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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS |
Quiz 1 (Jaffe, Chapters
1-5 & 9)
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What is culture?
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What is rhetorical
sensitivity?
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Compare oral, literate, and electronic cultures.
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In what ways does culture
affect speaking?
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Define the components of the
transactional communication model: sender-receivers, messages, context, noise,
encoding, decoding, channels, feedback,
etc.
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Explain each of the five canons of
rhetoric.
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How can a speaker manage
anxiety?
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Compare various common
responses to diversity: resisting, assimilating, and accommodating.
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What are the values of
ethical speaking?
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What are the ethical problems
with plagiarism and fabrication?
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How can such things as cultural
allusions and the speech-thought differential be barriers
to listening?
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How can we improve our
listening behavior?
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Recognize various types of
questions which a listener might ask.
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How should a speaker respond
to different types of audiences (pedestrian, passive, selected, etc.)?
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What demographic and
situational characteristics are important in audience analysis?
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What are three types of
credibility?
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How many main ideas (or
points) should a speech develop?
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What traditional patterns are
effective for organizing various types of material?
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Recognize the characteristics
of alternative patterns for organizing
presentations.
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Quiz 2
(Jaffe, Chapters 6-8, 12, 15 & 16 )
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What areas can you examine in
deciding on a speaking topic?
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Recognize examples of topic,
specific purpose, and central idea?
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What are primary and
secondary sources of information?
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What is the value of the
various library sources of information?
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How can the Internet be used
for research?
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How should Internet resources
be evaluated?
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Recognize major types of
supporting materials: Definitions, descriptions, examples, quotations
(testimony), statistics, and comparisons (analogies).
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How can each type of evidence be evaluated? [Pay special attention to
the "Stop and Check" sections of Chapter 8.]
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Distinguish between expert
and peer testimony.
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Distinguish among the types
of statistics discussed in Chapter 8.
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Compare various methods of
displaying visual aids.
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Explain the use of various
types of visual and audiovisual aids, including four kinds of graphs.
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How can computer technology
be used to create visuals?
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What general guidelines
govern the use of visuals?
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Explain the functions of
narrative in oral presentations.
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What are the three tests of
narrative reasoning?
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What are the five important
elements of narrative?
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In what ways can an
informative speaker meet the audience's needs for knowledge?
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What guidelines should be
followed in informative speaking?
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Quiz 3
(Jaffe, Chapters 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18 & Appendix A)
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What goals should be met in a
speech introduction?
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What methods can be used to achieve each of
the goals of a speech introduction?
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What goals should be met in a
conclusion?
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Distinguish among types of
connectives: Signposts, transitions, previews, and summaries.
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What do the following terms
mean with respect to outlining: Coordination, indentation, parallel
points, and subordination?
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How does a content outline
differ from a speaking outline?
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Recognize examples of terms
defined throughout Chapter 13, including denotation, connotation, jargon, epithets, euphemisms,
concrete & abstract words, alliteration, hyperbole, metaphor and simile.
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Give examples of emblems,
illustrators, and adaptors?
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Describe effective eye
contact.
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What are the characteristics
of effective vocal delivery?
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Compare types of delivery:
Impromptu, memorized, manuscript, and extemporaneous.
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Distinguish among three types
of claim: Fact, value, and policy.
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How should a speaker's
persuasive purposes shift with various types of audiences, for
example, unconvinced, unmotivated, inconsistent, negative or hostile
audiences?
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What are the characteristics
and values of each of the organizational patterns discussed in Chapter
17?
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Recognize the parts of
reasoning: Claim, evidence, warrant, qualifier, and rebuttal.
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Recognize various types of
reasoning: Analogy, inductive, deductive, and causal. How can the
strength of each type be tested?
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What is a fallacy of
reasoning? Recognize the fallacies discussed.
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How can we test emotional
appeals?
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What are the components of
credibility (ethos)?
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What are the advantages and
disadvantages of working in groups?
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What are the steps of the
problem-solving method?
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Compare the three methods for
presenting a group's findings?
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