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(c) Second Quarter Final Study Guide Flashcards

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Public Communications

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One person speaking to many with limited feedback.
The first tasks in preparing your speech are to choose and develop your topic

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Guidelines for Choosing a Topic

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  • Choose a topic early
  • Choose a topic that interests you
  • Choose a topic that you know something about
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Three Basic General Purposes for Speaking

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  • To Entertain
  • To Inform
  • To Persuade
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To Entertain

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  • Basic Purpose for Speaking
  • Relax an audience by providing them with a pleasant listening experience
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To Inform

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  • Basic Purpose for Speaking
  • To enlighten your audience by teaching them something
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To Persuade

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  • Basic Purpose for Speaking
  • To move your audience toward a new attitude or behavior
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Eulogy

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A speech of praise that is delivered in honor or commemoration of someone living or deceased
- Commends or lifts up the finer qualities and characteristics of someone. Not ment to dwell on shortcomings or mistakes

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Funeral Celebrant

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An individual who personalizes and designs meaningful funerals or tributes

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Purpose Statement

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A complete sentence that describes what you want your speech to accomplish. Not delivered to your audience

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Thesis/Thematic Statement

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The central idea of your speech, usually found in the first paragraph. Delivered to your audience

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The Basic Structure of a Speech

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Introduction
Body
Conclusion

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Three components in analyzing the speaking situation

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The speaker
The audience
The occasion

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Analysis of the speaker (self-analysis)

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  • Your purpose for speaking (what I want to accomplish)
  • Your feelings about yourself in the specific speaking situation
  • Your unique knowledge and experience
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Analyis of the Audience

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  • Audience type (captive or volunteer)
  • Audience purpose for gathering
  • Demographics
  • Attitudes, beliefs, values
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Analysis of the Occasion

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  • Time: space in time, amount of time to speak, time of day
  • Space: surroundings, physical space
  • Audience Expectations: the speech should fit the occasion
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Gathering Information for Your Speech
Research Resources

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Library and Library Personnel
Reference Works
Periodicals
Databases
Personal Observations
Surveys
Interviews
Electronic Media/Audio Visuals

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Outline

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A planned sequence for reaching the goals of a speech

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Patterns/Ways of Organizing Your Speech Points

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Time Pattern
Space Pattern
Topic Pattern
Problem-Solution Pattern

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Time Pattern

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  • Ways of Organizing Your Speech Points
  • Periods of time, chronology, or arranging according to steps of a process
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Space Pattern

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  • Ways of Organizing Your Speech Points
  • According to area (ex. east to west)
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Topic Pattern

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  • Ways of Organizing Your Speech Points
  • Based on types or categories
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Problem-Solution Pattern

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  • Ways of Organizing Your Speech Points
  • States what is wrong and proposes a way to improve
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Four Main Functions of the Introduction

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  • To capture the attention of the audience
  • To preview the main points
  • To set the mood or tone of your speech
  • To demonstrate the importance of the topic to the audience
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Main Functions of the Conclusion

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  • Review the thesis
  • Summarize the main points
  • Make effective final remarks
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During the conclusion of your speech your audience will tend to…

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  • Listen more carefully as your speech draws to a close
    Consider what you say at the end of your speech is important
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Types of Supporting Material

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  • Verbal Support : analogies, compare/contrast, anecdotes, examples, testimony, quotes, stats
  • Visual Support: visual aids
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Rules /Guidelines for Visual Aids

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  • Practice before giving speech
  • Simplicity, size, appropriateness, reliability, attractiveness
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Visual Aids Should…

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  • Enhance understanding
  • Add visual variety
  • Help the message have a lasting impact
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Types of Delivery

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Extemporaneous
Impromptu
Manuscript
Manuscript
Memorized

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Extemporaneous

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  • Types of Delivery
  • A speech planned in advance but presented in a direct, conversational manner
  • Recommended for the inexperienced speaker
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Impromptu

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  • Types of Delivery
  • A speech given without any preparation and on the spur of the moment; on the top of one’s head
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Manuscript

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  • Types of Delivery
  • A speech that is read word-for-word from a prepared text
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Memorized

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  • Types of Delivery
  • A speech that is learned and delivered by rote and without a written text
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Visual Aspects of Delivery

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Appearance, posture, and facial expressions

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Two Rules of Public Speaking/Presentations that Help Overcome Nervousness

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  • Preparation: rehearse
  • Practice: analysis of speaker, audience, occasion, create an outline, develop visual and verbal support
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Two Types of Stage Fight

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  • Debilitative: an intense level of anxiety resulting in poor performance
  • Facilitative: a moderate level of anxiety that can help improve a speaker’s performance
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Anecdote

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A story or illustration

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Attending

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The process of focusing on certain stimuli from the environment

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Attitude

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A predisposition to respond to an idea, person, or thing favorably or unfavorably

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Audience Types

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Apathetic Audience
Friendly Audience
Hostile Audience
Neutral Audience

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Auditory Aspects of Delivery

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Articulation
Pitch
Rate
Volume

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Comparison/Contrast

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Demonstrate similarities and differences

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Concise

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To be clear and brief

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Conclusion

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The final structure of the speech, in which the main points are reviewed and final remarks are made to motivate the audience to act, or help the listeners remember key ideas

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Credibility

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The believability of a speaker or other source of information

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Demographics

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Audience characteristics that can analyzed statistically, such as age, gender, education, group membership, and so on

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Evaluative Listening

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Listening in which the goal is to judge the quality or accuracy of the speaker’s remarks

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Testimony

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Type of supportive material
- Quoting a famous person or expert in the field

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Specific Purpose

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The precise effect that a speaker want to have on an audience, expressed in the form of a purpose statement

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Rhetorical Question

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A question that does not have to be answered by the audience

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Introduction

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The first structural unit of the speech, in which the speaker captures the attention of the audience and previews the main points to be covered

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Faulty Listening Behaviors

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Ambushing
Defensive Listening
Insensitive Listening
Insulated Listening
Pseudolistening
Selective Listening
Stage Hogging

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Ambushing

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  • Type of Faulty Listening Behavior
  • A style in which the receiver listens carefully to gather information to use in an attack on the speaker
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Defensive Listening

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  • Type of Faulty Listening Behavior
  • Taking innocent comments as personal remarks
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Insensitive Listening

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  • Type of Faulty Listening Behavior
  • Failure to recognize the thoughts or feelings that are not directly expressed by the speaker, instead accepting the speaker’s words at face value
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Insulated Listening

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  • Type of Faulty Listening Behavior
  • A style in which the receiver ignores undesirable remarks
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Pseudolistening

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  • Type of Faulty Listening Behavior
  • Giving the appearance of listening
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Selective Listening

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  • Type of Faulty Listening Behavior
  • Responding only to the parts of a speaker’s remarks that interest you, rejecting everything else
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Stage Hogging

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  • Type of Faulty Listening Behavior
  • Not listening because he/she is only interested in what he/she has to say

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