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Debate/Speech
Undergraduate 1
09/25/2009

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public speaking
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Public Speaking features communication between a speaker and an audience.

*It's audience centered.
*Emphasizes the spoken word.
*Usually a prepared presentation.
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rhetoric
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The craft of public speaking.
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extemporaneous
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Deliver a speech smoothly and confidently from a speaking outline outline without reading from it.
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Communication
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Encode
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Decode
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To interpret a message by making sense os a sorce's verbal and nonverbal symbols. (Performed by receiver)
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Noise
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feedback
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An audience's verbal and nonverbal responses to a source's message.
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rhetorical purpose
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A question that a speaker expects listeners to answer in their heads; used to capture an audiences attention and get them thinking about a speaker's topic.
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specific purpose
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A concise phrase consisting of the rhetorical purpose followed by the objective of a speech.
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thesis or central idea
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major points
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Key ideas that support a thesis and help an audience understand and remember what is most important about a speaker's topic; main points are supported by subpoints
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culture
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The values, traditions, and rules for living that are passed from generation to generation. Culture is learned, not innate, and pervades all aspects of a person's life.
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brainstorming
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A strategy for generating topic ideas in which a potential speaker lists every idea that comes to mind-without evaluating its merits-in order to develop a sizable list of ideas quickly.
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word association
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A strategy for generating topic ideas in which one idea leads to another
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mind mapping
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context
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rhetorical question
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transition
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ethics
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ethical absolutism
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situational ethics
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First Amendment
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defamation
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slander
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libel
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plagiarism
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paraphrase
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hasty generalization
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post hoc fallacy
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bandwagoning
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hearing vs listening
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comprehensive listening
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critical listening
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empathic listening
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appreciative listening
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demographics
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race
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ethnicity
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needs
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values
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attitudes
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audience analysis
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planned adaptation
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emergency adaptation
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reactive adaptation
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decentering
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expert definition
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etymological definition
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functional definition
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example
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analogy
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narrative
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expert testimony
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lay testimony
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quotation
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statistics
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facts
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