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Duck, Communication in Everyday Life: The Basic Course Edition With Public
Difficulty Level: Medium
26. Vary your pitches within your natural range to maximize audience interest.
Short Answer
1. Explain what the term dynamism means.
2. Explain the term composure and what it means relative to public speaking.
3. List at least five (5) aspects of personal appearance named in the chapter.
4. Explain the goals of effective delivery.
5. Explain the use of vocal pitch in a presentation.
6. With regard to eye contact, the chapter suggests that a fine line exists between a
friendly glance in someone’s direction and the piercing stare of a psychopath. In what
context is this statement made?
7. What is communication apprehension?
8. ______ are breaks in the vocal flow that allow speakers to direct the audience, add
emphasis to areas of a presentation, and avoid nonfluencies.
9. ______ are meaningless vocal fillers (such as um) that distract from a presentation.
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Duck, Communication in Everyday Life: The Basic Course Edition With Public
Speaking, 3e
SAGE Publishing, 2021
10. ______ delivery involves having the entire speech written out in front of you when
you speak.
11. ______ delivery is exactly what it says on the label: delivering a speech without the
use of a manuscript or any notes whatsoever.
12. ______ delivery is generally recommended as the way to achieve a natural
conversational delivery while ensuring the accuracy of ideas and connecting relationally
with an audience.
13. The first way to deal with stress and anxiety related to public speaking is to ______.
14. Especially when people have little or no actual experience speaking in front of
others, they are _______ afraid of actually speaking in front of an audience and more
afraid of the unknown.
15. It is important to limit the unknown factors of a presentation. Explain how knowing
the audience can alleviate apprehension.
16. It is important to limit the unknown factors of a presentation. Explain how knowing
the topic can alleviate apprehension.
17. It is important to limit the unknown factors of a presentation. Explain how knowing
the speech will be worthwhile can alleviate apprehension.
18. It is important to limit the unknown factors of a presentation. Explain how knowing
the speech’s beginning will be worthwhile can alleviate apprehension.
19. It is important to limit the unknown factors of a presentation. Explain how being
comfortable using the presentation aids will be worthwhile can alleviate apprehension.
Essay
1. Your best friend has asked you to be his or her best man or maid of honor. Thus, you
need to prepare a speech for the wedding reception. What style of delivery would you
use for the presentation? Justify your answer using information from Duck and
McMahan.
2. Please list and explain the three guidelines for effective delivery. In addition, provide
strategies that you think will help you follow these guidelines.
3. What advice would you give to a friend or classmate who has communication
apprehension? Provide any personal ways that you deal with nerves, and explain
whether they were discussed in the text.
4. What are presentation aids? Explain the pros and cons of incorporating them into a
presentation. Explain a scenario when you used a presentation aid. What was the
outcome? (Alternatively, you may explain a presentation that you observed that used a
presentation aid.)
5. One purpose of having presentation aids is to enhance audience understanding.
Explain this purpose and provide an example.
6. One purpose of having presentation aids is to stimulate the audience. Explain this
purpose and provide an example.
7. One purpose of having presentation aids is to enhance audience reaction. Explain
this purpose and provide an example.
8. One purpose of having presentation aids is to enhance audience attention. Explain
this purpose and provide an example.
9. One purpose of having presentation aids is to enhance speaker credibility. Explain
this purpose and provide an example.
10. What are some disadvantages of memorized delivery?
11. What are some advantages of extemporaneous delivery?
12. One secondary dimension of credibility is dynamism. Discuss what dynamism is and
how it can be important to speech delivery.
13. One secondary dimension of credibility is composure. Discuss what composure is
and how it can be important to speech delivery.
14. One secondary dimension of credibility is sociability. Define sociability and explain
how it can be important to speech delivery.
15. One secondary dimension of credibility is inspiring the audience. Discuss how to
inspire the audience and how it can be important to speech delivery.
