The purpose of a speaking outline is to firm up and organize main points and develop
supporting points to substantiate them.
The purpose of an after-dinner speech is typically to entertain and to provide insight
into the topic at hand.
A speaker’s anxiety is unaffected by whether or not he or she perceives the audience as
negative or neutral to the speech.
Most search engines do not order search results according to relevance.
Using observation, proofs, and experiments as supporting evidence is not necessary in a
scientific or mathematical presentation.
Chronological arrangements give the speaker the greatest freedom to structure main
points according to the way he or she wishes to present the topic.
A speech introduction should identify the speech topic and purpose.
The physical setting in which a speech occurs can have a significant impact on the
outcome of a speech.
When using slides, talk to the audience, not to the screen.
There are always some elements of persuasion in an informative speech.
Interviews and surveys are the only methods of audience analysis.
In an engineering design review presentation, it is not necessary to include a discussion
of marketing and budget issues.
If something is common knowledge, it does not need to be cited.
The primary responsibility of debaters is to advance strong arguments in support of
their positions.
How a speaker dresses when delivering a speech is unimportant.
Thinking about your speech from a conversation can help you feel more relaxed about
the your public-speaking process.
Ideas that are considered common knowledge need to be cited in your speech.
If the body of the speech is well developed, it is sometimes an effective technique to
deliver the introduction and conclusion spontaneously, without preparation.
When a presentation aid is really good the speaker should focus on the aid, rather than
on how it furthers the audience’s understanding.
Quotations, stories, and questions are appropriate ways to conclude a speech.
Use familiar typeface that is simple and easy to read on presentation aids.
Interference with the message is known as noise.
According to Aristotle and Cicero, memory is one of the five parts of speech
preparation.
Statistics add precision to speech claims.
When using humor in an introduction, the speaker should keep in mind that the humor
should relate to the speech topic and the occasion.
A regularly published magazine or journal is called a periodical.
Messages that are visually reinforced are no more memorable than those that are only
verbalized.
In Western societies most people require some type of evidence before they will accept
a speaker’s position or claims.
If a speech is informative, its thesis statement represents what you are going to prove in
the address.
Biographical resources contain information about famous or notable people.
The domain of a Web address is the suffix at the end of the address that indicates the
nature of the site.
Articulation problems are often a matter of habit.
Parts of the deep Web not available through general search engines are often available
through a library portal.
When we engage in scriptwriting we focus on what the speaker will say next.
You can define something by describing what it is not or by comparing it to something
synonymous.
Demographics are the psychological characteristics of a given population.
Audience members are usually motivated to listen to a message they think is relevant to
them.
An effective way of gaining audience attention is to pose a question.
Speaking assignments in the arts and humanities often require the speaker to interpret
the meaning of a particular idea, event, person, story, or artifact.
Before the presentation, decide whether________ will be made all at once, or whether
each speaker will introduce the next speaker.
The purpose of the _______ _______ presentation is to provide context and background
for a research question or hypothesis that will form the basis of an impending study.
The _______ is the most common outline format.
Katarina experienced ______ anxiety as soon as she realized she had to give a speech.
_______________ and ____________ are search engines that specifically designed to
search blogs for posts on your topic or to find those blogs devoted entirely to the topic.
A(n) _______ explicitly compares one thing to another, using like or as to do so.
Presentations should be organized in order of the ______ of patient problems.
A(n) _______ is designed to give students an opportunity to synthesize information in a
shorter form and usually lasts about fifteen minutes.
_______ are a type of supporting material that aids audience understanding by making
ideas, items, or events more concrete.
Different sets of sizes of typefaces are called _______ .
A(n) ______ _______ describes original research you have done, either alone or as part
of a team.
Listening is the conscious act of receiving, comprehending, interpreting, evaluating,
and ________ to messages.
Documented occurrences, including actual events, dates, times, people involved, and
places, are known as _______ .
Points in an outline that are indicated by their indentation below the more important
points are known as _______ points.
An appeal to reason or logic is called _______.