The main point of brainstorming is to select the specific topic you will talk about in your speech.

According to your textbook, testimony dramatizes a topic and helps the audience identify with the speaker's ideas.

"Transitions" is the formal term for a word, phrase, or sentence used throughout a speech to mark locations in the organization and clearly link the parts of a speech together.

In an outline, subordinate points are those that are under the main points, and provide evidence and information that support your main ideas.

You use brainstorming techniques twice as you develop your speeches—first for identifying possible speech topics and later for coming up with material to use in your presentation.

Information found in an encyclopedia is an example of a primary source.

Speakers often use analogies to help an audience understand something new to them.

Where and when you are giving a speech has very little to do with selecting your topic.

At the end of your working outline, you should list the references for your speech—the sources of all the supporting material you included.

A complete-sentence outline offers a highly detailed description of your ideas and how they're related to one another.

Most search engines are able to access all of the websites on the Internet.

Ethical public speaking requires a dialogue between speakers and listeners.

When giving a speech to entertain your goal is to reinforce, modify or change audience members' beliefs, attitudes, opinions or values.

Social media sites are especially useful in learning about current trends and can provide ideas for speech topics.

Research shows that less than ten percent of college students are willing to admit to having copied information directly from an Internet source without providing a reference.

Brainstorming for topic ideas should be done well before your speech date and should be done over several sessions.

According to your textbook the "deep web" contains websites that are usually accessible through search engines like Google.

Listening is NOT a part of ethical communication.

Institutional stories tell us how individuals should act in the organization and the values it emphasizes.

When conducting an interview to gather research for your speech your first step is to select the interviewees.

Conflict always produces negative outcomes.

"Cause-and-effect" pattern of organization can be used for either Informative or Persuasive Speeches.

It is not necessary to write the topic, general purpose, or specific purpose on your complete sentence outline, since you already decided upon these elements when preparing your working outline.

Institutional narratives are stories from organizations or corporations.

You should choose your keywords carefully and consider alternatives to your original choice in order to produce a range of results.

When documenting sources in your bibliography you need to list the author's last name and then their first initial not full first name when using APA style.

According to your textbook, when presenting an informative speech it is important to avoid expressing your personal views on a topic.

Special occasions like awards ceremonies, company parties, roasts, and toasts often provide the context for persuasive speeches.

According to your book, words that attack groups such as racial, ethnic, religious and sexual minorities are termed hate speech.

"Signposts" are a kind of transition that let your audience know where you are in your speech and where you are going.

According to your textbook, "ethnocentrism" is the position that our world view is better than anyone else's.

Before selecting the topic for your speech it is important to consider the audience you are speaking to.

According to your textbook, mythos refers to appeals to cultural beliefs and values.

According to your textbook, supporting materials provide the substance of your speech – they provide the evidence for your ideas.

According to your textbook, one common type of informative speech would be a speech about a concept.

The main points of your speech should be about equal in importance relative both to your topic and to the other points.

If you do not intend to plagiarize a source, it is not considered plagiarism.

While audiences tend to find examples persuasive used in conjunction with other forms of supporting materials—especially statistics and facts—examples alone usually are not convincing.

There are actually four different types of listening.

Several communication organizations provide guidelines for ethical communication.

Relating your own narrative personalizes the topic and helps listeners why you choose it.

As you conduct your research, try to focus on one perspective in order to reinforce your assumptions.

Specialized search engines provide access to documents and media that are not standard web pages, such as e-books, Microsoft Word documents, spreadsheets, digital slides in PowerPoint, Adobe PDFs, and text documents.

Facts and statistics used as supporting materials are never subject to interpretation and manipulation.

It is important to include a conclusion preview in your interview guide.

When documenting sources in your bibliography you need to list the author's last name and then their first initial NOT full first name when using MLA STYLE.

"Signposts" wrap up the speech with the speaker reviewing the main points, restating the thesis and providing closure.

Every speech has three main parts: introduction, body, and conclusion.

The thesis statement helps make your audience aware of what's coming in your speech and keeps them on track and involved throughout your presentation.

Ethnocentric listeners usually respond positively to a speaker who does not share their cultural background.

Without the usual gatekeepers watching over bloggers, you cannot trust any of the information available in the blogosphere.

For the most part, audiences are not particularly interested in speeches about other people and living creatures.

The most useful ideas usually emerge from brainstorming on your own, but asking whether another knowledgeable person to brainstorm with you can also work.

A speech about a process facilitates an audience's understanding of how something is done, how it works, or how it has developed.

Having a well-defined purpose is not especially important in public speaking.

