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1
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Having resources, information, and attitudes that lead to action to achieve a desired goal

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Empowerment

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The creative process of developing your ideas

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Invention

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How the speech is organized

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Arrangement

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Your choice of words

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Style

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The extent to which you use notes or rely on your memory to share your ideas

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Memory

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The nonverbal expression of your message

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Delivery

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The delivery of an already famous speech

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Declamation

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The expression of emotion through posture, movement, gesture, facial expressions, and voice

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Elocution

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What is the central concept of the speech making process model?

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To consider the audience during your speech. At any point during your speech you may learn something new about the audience and may need to revise your speech.

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An example of a topic:

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British TV shows that inspired American TV shows

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11
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An example of a general purpose:

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To inform

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An example of a specific purpose:

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At the end of my speech, the audience will be able to identify three classic British TV shows that inspired American versions

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An example of a specific purpose:

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At the end of my speech, the audience will be able to identify three classic British TV shows that inspired American versions

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An example of a central idea:

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The Office, Antiques Roadshows, and Undercover Bass began as British TV programs that have become successful American TV shows.

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15
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Which amendment to the United States Constitution protects free speech?

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First Amendment

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The beliefs, values, and moral principles by which people determine what is right or wrong

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Ethics

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17
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Three criteria for speaking ethically:

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  1. Have a clear responsible goal
  2. Use sound evidence and reasoning
  3. Be sensitive to and tolerant of differences, be honest, do not plagiarize
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The spoken presentation of source information, including the author, title, and year of publication

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Oral citation

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The print presentation of source information, including the author, title, and year of publication, usually formatted according to a conventional style guide

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Written citation

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20
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Five listening components of a good listener:

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  1. Selecting
  2. Attending
  3. Understanding
  4. Remembering
  5. Responding
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To single out a message from several competing messages

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Selecting

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To focus on incoming information for further processing

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Attending

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23
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To assign meaning to the information to which you attend

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Understanding

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To recall ideas and information

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Remembering

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25
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To react with a chance in behavior to a speakers message

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Responding

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26
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Describe three ways to become a better listener:

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  1. Listen with your eyes as well as your ears
  2. Listen mindfully
  3. Listen skillfully
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27
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Someone who is comfortable listening to others express feelings and emotions

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Relational-oriented listener

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Someone who prefers information that is well organized, brief, and precise

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Task-orented listener

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29
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Someone who prefers messages that are supported with facts and details

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Analytical listeners

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30
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Someone who prefers to evaluate messages

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Critical listeners

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31
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What are the three metrics of effective feedback?

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Rhetorical criticism, rhetoric, symbols

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32
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Statistical information on population characteristics such as age, race, gender, sexual orientation, educational level, and religious views

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Audience demographics

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33
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What is the difference between an open-ended and a close-ended question?

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Getting information formally requires that you develop a carefully written survey or questionnaire. Informal is relying on inferences drawn from causal observations and conversations with other.

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34
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Questions that allow for unrestricted answers by not limiting answers to choices or alternatives

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Open ended questions

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35
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Questions that offer alternatives from which to choose, such as true or false, agree or disagree, or multiple choice

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Close ended questions

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36
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Give an open ended question example and a close ended question example:

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Open ended: What are your feelings about having high school health clinics dispense birth-control pills?

Close ended: Are you in favor of school-based health clinics dispensing birth-control pills to high school students? Yes or no

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37
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The culturally constructed and psychologically based perception of ones self as feminine or masculine

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Gender

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38
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A persons biological status of male or female, as reflected in his or her anatomy and reproductive system

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Sex

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A learned system of knowledge, behavior, attitudes, beliefs, values, and norms shared by a group of people

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Culture

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The portion of a persons cultural background that incudes such factors as nationality, religion, language, and ancestral heritage, which are shared by a group of people who also share a common geographic origin

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Ethnicity

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41
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A group of people with a common cultural history, nationality, or geographical location, as well as genetically transmitted physical characteristics

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Race

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42
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The assumption that ones own cultural perspectives and methods are superior to those of other cultures

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Ethnocentrism

43
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What are the three components of Socio-economic status?

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Income, occupation, education

44
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What are the three components of psychological audience analysis?

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Attitude, belief, value

45
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An individuals perception of what is true or false

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Attitude

46
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An individuals perception of what is true or false

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Belief

47
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Enduring concept of good and bad, right and wrong

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Value

48
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What are three of the four components of situational audience analysis?

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Time, size of audience, location

49
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What to do if your audience seems inattentive or bored

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Tell a story

50
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What to do if your audience seems confused or doesn’t seem to understand your point

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Phrase your information in a different way

51
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If your audience seems to be disagreeing with your message

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Provide additional evidence to support your point

52
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What are the six types of presentation aids?

