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Sarah Schwartz Speech Class Final
Kansas State Honors Speech
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Undergraduate 1
05/06/2009

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Support Materials
Definition
things like: narratives, descriptions, explanations, definitions, and examples that help solidify your argument.
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Thesis
Definition
The most general claim of your speech
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Main points
Definition
The main subdivision of your thesis
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Supporting Claims
Definition
Subdivisions of the main points
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Opener
Definition
Primary goal is draw people into the speech. Want to arouse things in the audience as to keep their attention throughout
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Introduction transition
Definition
1) the general background about the topic such as history, explanations, and definitions 2)the relevance to the audience 3) The background of the speaker
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Plan of Speech
Definition
Where you state the thesis and preview the main points
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Conclusion
Definition
Mirror image of the intro. Repeat thesis and main points.
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Internal transition
Definition
Provide "up-to-dates" with where you are in the speech and reviews old information. Comes between main point.
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Summary
Definition
Run through of the main point
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Preview
Definition
show what will be discussed in the upcoming main point
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Extemporaneous speaking
Definition
Learning a speech by talking yourself through it several times
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Memory-enhancing variables
Definition
1) motivations to remember information 2) the nature of the information to be remembered 3) the understanding of the meaning and relationship of the info 4)repetition and rehearsal of the info.
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Memory-enhancing strategies
Definition
1) use both extrinsic and intrinsic motivations to memorize 2) Choose vivid language that emphasizes the dramatic and/or vital nature of what is to be learned 3) Use Humor or entertaining strategies 4) Make the content meaningful 5) point out and/or create associations 6) Incorporate repetition, audience participation and practice
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Extrinsic Rewards
Definition
An actual external reward as in praise or a prize
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Intrinsic Rewards
Definition
reward that gives someone internal satisfaction
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Self-evident claims
Definition
claims that are acceptable because of the meaning of the words in the claim, not because of the way things are in the world
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Empirical claims
Definition
Claims that require evidence. (observation, analysis)
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Direct observation
Definition
Appeals to a listeners senses to make a claim acceptable.
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Testimony
Definition
A statement of fact or opinion, given by a speaker or someone else , which serves as the basis foe belief.
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Expert opinion
Definition
The word of someone who should no what they are talking about. Often on issues where there is not a clear answer
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Statistics
Definition
numbers produced from data that has been organized and analyzed, and the number either summarizes the data or describes relationships among the data.
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Factual data
Definition
Data produced from measurements, direct observation by an expert, or historical records
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Quantitative data
Definition
data based on quantity analysis
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Informative statements
Definition
"the even numbered interstates highways run east and west, while the old ones run north and south"
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Examples
Definition
I-35 is an example of an interstate that runs north and south
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Exhibits
Definition
like photos, artifacts, video or tape recording.
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Circumstantial evidence
Definition
consists of accompanying or attendant facts, events, or conditions that claim a point.
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Tests of Evidence
Definition
higher order beliefs that guide us in assessing the reliability of evidence.
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Hard Evidence
Definition
Evidence that is strong, uses claims that are more certainly true or false. (usually statistics or factual data)
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Soft Evidence
Definition
non-definitive answer, not a single right answer
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Bias
Definition
that she or he has a vested interest in establishing a particular point of view or obtaining a particular outcome.
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What are the three parts of an introduction transition?
Definition
1) the general background about the topic such as history, explanations, and definitions 2)the relevance to the audience 3) The background of the speaker
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What are the three parts of an introduction?
Definition
1)Opener 2)introduction transition 3) statements of thesis and main points.
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What should be included in the plan of speech at the end of the introduction?
Definition
Thesis and preview of main points
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What should be included in the conclusion?
Definition
Thesis / main points / closing lines
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What are the 4 memory-enhancing variables?
Definition
1) motivations to remember information 2) the nature of the information to be remembered 3) the understanding of the meaning and relationship of the info 4)repetition and rehearsal of the info.
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What are the 6 memory-enhancing strategies?
Definition
1) use both extrinsic and intrinsic motivations to memorize 2) Choose vivid language that emphasizes the dramatic and/or vital nature of what is to be learned 3) Use Humor or entertaining strategies 4) Make the content meaningful 5) point out and/or create associations 6) Incorporate repetition, audience participation and practice
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What are 2 things to consider when deciding whether to accept someone as an “expert”?
Definition
1) education and 2) experience
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What are 3 conditions for a hypothesis?
Definition
1)The hypothesis should be phrased affirmatively 2)Must be consistent with the relevant circumstances 3)Should employ no more assumptions than necessary to explain the relevant circumstances
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What are the 6 tests of evidence?
