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A concise overview of key concepts in public speaking, focusing on audience analysis and speech preparation. It covers topics such as understanding audience demographics, attitudes, beliefs, and values, as well as techniques for topic selection, research, and outlining. The document also addresses different cultural contexts and communication styles, offering valuable insights for effective public speaking. It includes definitions of terms like 'audience-centered approach', 'demographics', 'sexist language', 'collectivist cultures', 'brainstorming', and 'thesis statement'.
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Audience Analysis - correct answer Process of gathering and analyzing information about audience members. Audience-Centered Approach - correct answer Will help prepare something the audience will want to hear. Pandering - correct answer Keeping and audience-center, but keeping your own convictions and views. Attitudes - correct answer General evaluations of people, ideas, objects, or events. Beliefs - correct answer The way people perceive reality. Values - correct answer Most enduring judgements about what is good and bad in life. Accessing the Audiences' Feelings Toward Topic - correct answer The topic of your speech, you as the speaker, the speech occasion. Identification - correct answer Finding way that you are smilier and can relate with the speaker. Captive Audience - correct answer A harder audience to connect to because they are not exactly choosing to be there. Demographics - correct answer Statistical characteristics of a given population. Target Audience - correct answer Those audience members with similar characteristics, wants, and needs.
Audience Segmentation - correct answer Dividing a genera audience into smaller groups to identify target audiences wants and needs. Generational Identification - correct answer Age range, what generation they come form and what those generations are like. Co-culture - correct answer Social community whose values and style of communication may or may not mesh with your own. Socioeconomic Status - correct answer Income, occupation, and education. Gender - correct answer Social and physical sense of self as males or females. Sexist Language - correct answer Language that casts males or females into roles on the bases of sex alone. Gender Stereotypes - correct answer Oversimplified and often severely distorted ideas about the innate nature of what is means to be male or female. Persons with Disabilities (PWD) - correct answer Keeping correct language when speaking to a group that may have mental, physical, emotional, or employment disability. Individualistic Cultures - correct answer Tend to emphasize the needs of the individual rather than those of the group, upholding such values as an individual achievement. Collectivist Cultures - correct answer Personal identity, needs, and desires are viewed as secondary to those of the larger group. Wishes of their family come before their own. Uncertainty Avoidance - correct answer Extend to which people feel threatened by ambiguity.
Open-Ended Questions - correct answer Designed to allow respondents to elaborate as much as they want. Informative Speech - correct answer To increase the audience's understanding and awareness of a topic. General Speech Purpose - correct answer Why am I speaking on this topic to this audience for this occasion? Persuasive Speech - correct answer Effect some degree of change in the audience's attitudes, beliefs, or even specific behaviors. Special Occasion Speech - correct answer Entertain, celebrate, commemorate, inspire, or set a social agenda. Brainstorming - correct answer Process that involves the spontaneous generation of ideas through word association, topic mapping, or internet browsing. Word Association - correct answer Write down one topic that might interest you and the listeners. Jot down first thing that comes to mind pertaining to it. Topic Mapping - correct answer Lay out words in a diagram form to show categorical relationships among them. Topic in the middle and then branch out from there. Specific Speech Purpose - correct answer Exactly what you want the audience to get from the speech. Thesis Statement - correct answer Theme or central idea of the speech state in the form of a single declarative sentence. Library Portal - correct answer Electronic entry point for a library, database. Virtual Libraries - correct answer Online collections of actual libraries that can be found on the Internet.
Invisible Web - correct answer General part of the web search engines can fail to find. Information - correct answer Data presented in an understandable context. Propoganda - correct answer Information presented to provoke a desired response. Misinformation - correct answer Always refer to something that is not true. Disinformation - correct answer Deliberately falsified information. Search Engines - correct answer Index of contents on the web. Individual Search Engines - correct answer Google, Yahoo!, Bing Meta search Engines - correct answer Scan individual search engines simotaneously. Specialized Search Engines - correct answer Databases created by researchers, government agencies, or businesses. Subject Directory - correct answer Searchable catalog of websites organized into subject categories. Paid Placement - correct answer Companies pay search engines to have their info higher on results. Paid Inclusion - correct answer Pay fees just to be on results but not necessarily at the top. Advance Searching - correct answer Goes beyond basic search commands to narrow results further.
Supporting Points - correct answer Represent the supporting material or evidence that has been gathered. Roman Numeral Outline - correct answer Baseball outline style. Coordination and Subordination - correct answer Logical placement of ideas and relative to their importance to one another. Transitions - correct answer Words, phrases, or sentences that tie the speech idea together and enable the speaker to move smoothly from one point to another. Full-Sentance Transitions - correct answer Self explanatory. Rhetorical Question - correct answer Not necessarily for an answer but to make the audience think. Signposts - correct answer Conjunctions or phrases or single words. (Next, We now turn, Finally) Preview Statement - correct answer Briefly describes what will be covered in the body of the speech. Internal Previews - correct answer Can be used to alert audience members to a shift from one main point to the other. Internal Summary - correct answer Draws together ideas before the speaker proceeds to another speech point. Chronological Pattern of Arrangement - correct answer Follows the natural sequential order of the main points. Spatial Pattern of Arrangement - correct answer Speech tour of a certain space.
Causal Pattern of Arrangement - correct answer Cause to effects. Problem-Solution Pattern of Arrangement - correct answer Organizes main points both to demonstrate the nature and significance of a problem and to provide justification for a proposed solution. Topical Pattern of Arrangement - correct answer Each of the main points is a subtopic or category of the speech topic. Narrative Pattern of Arrangement - correct answer Speech consists of a story or a series of short stories, replete with characters, settings, plot, and vivid imagery. Circular Pattern of Arrangement - correct answer Develop one idea which leads to another which leads to a third and so on and so forth. Working Outline - correct answer Organize and firm up main points, using evidence collected, develop supporting points. Speaking Outline - correct answer Outline used when practicing and actually presenting the speech. Sentence Outline - correct answer Each main and supporting point is stated in sentence or as a declarative sentence. Phrase Outline - correct answer Uses partial construction of the sentence form of each point. Key-word Outline - correct answer Uses the smallest possible units of understanding to outline the main and supporting points. Delivery Cues - correct answer Words that will guide you to what is next. Generally in parentheses. Anecdote - correct answer A brief story of real life, funny, or interesting incidents.