You can build public speaking skills just by talking with others.

You should practice your speech just like you were delivering  it to the audience.

You can use notes when giving a speech

Procrastination will not affect your speech performance.

You only have to think about your audience when picking your topic.

Communication is a

The skills you learn in public speaking are very beneficial to finding a job.

Where is the best place to look for a topic idea?

Don’t give people data; connect facts to their lives.

Material used to clarify, support, and develop a speech’s major ideas.

You must know how to select the right word or phrase to ______ an idea.

Ethics should be a part of every step when creating your speech?

People should only listen to what they want to listen to.

Wikipedia can be used to gather ideas AND be used as a source.

The central idea of a speech, plus a preview of the main ideas.

Presenting someone else’s words or ideas as though they were one’s own.

Listening mindfully means that you

Listening is as/if not more important than speaking.

An oral citation usually includes the publication date and _____ of a source.

You should look for a common ground with your audience.

A statement of what listeners should be able to do by the end of the speech.

The central idea should be worded in ____ and ____ language.

A one-sentence of what a speech is about.

What audience cues should you look for while you are speaking?

The audience’s culture should not come into consideration when using audience adaptation.

You can gather information about your audience formally and informally.

1. The process of ethically using information about an audience in order to adapt one’s message so that it is clear and achieves the speaking objective.

Speech transitions can be verbal but not nonverbal.

Your goal should be to use only as many words as are necessary to convey your message.

It is better to use complicated language than simple language because it makes you sound smart to your audience.

You can use the same effective introduction methods in your conclusion.

An unmotivated listener quickly tunes out.

A shorter outline that isn’t super detailed that presenters use while speaking that includes supporting material, signposts, and delivery cues.

You can use jargon in your speech but you must give the audience the definition of the jargon you will be using before you use it.

1. The oversimplification of an issue into a choice between only two outcomes or possibilities.

A speaker’s disrespectful language cannot affect their credibility.

A communication theory that suggests that if listener’s expectations about how communication should be expressed are violated, listeners will feel less favorable toward that communicator of the message.

A theory suggesting that people tend to “catch” the emotions of others.

Listeners will focus on the unexpected.

Listeners will focus on the unexpected.We should reinforce key ideas verbally and nonverbally.

Ethos is

Pathos is

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

A proposition advocating for a change in policy, procedure, or behavior.

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

Logos is

The best persuasive topics are those you feel passionate about.

A vivid description that appeals to the senses.

You should use lots of stylistic devices in your speech to keep your audience’s attention.

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

1. A faulty cause-and-effect connection between two things or events.

1. Faulty reasoning that suggests because everyone else believes something or is doing something, then it must be valid or correct.

1. A conclusion reached without adequate evidence.

1. An attack or irrelevant characteristics of the person who is proposing an idea, rather than to attack the idea itself.

Use of the testimony of an expert in a given field to endorse an idea or product for which the expert does not have the appropriate credentials or expertise.

1. Latin for “it does not follow”; an idea or conclusion that does not logically relate to or follow from the previous idea or conclusion. 

1.  Irrelevant facts or information used to distract someone from the issue under discussion.