The body of a speech includes the introduction, main points, and the conclusion.

Institutional stories transmit basic values and accepted behaviors, often told in the form of a fable or myth.

In most speeches you do NOT need to transition to your conclusion.

Using testimony to support your claims only works if listeners believe in the source's credibility.

Informative speaking involves deepening understanding, raising awareness, or increasing an audience's knowledge about a topic.

According to your textbook, when evaluating your research materials you need to check the validity of the information.

Although legally most email is considered public communication people generally think of email exchanges between individuals as private communication.

The specific purpose of your speech tells the audience what you want to achieve in your speech.

Including too few points is one of the biggest problems students encounter when learning how to develop a topic.

According to your textbook, when writing interview questions, in general, your questions should be neutral and open-ended.

Your introduction and conclusion are NOT part of your outline, only the body of the speech is part of the outline.

A speech of tribute is likely to follow the narrative organizational pattern.

According to your textbook, due to the advances in technology and information on the Internet, books are not a key source of information for your speech.

Spatial organization links points together based on their physical relationships, such as their locations.

Informative speakers should use a large amount of presentation media in order to keep the audience's attention.

The general purpose of a speech is usually to inform, to persuade or to entertain.

For informative speeches that demonstrate how to do something, the best approach is to use a chronological pattern that leads the audience through the process step by step.

It is important to offer oral citations of your sources in your speech.

Metaphors rely on an implicit comparison while similes make an explicit comparison.

Informative speakers can make a speech topic come alive by connecting the topic to the audience in meaningful ways.

Your thesis summarizes your plan for achieving the specific purpose of the speech.

One way to heighten the audience's interest in a topic is to use similes that juxtapose objects, processes, or ideas in unique and novel ways.

While making a connection to your audience is important in a persuasive speech it is something to avoid doing in an informative speech.

Hypothetical examples are based on actual events.

According to your textbook, connotative meanings are the ones you would find in a dictionary.

A transition that indicates a key move in a speech, making its organization clear to the audience is called a signpost.

Most words have several connotative meanings and infinite denotative meanings.

All informative speeches should be organized using the topical pattern of organization.

Dialogic ethics require speakers engage in one-way communication.

When giving a speech to inform your goal is to reinforce, modify, or change audience members' beliefs, attitudes, opinions, or values.

In an informative speech a speaker describes, explains, or demonstrates something but does NOT tell the audience what to think or do about it.

In today's online environment, books are no longer a key source of information.

With skillful research and delivery, almost anything that is important or interesting to a speaker can be made important or interesting to an audience.

Audiences focus closely on the trustworthiness of a female speaker's sources but are more concerned with how a male speaker organizes his ideas, maintains eye contact, and uses his voice.

According to your textbook it is best to go to an interview with prepared questions.

Phrasing the thesis of your speech clearly helps you to identify exactly what you want to say to your audience.

A primary question is a question that introduces a new topic or subtopic in an interview.

According to your textbook, listening is the physical process of receiving sounds.

Libraries are no longer useful in the age of internet research.

Copyright laws, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, require you to get permission from authors if you want to use their original published and unpublished works. Fair use, however, allows you to use limited portions of an author's work if you credit the source of the information.

Digital technology has decreased the ethical responsibilities communicators must accept when they interact with others.

Hypothetical examples are based on ____.

Which of the following types of narratives best represent mythos?

Two primary tasks in the opening portion of an interview are ____.

Which of the following is an example of gender-neutral language?

Bailey is preparing an informative speech entitled "Shaun White's Snowboarding Techniques." Which of the following organizational patterns would NOT be appropriate for this speech?

Which of the following is NOT mentioned in your text as a method to help you effectively relate your topic to the audience?

Effective storytellers create a sense of drama, develop compelling characters, and ____.

"Josh was flopping like a fish on a line" is an example of ____.

George is preparing a PowerPoint presentation to use with his speech about Yosemite National Park. He is unsure of what he needs to do to properly cite the sources of several images he found online in the speech. What should George do?

In which step in Monroe's motivated sequence does the speaker show the audience the benefits of the proposed solution or the costs of not implementing the solution or both?

When giving his speech on the Civil War, Carl quoted a section of President Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" without crediting Mr. Lincoln. Carl is guilty of ____.

The average price of a home in your town is most likely what type of evidence?

____ involves monitoring news sources to analyze and assess the information produced by those sources.

"The Secret Spices of Thai Food" is an example of an informative speech about ____.

Which pattern of organization is most appropriate for convincing audience members to agree with a course of action?

A point or sub-point should have at least how many pieces of information to support it?