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COMM #1
Question | Answer |
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Intrapersonal Communication: | Communicating with yourself through your thoughts |
Audience Analysis: | Learning about the diverse characteristics of the people who make up the audience |
Speech-planning process: | System you use to prepare a speech |
Impersonal Communication: | Communication between people about general information, such as saying “hi” to someone in the hallway |
Speech-making process: | Process of giving a speech to the audience |
Speaking expressively: | Using various vocal techniques so you sound a bit more dramatic than you would in casual conversation |
Rhetorical devices: | Language techniques that create and hold audience attention and help audience members remember what you said in your speech |
Empower: | To make more confident and assertive |
Interpersonal Communication: | Communication between two people who have a relationship with each other |
Plagiarism: | Stealing and passing off the ideas, words, or created works of someone else as your own |
Ethics: | A set of moral principles that a society, group or individual holds that distinguish right from wrong and good behavior from bad behavior |
Nonverbal Communication: | The way you stand when giving a speech and the way you use your eyes, face and hands |
Public Speaking: | A formal presentation made by a speaker to an audience |
Listening | Receiving spoken communication from another person and making an effort to hear and understand what the person is saying |
Attention span | Length of time you can concentrate and listen effectively |
Monotone | An unchanging tone without rise or fall in the speaker’s voice |
Critical listening | Evaluate what the speaker is saying and decide on the value of the message |
Understanding | The ability to assign accurate meaning to what was said |
Remembering | Being able to recall and retain the information you heard |
Active listening | Includes identifying how ideas are organized, asking questions, silently paraphrasing, watching nonverbal clues and taking notes |
Paraphrase | Restating the speakers meaning in your own words |
Research | Investigating a subject to learn the facts about it |
Credentials | Your experience or education that qualify you to speak with authority on a specific subject |
Primary source | First-hand accounts that you conduct or those written by people who were part of the original event or research |
Follow-up question | A question you ask during an interview that results from the answers to your primary questions |
Open question | Broad based questions that ask the interviewee to provide perspective, ideas, information, values, goals or opinions |
Closed question | Narrowly focused questions that require only brief answers such as yes or no |
Neutral question | Questions asked in a way that does not direct a person’s answer |
Leading question | Questions asked in a way that suggest you have a preferred answer |
Critical analysis | The process of evaluating what you have heard to determine a speech’s completeness |
Credibility | A speaker’s ability to inspire trust and belief |
Critique | A formal assessment of a speech that requires you to analyze and evaluate a speech’s effectiveness according to how well the speaker meets specific key criteria |
Constructive critique | An analysis of a speech that evaluates how well a speaker meets a specific speaking goal while following the rules for good speaking and recommends how the speech might be improved |
Speech Plan | A strategy for achieving your speech goals. |
Speech Goal | A statement of what you want your audience to know, believe or do. |
Audience adaptation | Process of writing your speech to meet the needs and interests of the listeners |
Demographics | Characteristics of a group of people |
Outline | A plan of main points and supporting detail that you want to cover in your speech |
Chronological order | A method of arranging things in relation to when they happen in time |
Topical order | A method of arranging information by subjects, facts or points |
Visual aid | An object, picture, photo, chart or other image that the audience can see |
Eye contact | A form of nonverbal communication that occurs when two people look at one another for a few seconds |
Animated delivery | A lively, energetic, enthusiastic and dynamic delivery |
Speak clearly | Speaking so the audience can make out what you are saying. |
Pitch | How high or low the sound of your voice is |
Quality of voice | The tone that distinguishes your voice from everyone else’s |
Accent | The speech habits of people from a specific country, region of a country or even a state or city. |
Articulation | The way you use your mouth and lips to form words |
Vocal expressiveness | The variety you create in your voice through changing pitch, volume and rate; the expressing of certain words ; and using pauses |
Stress | To emphasize certain words by speaking them more loudly than they rest of the sentence |
Pause | A moment of silence that enhances the meaning of an idea |
Gestures | How you move your hands, arms and fingers |
Movement | Changing the position of your entire body |
Step 1 Of the Process | Sender |
Step 2 Of the Process | Message |
Step 3 Of the Process | Reciever |
Step 4 Of the Process | Feedback |