Speech
Speakers often use analogues to help an audience understand something new to them. T or F
True
Special occasions like award ceremonies, company parties, roast, and toast often provide the context for persuasive speeches.
True
Two primary task in the opening portion of an interview are
To establish rapport and provide orientation
"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 the speech together. T or F
True
A complete sentence outlines offers a highly detailed description of your ideas and how they related to one another. T or F
True
A speech about a process facilitates and audiences understanding of how something is done, how it works, and how it has developed. T of F
True
A speech of tribute is likely to follow the narrative organizational pattern. T or F
True
A transition that indicates a key move in the speech, making its organization clear to the audience is called a sign post. T or F
True
According to your book, words that attack groups such as racial, ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities are termed hate speech. T or F
True
According to your text book, for an informative speech to connect with listeners it needs to have three qualities: be meaningful, be clear, and be well argued. T of F
True
According to your textbook it is best to go to an interview with prepared questions. T or F
True
According to your textbook, ethnocentrism is the position that our worldview is better than everyone else's. T or F
True
Your thesis summarizes your plan for achieving the specific purpose of the speech. T or F
True
According to your textbook, mythos refers to appeals to cultural beliefs and values. T or F
True
According to your textbook, one common type of informative speech would be a speech about a concept. T or F
True
According to your textbook, supporting materials provide the substance of your speech they provide the evidence for your ideas. T or F
True
According to your textbook, when evaluating your research materials you need to check the validity of the information. T or F
True
According to your textbook, when presenting an informative speech it is important to avoid expressing your personal views on the topic. T or F
True
According to your textbook, when writing interview questions, in general, your questions should be neutral and open ended. T or F
True
Although legally most email is considered public communication, people generally think of email exchanges between individuals as private communication. T or F
True
And informative speech a speaker describes, explains or demonstrate some thing, but does not tell the audience what to think or do about it. T or F
True
Audiences focus closely on the trustworthiness of a female speaker sources that are more concerned this is how a male speaker organizes his ideas, maintains eye contact, and uses his voice. T or F
True
Before selecting the topic for your speech it is important to consider the audience you were speaking to. T or F
True
Brainstorming for topic ideas should be done well before your speech day and should be done over several sessions. T or F
True
Cause-and-effect pattern of organization can be used for either informative or persuasive speeches. T or F
True
Having a well-defined purpose it's not especially important in public speaking. T or F
False
Hypothetical examples are based on actual events. T or F
False
If you do not intend to plagiarize a source, it is not considered plagiarism. T or F
False
In most speeches you do not need to transition to your conclusion. T or F
False
In today's online environment, books are no longer a key source of information. T or F
False
Including two few points is one of the biggest problems students encounter when learning how to develop a topic. T or F
False
Information found in an encyclopedia is an example of a primary source. T or F
False
Informative speakers should use a large amount of presentation media in order to keep the audiences attention. T or F
False
Institutional stories transmit basic values and excepted behaviors, often told in the form of a fable or myth. T or F
False
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. T or F
False
Libraries are no longer useful in the age of Internet research. T or F
False
Listening is not a part of ethical communication. T or F
False
Most search engines are able to access all of the websites only Internet. T or F
False
Most words have several connotative meanings and infinite denotative meanings. T or F
False
Research shows that less than 10% of college students are willing to mitt to having copied information directly from an Internet source without providing a reference. T or F
False
Sign posts wrap up the speech with the speaker reviewing the main points, restating the thesis, and providing closure. T or F
False
Specialize search engines provide access to documents and media that are not standard webpages, such as e-books, Microsoft Word documents, spreadsheets, digital slides in PowerPoint, Adobe PDF, and text documents. T or F
False
The body of a speech includes the introduction, main points, and the conclusion. T or F
False
The main point of brainstorming is to select the specific topic you will talk about in your speech. T or F
False
When conducting an interview together research for your speech your first step is to select the interviewees. T or F
False
When documenting sources in your bibliography you need to list the authors last name and then their first initial- NOT full first name- when using MLA style. T or F
False
When giving a speech to inform your goal is to reinforced, modify or change audience members beliefs, attitudes, opinions or values. T or F
False
Where and when you were giving a speech has very little to do with selecting the topic. T or F
False
While making a connection to your audience is important in a persuasive speech it is some thing to avoid doing an informative speech. T or F
False
Without the usual gate keepers watching over bloggers, you cannot trust any of the information available in the blogosphere. T or F
False
Your introduction and conclusion or not part of your outline, only the body of the speech is part of the outline. T or F
False
Spatial organization links points together based on their physical relationships, such as their locations. T or F
True
Hypothetical examples are based on
Conjecture
Which of the following types of narratives best represents mythos?
