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1. How can developing listening skills during speeches help you as a speaker?
2. How does monologue differ from dialogic communication?
3. What is the difference between an internal listening distraction and an external listening
distraction?
4. Describe two types of internal listening distractions, and explain how they detract from a
communication situation.
5. Describe how a listener can plan ways of coping with common listening distractions.
6. Define defensive listening, and explain two ways to eliminate it.
7. Identify something you perceive to be a cultural barrier to listening, based on your own
experience or a hypothetical situation, and explain how this barrier could be overcome.
8. Write a brief list of ways you can become a more active listener. Tailor your list to reflect
your own strengths and weaknesses as a listener.
9. Define critical thinking, and explain why it is important in the process of
communicating with others.
10. Identify three guidelines for evaluating a speaker's evidence and reasoning.
11. When you evaluate a speech, how can you be compassionate and constructive in your
criticism?
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