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COMM 101
COMM 101
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Communication
Undergraduate 1
08/31/2011

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What's another word for the practice of Oratory?
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Rhetoric
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What is Rhetoric, or oratory and where did it first take hold?
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Rhetoric referrs to making effective speeches particularly those of a persuasive nature. It took hold in Greece in the fifth century BC.
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What are the name of public speaking areas in Athens, Rome, and now in the modern world?
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In athens it was known as Agora, in rome it was the Forum, and in the modern world it's known as a Public Forum
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What is Forensic oratory?
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It was the act of persuading jurors to vote in the favor of someone in a court case.
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What is speech called in legislative or political contexts?
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Deliberative speech
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What are speeches called that are given in ceremonies?
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Epideictic speech
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What are the canons of rhetoric?
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The five parts are Invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery
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What is invention related to speech?
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Adapting speech information to the audience in order to make your case
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What is arrangement in relation to speech?
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is organizing the speech in ways that are best suited to the topic and the audience.
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What is style in relation to speech?
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Is the way the speaker uses language to express the speech ideas.
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What is memory in relation to speech?
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Is the pratice of the speech until it can be artfully delivered.
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What is delivery in relation to speech?
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is the vocal and nonverbal behavior you use when speaking
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What is dyadic communication?
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is a form of communication between two people as in a conversation
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What is small group communication?
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invovles a small number of people who can see and speak directly with one another
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What is mass communication?
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occurs between a speaker and a large audience of unknown people. In mass communication the receivers of the message are not present with the speaker, or are part of such an immense crowd that there can be little or no interaction between speaker and listener.
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What is public speaking?
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a speaker delivers a message with a specific purpose to an audience of people who are present during the delivery of the speech
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What is a key feature of any type of communication?
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Sensitivity to the listeners.
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What is the Topic?
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something to speak about.
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What is audience analysis?
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a highly systematic process of getting to know your listeners relative to the topic and the speech occasion
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What are the steps in the speechmaking process?
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Select a topic, analyze the audience, determine the speech purpose, compose a thesis statement, develop the main points, gather supporting material, separate the speech into major parts, outline the speech, consider presentation aids, practice delivering the speech
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What are the three general speech purposes?
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To inform, to presuade, or to mark a special occasion
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What is a specific purpose?
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a declaritive sentence stating what you expect the speech to accomplish
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What is a thesis statement
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Clearly epxresses the central idea of your speech. The thesis statement concisely identifies for your audience in a single sentence, what the speech is about.
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What are the main points?
Definition
Two or three primary pieces of knowlede or key arguments in favor of your position.
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What is supporting material?
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illustrates the main points by clarifying, elaborating, and verifying the speaker's ideas.
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What is the introduction?
Definition
serves to introduce the topic and the speaker and to alert audience members to your specific speech purpose
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What is the body of a speech?
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contains the speech's main points and subpoints, all of which support the speech's thesis.
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What is the conclusion of a speech?
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restates the speech purpose and reiterates how the main points confirm it.
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what are coordinate points in an outline?
Definition
more often referred to as main pionts, are of equal importance and are indicated by their parallel alignment.
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What are subordinate points?
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also called sub points, are given less weight than the main points they support and are identified in outlines by their placement to the right of the points they support.
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What are presentation aids?
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can be as simple as writing the definition of a word on a blackboard, or as involved as a multimedia slide show. helps your audience understand your points.
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What is the source?
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The source or sender is the person who creates a message
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What is encoding?
Definition
The process of organizing the message, choosing words and sentence structure, and verbalizing the message. Transforming thoughts into messages and delivering it to and audience.
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Who is the reciever?
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The recipient of the source's message
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What is decoding?
Definition
the process of interpreting the message
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What is feedback?
Definition
The audience's response to a message
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What is audience perspective?
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Trying to determine the needs, attitudes, and values of your audience before you begin speaking.
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What is the message?
Definition
the content of the communication process; thoughts and ideas put into meaningful expression.
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What is a channel?
Definition
The medium through which the speaker sends a message
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What is noise?
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is any interference with the message
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What is shared meaning?
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it's the mutual understanding of a message between speaker and audience.
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what is rhetorical situation?
Definition
it's a circumstance that calls for a public response
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When is a speech fully complete?
Definition
When it's effects have been assessed and you decide wheather you have accomplished what you sset out to do.
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What is culture?
Definition
The language beliefs values norms behaviors and even material objects...culture is everything around us.
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What is Ethnocentrism?
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The belief that the ways of our own culture are superior to those of other cultures
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What is cultural intelligence?
Definition
being skilled and flexible about understanding a culture learning more about it from your ongoing interaction with it, and gradually reshaping your thinking to be more sympathetic to the culture and to be more skilled and appropriate when interacting with others from the culture.
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