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Human Communication
Chapter Eleven Terms
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Communication
Undergraduate 1
11/21/2009

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Source Credibility
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The audience's perception of your effectiveness as a speaker.
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Competence
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Degree to which the speaker is perceived as skilled, reliable, experienced, qualified, authoritative, and informed; an aspect of credibility.
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Trustworthiness
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The degree to which the speaker is perceived as honest, fair, sincere, honorable, friendly, and kind; an aspect of credibility.
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Dynamism
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The extent to which the speaker is perceived as bold, active, energetic, strong, empathic, and assertive; an aspect of credibility.
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Common Ground
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Also known as coorientation, the degree to which the speaker's values, beliefs, attitudes, and interests are shared with the audience; an aspect of credibility.
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Sleeper effect
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A change of audience opinion caused by separation of the message content from its source over a period of time.
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Personal Experiance
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Use of your own life as a source of information.
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Search Engine
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A program on the internet that allows users to search for information.
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Bibliographic References
Definition
Complete citations that appear in the "references" or "work cited" section of your speech outline.
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Internal Referances
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Brief notations indicating a bibliographic reference that contains the details you are using in your speech.
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Verbal Citations
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Oral explanations of who the source is, how recent the information is, and what the source's qualifications are.
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Supporting Materials
Definition
Information you can use to substantiaite your arguments and to clarify your passion.
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Examples
Definition
Specific instances used to illustrate your point.
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Surveys
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Studies in which a limited number of questions are answered by a sample of the population to discover opinions on issues.
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Testimonial Evidence
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Written or oral staements of others' experience used by a speaker to substantiaite or clarify a point.
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Lay Testimony
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Statements made by an ordinary person that substantiate or support what you say.
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Expert Testimony
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Statements made by someone who has special knowledge or expertise about an issue or idea.
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Celebrity Testimony
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Statements made by a public figure who is known to the audience.
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Statistics
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Numbers that summarize numerical information or compare quantities.
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Analogy
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A comparison of things in some respects, especially in position or function, that are otherwise dissimilar.
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Explanation
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A clarification of what something is or how it works.
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Definitions
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Determinations of meaning through description, simplification, examples, analysis, comparison, explanation, or illustration.
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Plagiarism
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The intentional use of information from another source without crediting the source.
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Incremental Plagiarism
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The intentional or unintentional use of information from one or more sources without fully divulging how much information is directly quoted.
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Two-sided argument
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A source advocating one position presents an argument from the opposite viewpoint and then goes on to refute that argument.
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