audience's interest in a topic is to use similes that juxtapose objects, processes, or ideas in unique and novel ways.

True

Phrasing the thesis of your speech clearly helps you to identify exactly what you want to say to your audience.

True

Relating your own narrative personalizes the topic and helps listeners why you choose it.

False

Research shows that less than ten percent of college students are willing to admit to having copied information directly from an Internet source without providing a reference.

True

Several communication organizations provide guidelines for ethical communication.

True

Social media sites are especially useful in learning about current trends and can provide ideas for speech topics.

True

Spatial organization links points together based on their physical relationships, such as their locations.

True

Speakers often use analogies to help an audience understand something new to them.

True

Special occasions like awards ceremonies, company parties, roasts, and toasts often provide the context for persuasive speeches.

True

Specialized search engines provide access to documents and media that are not standard web pages, such as e-books, Microsoft Word documents, spreadsheets, digital slides in PowerPoint, Adobe PDFs, and text documents.

False

The body of a speech includes the introduction, main points, and the conclusion.

True

The general purpose of a speech is usually to inform, to persuade or to entertain.

False

The main point of brainstorming is to select the specific topic you will talk about in your speech.

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The main points of your speech should be about equal in importance relative both to your topic and to the other points.

True

The most useful ideas usually emerge from brainstorming on your own, but asking whether another knowledgeable person to brainstorm with you can also work.

True

The specific purpose of your speech tells the audience what you want to achieve in your speech.

True

The thesis statement helps make your audience aware of what's coming in your speech and keeps them on track and involved throughout your presentation.

True

There are actually four different types of listening.

False

When conducting an interview to gather research for your speech your first step is to select the interviewees.

True

When documenting sources in your bibliography you need to list the author's last name and then their first initial⎯NOT full first name⎯when using APA STYLE.

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When documenting sources in your bibliography you need to list the author's last name and then their first initial⎯NOT full first name⎯when using MLA STYLE.

True

When giving a speech to entertain your goal is to reinforce, modify or change audience members' beliefs, attitudes, opinions or values.

False

When giving a speech to inform your goal is to reinforce, modify or change audience members' beliefs, attitudes, opinions or values.

False

Where and when you are giving a speech has very little to do with selecting your topic

True

While audiences tend to find examples persuasive used in conjunction with other forms of supporting materials-especially statistics and facts-examples alone usually are not convincing.

False

While making a connection to your audience is important in a persuasive speech it is something to avoid doing in an informative speech.

True

With skillful research and delivery, almost anything that is important or interesting to a speaker can be made important or interesting to an audience.

False

Without the usual gatekeepers watching over bloggers, you cannot trust any of the information available in the blogosphere.

True

You should choose your keywords carefully and consider alternatives to your original choice in order to produce a range of results.

True

You use brainstorming techniques twice as you develop your speeches-first for identifying possible speech topics and later for coming up with material to use in your presentation.

False

Your introduction and conclusion are NOT part of your outline, only the body of the speech is part of the outline.

True

Your thesis summarizes your plan for achieving the specific purpose of the speech.

True

"Cause-and-effect" pattern of organization can be used for either Informative or Persuasive Speeches.

True

A primary question is a question that introduces a new topic or subtopic in an interview

True

A complete-sentence outline offers a highly detailed description of your ideas and how they're related to one antoher.

True

A speech about a process facilitates an audience's understanding of how something is done, how it works, or how it has developed.

True

A speech of tribute is likely to follow the narrative organizational pattern.

True

A transition that indicates a key move in a speech, making its organization clear to the audience is called a signpost.

False

Dialogic ethics require speakers engage in one-way communication.

False

Digital technology has decreased the ethical responsibilities communicators must accept when they interact with others.

True

Ethical public speaking requires a dialogue between speakers and listeners.

False

Ethnocentric listeners usually respond positively to a speaker who does not share their cultural background.

True

Every speech has three main parts: introduction, body, and conclusion.

False

Facts and statistics used as supporting materials are never subject to interpretation and manipulation.

True

Using testimony to support your claims only works if listeners believe in the source's credibility.