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1. Process of preparing and delivering a message to an audience. _______
2. Consideration of your audience and speech topic. _______
3. Researching references for preparing a speech. _______
4. Process of planning your outline and visual aids. _______
5. Practicing your presentation. _______
6. Adaptations made based on feedback. _______
7. The reason for giving a presentation. _______
8. A presentation that educates an audience about a topic. _______
9. A presentation that changes an audience’s attitudes or beliefs. _______
10. Presentations that entertain, celebrate, commemorate, or inspire. _______
11. The content that is presented. _______
12. A creative problem-solving strategy that generates topical ideas. _______
13. A drawing showing connections among related ideas. ______
14. A process of identifying important characteristics about your listeners and using this information
to prepare your speech. _______
15. Audience characteristics including their age, sex, and cultural background. _______
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16. A person’s evaluation of an issue, situation, or person. _______
17. A conviction about what is or is not true. _______
18. Beliefs that guide our behaviors. _______
19. When your listeners are required to attend your presentation. _______
20. When listeners attend out of self-interest or to fulfill a need. _______
21. One complete sentence summarizing the goal of your speech. _______
22. Free Web-based services that let you save, organize, and keep brief notes about your online
resources. _______
23. Misrepresenting others’ work as your own. _______
24. Direct accounts, straight from the original source. _______
25. Works that analyze and interpret primary resources. _______
26. A meeting in which you ask questions to gain knowledge or understanding about a particular
topic. ______
27. When other sources agree with or use the same information you’re considering using.
_______
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