Exam 12: D: Preparing and Researching Presentations

Most good speakers feel little or no anxiety about speaking in front of an audience.

"My audience should realize that a coffee tasting is more complicated than just brewing a pot of coffee and inviting some friends over but feel like it's something they could organize if they wanted to," is an example of a thesis statement.

U.S. companies identify public speaking as one of the most important skills needed for professional success.

Treating people with dignity and behaving with integrity are universal ideas central to the concept of ethics.

The demographic categories a speaker should analyze include audience members' attitudes, values, behaviors, and interests.

The First Amendment right to free speech protects a speaker's right to say anything he or she wants, regardless of the intended or unintended consequences.

Statistics are considered to be the best form of speech support because they are concrete, memorable, and accurate.

Anecdotes are especially useful when a speaker wants to personalize a speech and make it more memorable to the audience.

Quotations do not need to include the exact words of the person who is being quoted.

At the end of his presentation, Bill hopes his audience will see that lowering taxes will do more to stimulate the economy than increased government work projects will. We would classify his speech as an informative speech.

Search engines like Google and Yahoo! index every document available electronically over the Web.

Narrow topics are usually easier to research, organize, and speak about than broad topics are.

Although plagiarism is emphasized as a part of most colleges' academic honesty policies, there are rarely consequences for not crediting one's sources in the real world.

While researching her persuasive speech convincing her audience to donate money to a charity that provides food and other necessities to children who live in poverty, Liz discovered that the charity recently admitted that their chief administrator embezzled money that was donated to the organization for his own personal gain. Liz does not have an obligation to tell her audience this information as long as the charity helps people.

Speakers should note while they are conducting their research whether the information they are recording is being copied verbatim or is paraphrased.

Specific purpose statement and thesis are two different terms for the same thing.

In the "real world," informative speeches and persuasive speeches are essentially the same.

Most classroom speakers do not bother with audience analysis since they already know their classmates.

Reliable Web sites usually provide the name and credentials of the author as well as relevant background information about him or her.

The opinion of a licensed clinical social worker on the top reasons that people in your community become homeless would count as lay testimony.