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Images, text, video, audio, objects and models, people

53
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What are the two guidelines about how to use computer-generated presentation aids?

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  1. Identify practical applications of your message
  2. Maintain a conversational delivery
54
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What are the four guidelines for using presentation aids?

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  1. Keep them simple
    2.select the right presentation aid
  2. Do not use dangerous or illegal presentation aids
  3. Allow plenty of time to prepare your presentation aids
55
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The term Aristotle used to refer to a speakers credibility

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Ethos

56
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The term Aristotle used to refer to logic

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Logos

57
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The term Aristotle used to appeal to human emotion

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Pathos

58
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Persuasion that occurs when audience members critically examine evidence and argument

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Direct persuasion

59
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Persuasion that occurs as a result of factors peripheral to a speakers logic argument

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Indirect persuasion

60
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What are physiological needs?

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Most basic needs, we all have things like this that need to be met

61
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What are safety needs?

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We all need to feel loved and valued

62
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What are social needs?

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We all need to feel loved and valued

63
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What are self-esteem needs?

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We have a desire to think well of ourselves

64
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What are self-actualization needs?

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The need to achieve one’s highest potential

65
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What is it when listeners disagree with the speaker?

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Latitude of rejection

66
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When listeners are uncommitted or not sure how to respond

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Latitude of non commitment

67
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Listeners agree with the speakers

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Latitude of acceptance

68
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Knowing what the audience members view as desirable, good, and virtuous

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Positive emotion

69
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Seeking to motivate or persuade by threatening harm or danger unless action is taken to reduce the harm or danger

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Negative emotion

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A proposition focusing on whether something is true or false or whether it did or did not happen

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Proposition of fact

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A proposition calling for the listener to judge the worth or importance of something

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Proposition of value

72
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A proposition advocating a charge in a police, procedure, or behavior

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Proposition of policy

73
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Two elements to consider when selecting reasons and evidence to support your speech:

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Competence, trustworthiness

74
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Making a claim based on little evidence.

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Hasty generalization

75
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A link between premises and conclusion that depends on some imagined casual connection

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False cause

76
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A conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement

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Non-sequitur

77
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A claim that something is true because everyone believes it

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Bandwagon

78
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When irrelevant information is presented alongside reveled to information, distracting attention from the relevant information

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Red herring

79
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An argument that relies on the statement of a false authority figure, who is framed as a credible authority on the topic being discussed

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False or misplaced authority

80
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When it is attempted to make something appear simpler by ignoring certain relevant complexities

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Oversimplification

81
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When an arguments premises assume the truth of the conclusion instead of supporting it

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Begging the question

82
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An argument is constructed so as to imply the necessity of choosing one of only two alternatives

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Either-or

83
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When someone attacks the person instead of attacking his or her argument

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Ad hominem

84
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The impression of a speakers credibility that listeners have before the speaker starts a speech

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Initial credibility

85
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The perception of a speakers credibility that is formed during a speech

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Terminal credibility

86
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The final impression listeners have of a speakers credibility after a speech concludes

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Derived credibility

87
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Two examples of how you can establish credibility with your audience:

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  1. Make a good first impression
  2. Establish common ground with your audience
88
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Erasing that uses specific instances or examples to reach a general, probable conclusion

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Inductive reasoning

89
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Reasoning that moves from a general statement of principle to a specific, certain conclusion

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Deductive reasoning

90
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A three-part argument that consists of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion

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Syllogism

91
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Explain the three parts of syllogism:

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  1. Major premise- a general statement
  2. Minor premise- a specific statement about an example that is linked to the major premise
  3. Conclusion- the logical outcome of a deductive argument
92
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A speaker who gains control over others by using unethical emotional pleas and appeals to listeners prejudices

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Demagogue

93
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The sense of mental discomfort that prompts a person to change when new information conflicts with previously organized thought patterns

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Cognitive dissonance

94
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A speech that serves as information to the audience about the main speaker.

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Speech of introduction

95
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A speech that gives information to the audience about a nominee.

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Speech of nomination

96
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A speech that accompanies giving an award

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Award presentation

97
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Speech given by anyone who receives an award

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Speech of acceptance

98
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A brief salute to an occasion

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Toast

99
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Ridiculing or criticizing someone to honor them

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Roast

100
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Type of speech given when someone has died.

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Eulogy

101
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Given at a graduation or commencement ceremony

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Commencement address

102
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A speech given to celebrate some past even, usually included is a tribute to the person involved

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Commemorative address

103
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A speech given at the beginning of a meeting or conference.

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Keynote address

104
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Have funny subjects or humorous treatments of more serious subjects.

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Humorous speech/ speech to entertain

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