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| The process of presenting a message to an audience |
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| the content of a speech and the mode of its delivery |
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| the visual and auditory means by which a message is transmitted from sender to receiver |
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| a listener or audience member |
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| physical sounds that interfere with communication |
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| physiological or psychological interference with communication |
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| verbal and nonverbal responses provided by an audience to a speaker |
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| the environment or situation in which a speech occurs |
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| the key focus of the content of a speech |
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| the overarching goal of a speech--to inform, persuade, or entertain |
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| statement of what you hope to accomplish |
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| one sentence summary of the speech content |
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| beliefs, values and moral principals by which people determine what is right and wrong |
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| sensitivity to feelings, needs, interests and backgrounds of others |
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| an audience's perception of a speaker as competent, knowledgeable, dynamic and trustworthy |
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| process by which receivers select, attend to, create meaning from, remember and respond to sender's messages |
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| single out a message from several competing messages |
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| to focus on incoming information for further processing |
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| to assign meaning to the info to which you attend |
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| to react with a change in behavior to a speaker's message |
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| people choose to listen to messages that affect their values, beliefs and well being |
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| people listen to what they hear or want to hear based on their frame of reference |
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| usually remember messages that affect their values, beliefs and well being |
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| preconceived opinions, attitudes, and beliefs about a person, place, thing or message |
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| fear of misunderstanding or misinterpreting the spoken messages of others |
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| evaluating the quality of information, ideas, and arguments presented by a speaker |
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| making judgements about the conclusions presented in what you see, hear and read |
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| something that has been proven to be true by direct observation |
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| the facts, examples, opinions and statistics that a speaker uses to support a conclusion |
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| statistical info about the age, race, gender, sexual orientation, educational level, and religious views of an audience |
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| questions that allow for unrestricted answers by not limiting answers to choices or alternatives |
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| questions that offer alternatives from which to choose, such as true/false, agree/disagree or multiple-choice questions |
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| the process of examining information about those who are expected to listen to a speech |
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| a creative problem-solving technique used to generate many ideas |
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| a story or anecdote that provides an example of an idea, issue, or problem a speaker is discussing |
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| 1-3 sentences said in passing to introduce/reinforce a point, or several piled on eachother to drive a point home |
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| extended example/illustration |
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| vivid illustration, detailed description |
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| hypothetical illustration |
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| create a scenario that relates to a general principle |
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| numerical data that summarize facts or samples |
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| when you quote/paraphrase someone |
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| quote/paraphrase a recognized authority in the field |
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| quote/paraphrase regular people who have experience with the topic |
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| organization of the natural divisions in a central idea according to recency, primacy, complexity, or the speaker's discretion |
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| chronological organization |
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| organization by time or sequence |
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| cause-effect organization |
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| organization focused on a situation and its causes or a situation and its effects |
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| organization based on location or direction |
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| anything tangible (drawings, charts, graphs, video images, photographs, sounds) that help communicate an idea to an audience |
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| small object that represents a larger object |
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| reading a speech from a written texts |
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| delivering a speech word for word from memory without using nots |
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| delivering a speech without advance preperation |
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| speaking from note cards or outline without memorizing the whole speech, or reading word for word |
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