Definition
1) is the evidence obviously relevant 2)are conditions favorable to making clear observations 3) are the testimony or circumstances represented accurately in the speech 4) is the source who is cited in position to know 5)is the evidence most recent 6)Are all the individual pieces of evidence consistent
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Case studies
Definition
the deliberate study of an individual
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Stories
Definition
Serve as an abstract way to support an idea or concept, have similarities with history and case study
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Plot
Definition
The organizational structure of a story. Happens over time.
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Resolution
Definition
What the story leads to in the end typically restates the message being put across by the whole story.
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Setting
Definition
The time and place in which the story is taking place.
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Histories
Definition
Shows the events of a person and how they formed. Can use opinion and different points of view
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Essential Narrative Elements
Definition
movement through time and change
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Complications
Definition
The building up of small events or things that thicken the story line
Characters- Entities that make up the stories. Can include places or organizations, or objects depending on how the speaker portrays them
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Bookend Stories
Definition
Same story is used in both the introduction and conclusion.
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Descriptive Definitions
Definition
Uses the established and conventional definition of the word.
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Classification
Definition
Putting the term into broader categories then specifying until you have what it is.
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Non-exemplars
Definition
Examples of what a term is not.
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Prescriptive definitions
Definition
Created for brand new terms, prescribed to the word.
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Exemplars
Definition
A model and a perfect example of
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Sensory Examples
Definition
Example that allows the audience to use its senses.
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Same-class Comparison
Definition
Comparison in which, at first glance, items seem similar or alike.
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Types of Comparison speeches
Definition
Explanation of complex ideas / explain common experiences in a new way / to assist the audience in making choices.
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Time Order
Definition
Organizing something by time.
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Sensory Categories
Definition
Organizing by using the senses to break something down
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Spatial Categories
Definition
Something that represents a physical or geographical category or organization.
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Ladder of Abstraction
Definition
Going from an abstract idea to a concrete thing.
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Comparative Language
Definition
Used to condense or simplify complex ideas or plans we have.
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Physical properties
Definition
Describe something using only the physical characteristics
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Different Class Comparison
Definition
Comparison in which things initially seem different when viewed as a whole.
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Organizational Pattern for Comparison speeches
Definition
Two ways are: divided in which you explain one and then the other and alternating where you go back and forth between the two.
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Premise
Definition
A claim that provides a reason for accepting another claim.
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Conclusion
Definition
A claim that is implied or follows from the premises.
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Inference
Definition
When a conclusion is drawn from one or more premises
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Premise indicators
Definition
words like: after all / and / by contrast / now / nevertheless / since
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Conclusion Indicators
Definition
Words like: Consequently / Therefore / The point is / So
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Data
Definition
informative claims that provide the basis for the conclusion.
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Warrant
Definition
A claim that explains the connection of the data to the conclusion.
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Warrant Qualifier
Definition
Indicates the degree of support for the conclusion. Certainly / presumably / likely / possibly
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Serial Argument
Definition
An argument in which the conclusion for one argument becomes a premise for another.
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Linked Argument
Definition
An argument that uses several reasons to support the same main conclusion.
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Deductive reasoning
Definition
Employ a form of reasoning that strictly follows the rules of logic and, as a result, the premises prove the conclusion.
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Inductive reasoning
Definition
we sort out evidence from past experience to reason about some new situation.
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Validity
Definition
when it is not possible that the premises are true and the conclusion is false.
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Soundness
Definition
Is an argument that has premises that are actually true and a conclusion that follows necessarily from the premises.
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Casual Argument
Definition
arguments that have warrants that assert the existence of a relationship between two or more events such that one event leads to another.
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Sign Argument
Definition
The presence of one event is used to indicate the presence of some condition.
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Argument by inductive generalization
Definition
A generalization is made from a subset of a population, called a sample, to the whole of a population.
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Argument by Analogy
Definition
Proceeds from the similarity of two or more objects in one or more features to their similarity in some additional feature.
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Necessary Condition
Definition
A is a necessary cause of B, if without A, B does not occur
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Sufficient Condition
Definition
A is a sufficient cause of B, if whenever A occurs, B occurs.
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Parts, whole, and their relationship
Definition
An organizational type where you focus on parts to describe and explain the whole.
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Argument
Definition
a disagreement or quarrel between among people / something in which reasons are given for some issue
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Differentiation
Definition
how it is different from, or not like, other objects of the same class
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Secondary Definition
Definition
Further defining a word by defining the terms parts or sub-categories.
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Concrete, specific language
Definition
Describing something using well defined, solid terms.
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Abstract, general language
Definition
Describing something using very vague/broad terms.
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Characters
Definition
Entities that make up the stories. Can include places or organizations, or objects depending on how the speaker portrays them
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