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First Final Flashcards

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What are the benefits of taking a public speak class?

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Communication skills are critical for intellectual development, career trajectory, and civic engagement

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What do employers say are the most important skills when hiring a potential employee? Explain why the skills are important.

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Great leaders must be able to communicate ideas effectively, they must be able to persuade, build support, negotiate and speak effectively in public. Communication skills are at eh top of the list. All of these things are needed in order to push forward

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Encoding

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refers to the process of taking an idea or mental image, associating that image into works, then speaking those words in order to convey a message

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Communicator

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refers to all people in the interaction or speech setting

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Message

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involves those verbal and nonverbal behaviors, enacted by communicators, that are interpreted with meaning by others

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Noise

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refers to anything that interferes with message transmission or reception

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Physiological Noise

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refers to bodily processes and states that interfere with a message

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Psychological Noise

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refers to mental states or emotional states that impede message transmission or reception

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Physical Noise

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the actual sound level in a room

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Cultural Noise

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message interference that results in differences in peoples world views

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World View

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overall framework through which an individual sees, things about, and interprets the world and interaction with it

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Epistemology

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the way we acquire knowledge and/or what counts as knowledge

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Ontology

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refers to out belief system, how we see the nature of reality or what we sees as true or false

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Axiology

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represents our value system, or what we see as right or wrong, good or bad, and fair or unfair

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Cosmology

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signifies the way that we see our relationship to the universe and to other people

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Praxeology

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denotes our preferred method of completing everyday tasks or our approach to solving problems

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Content

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where or when the speech or interaction takes place

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What is feedback? Why is it important to a speaker?

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the information we gain form our audience when they are listening and if they understand. It is important because a speaker wants to excite their audience or keep their attention to get the message thorough they are trying to send

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What is nonverbal communication?

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Nonverbal communication can be personal appearance, posture, gestures, and body movements. The way we use a space, and even the way a person smells

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What happens if your nonverbal messages conflict with your verbal messages?

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If there is conflict, people will generally believe the nonverbal portion of the message

21
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Know the speaking competencies.

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Useful Topic. Engaging Introduction. Well supported ideas. closure in conclusion. clear and vivid language.
suitable vocal expression. Corresponding nonverbal.
adapted to the audience. Adapted to the audience. adept use of visual aids. Convincing Persuasion.

22
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Understand what plagiarism is

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When one passes off another’s work as their own neglects to cite a source for their information

23
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Be able to explain why you should cite your sources of information

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It can loss in credibility to academic expulsion or job loss

24
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Be able to identify and write proper citations for outlines and speeches.

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You should cite any research or resources you get from book, diagrams, media interviewing, pretty much anything you get from someone else that isn’t your own words or work

25
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Know the responsible speech goals.

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Promote diversity. Use Inclusive language. Avoid hate speech. Employ respectful free speech.

26
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Where do audience centered speakers concentrate most of their energy?

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Getting their message across to their listeners

27
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What are some of the ways you can find our more information about your audience before a speech?

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Data sampling.
Situational Analysis.
Demographic Analysis.
Psychological Analysis. 
Multicultural Analysis. 
Interest and knowledge analysis.
28
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Attitude

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a learned disposition to respond in a consistently favorable or unfavorable manner with respect to a person, an object, or an event

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Value

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guiding belief that regulates our attitudes

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Beliefs

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principles or assumptions about the universe

31
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What is critical thinking?

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An active thinking in which we evaluate and analyze information in order to determine the best course of action.

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Why is it so important for a speaker to engage in critical thinking?

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It will help keep their speech valid and honest

33
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Know difference between being critical and critical thinking.

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When someone is being critical they are pointing out the negative in something, it is less about understanding and more about negative evaluating

34
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Books

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They can be enriched in information and data for a speech. It takes a while to read a book for a little research on a speech can be overwhelming

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Periodicals

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it can provide research sooner than a book would, can provide a wide array of knowledge and keeps readers up to date. Some of the content is for profit, so editors will edit it to appeal more to the audience

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Full-text database

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it can help you find aritcles from a different date or help you find research on your specific topic. You will sometimes have to look through different databases to find what you are looking for

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What is the general purpose?

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To inform, to persuade, to entertain, to inspire, to celebrate.

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What are the three most common types of general purposes?

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To inform, to persuade, and to entertain

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What is a specific purpose?

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Expresses both topic and the general speech purpose in action form and in the terms of the specific objectives you hope to achieve. Describes what the speech is intended to do

40
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What is a thesis/central idea?

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Encapsulates the main points of a speech in just a sentence or two, it is designed to give the audience a preview of what the entire speech will be about

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How is the thesis similar to the specific purpose?

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You specific purpose helps create your thesis with the subject

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How is the thesis different from the specific purpose?

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The specific purpose is informing or persuading the audience, the thesis is explaining what your speech will be about

43
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Why should you not use I or and or commas in these objectives?

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The speech is suppose to be directed towards the audience and influencing the audience, not yourself

44
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What is the most important task for the speaker during the speech?

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to get their main point across

45
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Which part of the speech does the text recommend that you create first?

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The main body of your speech before you write the introduction or the conclusion

46
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What is the purpose of the body?

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The purpose of the body is what is found to explain you thesis.

47
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What is the purpose of the main points?

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Main points are the key pieces of information or arguments contained within the talk or presentation

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