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Art Public Speaking
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Frame Of Reference | The sum of a person’s knowledge, experience, goals, values and attitudes. No two people can have exactly the same frame of reference. |
| Ethnocentrism | The Belief that one’s own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures |
| Global Plagiarism Stealing | a speech entirely from a single source and passing it off as one’s own. |
| Patchwork Plagiarism Stealing | ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as one’s own. |
| Incremental Plagiarism Failing | to give credit for particular parts of a speech that are borrowed from other people. |
| Spare “Brain Time” | The difference between the rate at which most people talk (120 to 150 words per minute) and the rate at which the brain can process language (400 to 800 words a minute) |
| Key Word Outline | An outline that briefly notes a speaker’s main points and supporting evidence in a rough outline form. |
| Ice Breaker Speech | A speech early in the term designed to get students speaking in front of class as soon as possible. |
| Topical Order | A method of speech organization in which the main points divide the topic into logical and consistent subtopics. |
| Extemporaneous Speech | A carefully prepared and rehearsed speech that is presented from a brief set of notes. |
| Specific Purpose | A single infinitive phrase that states precisely what a speaker hopes to accomplish in his or her speech. |
| Audience-centeredness Keeping | the audience foremost in mind at every step of speech preparation and presentation |
| Egocentrism | The tendency of people to be concerned above all with their own values, beliefs, and well-being |
| Demographic Audience Analysis | Audience analysis that focuses on demographic factors such as age, gender, religion, sexual orientation, group membership, and racial, ethnic, or cultural background |
| Situational Audience Analysis | Audience analysis that focuses on situational factors such as the size of the audience, the physical setting for the speech, and the disposition of the audience toward the topic, the speaker, and the occasion |
| Fixed-alternative Questions | Questions that offer a fixed choice between two or more alternative |
| Scale Questions | Questions that require responses at fixed intervals along a scale of answers |
| Catalogue | A listing of all the books, periodicals, and other resources owned by a library. |
| Call Number | A number used in libraries to classify books and periodicals and to indicate where they can be found on the shelves |
| Reference Work | A work that synthesizes a large amount of related information for easy access by researchers |
| Newspaper and Periodical Database | A research aid that catalogues articles from a large number of magazines, journals, and newspapers |
| Virtual Library | A search engine that combines Internet technology with traditional library methods of cataloguing and assessing data |
| Sponsoring Organization | An organization that, in the absence of a clearly identified author, is responsible for the content of a document on the Internet |
| Research Interview | An interview conducted to gather information for a speech. |
| Preliminary Bibliography | A list compiled early in the research process of works that look as if they might contain helpful information about a speech topic. |
| Supporting Materials | the materials used to support a speaker’s ideas. The three major kinds of supporting materials are examples, statistics, and testimony. |
| Mean | The average value of a group of numbers. |
| Median | The middle number in a group of numbers arranged from highest to lowest. |
| Mode | The number that occurs most frequently in a group of numbers |
| Testimony | Quotations or paraphrases used to support a point. |
| Expert Testimony | Testimony from people who are recognized experts in their fields |
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