Cultural stories
According to your text book, testimony dramatizes a topic and helps the audience identify with the speakers ideas.
False
According to your textbook the deep web contains websites that are usually accessible through search engines like Google. T or F
False
According to your textbook, connotative meanings are the ones she would find in a dictionary. T or F
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. T or F
False
According to your textbook, listening is the physical process of receiving sounds. T or F
False
All informative speeches should be organized using the topical pattern of organization. T or F
False
As you conduct your research, try to focus on one perspective in order to reinforce your assumptions. T or F
False
At the end of your working outline, you should list the references for your speech the sources of all the supporting material you included. T or F
False
Conflict always produces negative outcomes. T or F
False
Dialogic ethics require speakers engage in one-way communication. T or F
False
Digital technology has decreased the ethical responsibilities communicators must except when they interact with others. T or F
False
Ethnocentric listeners usually respond positively to a speaker who does not share their cultural backgrounds. T or F
False
Facts and statistics used as supporting materials are never subject to interpretation and manipulation. T or F
False
For the most part, audiences are not particularly interested in speeches about other people and living creatures. T or F
False
Copyright laws, including the digital millennium copyright act of 1998, require you to get permission from authors if you want to use their original published and unpublished works. There are use, however, allows you to use limited portions of an authors work if you credit the source of the information. T or D
True
Ethical public speaking requires a dialogue between speakers and listeners. T or F
True
Every speech has three main parts: introduction, body, and conclusion. T or F
True
For informative speech is 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. T or F
True
In an outline, subordinate points are those that are under the main points, and provide evidence and information that support your main ideas. T or F
True
Informative speakers can make a speech topic, live by connecting the topic to the audience in meaningful ways. T or F
True
Informative speaking involves deepening understanding, raising awareness, or increasing an audience is knowledge about the topic. T or F
True
Institutional narratives are stories from organizations or corporations. T or F
True
Institutional stories tell us how individuals should act in the organization and the values and emphasizes. T or F
True
It is important to include a conclusion preview in your interview guide. T or F
True
It is important to offer oral citations of your sources in your speech. T or F
True
Metaphors rely on an implicit comparison well similes make an explicit comparison. T or F
True
One way to hide in the audience his interest in the topic is he use similes that juxtapose objects, processes, her ideas in unique and novel ways. T or F
True
Phrasing the thesis of your speech clearly helps you to identify exactly what you want to say to your audience. T or F
True
Relating your own narrative personalizes the topic and helps listeners why you chose it. T or F
True
Several communication organizations provide guidelines for ethical communication. T or F
True
Sign post are kind of transition that let the audience know where you are in your speech and where you are going. T or F
True
Social media sites are especially useful in learning about current trends and can provide ideas for speech topics. T or F
True
The general purpose of a speech is usually to inform, to persuade, or to entertain. T or F
True
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. T or F
True
The primary question is a question that introduces a new topic or sub topic in an interview. T or F
True
The specific purpose of your speech tells the audience what you want to cheat in your speech. T or F
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. T or F
True
There are actually four different types of listening. T or F
True
Using testimony to support your claims only works is listeners believe in the sources credibility. T or F
True
When documenting sources in your bibliography you need to list the authors name and then their first initial-NOT full first name- when using APA style. T or F
True
When giving a speech to entertain your goal is to reinforce, modify or change audience members beliefs, attitudes, opinions or values. T or F
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. T or F
True
With skillful research in delivery, almost anything that is important or interesting to speak or can be made important or interesting to an audience. T or F
True
You should choose your keywords carefully and consider alternatives to your original choice in order to produce a range of results. T or F
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. T or F
True