Exam 11: Public Speaking Preparation (Steps 1-6)

Suggestions for reducing public speaking anxiety include gaining __________,thinking __________,stressing similarity between speaker and audience,and avoiding chemicals as tension relievers.

Public speaking is defined as a(n)

Andrea has decided to speak on antiques for her 6 to 8 minute informative classroom speech.In helping Andrea make her topic manageable,what would be the BEST advice to give her?

Analyzing the sociology of your audience includes considering their

People experience __________ in all types of communication situations,but it is most common in public speaking situations.

Public speaking apprehension is the LEAST common form of communication apprehension.

Plan to cover a broad topic in detail rather than a limited topic in generalities.

When speaking about the various majors available at her university,Mary divided her presentation by Colleges: Engineering,Arts and Sciences,and Education.Mary's organization pattern is

__________ is a form of communication in which a speaker addresses a relatively large audience with a relatively continuous discourse,usually in a face-to-face situation.

Phillip organized his speech about movies into the following main points: the silent era,the reign of the big studios,and the rise of the independent films.Phillip has chosen a temporal or time organizational pattern.

The thesis is phrased as a complete declarative sentence; the purpose is phrased as a(n)__________ phrase.

The BEST organizational pattern for a presentation on the geographic weather patterns of the United States would be

In the action step of the motivated sequence,you tell the audience what they should do to alleviate the problem you have identified earlier in the presentation.

Morgan is going to give a presentation on how to prepare a tax return.Which of the following would constitute a suitable thesis statement for Morgan's presentation?

Chantal notices that her audience is starting to fidget and a few have started putting away their Materials.Chantal needs to make one more crucial point before she ends her presentation.Chantal's best course of action to adapt to her audience is to

How does a story about the changes in technology her grandmother has experienced in the last fifty Years fit into Ellen's speech on new technology?

The first step in preparing an effective public presentation is

Greg plans to give a speech recounting the major struggles the southern city in which he lives experienced during the civil rights movement. The general purpose for Greg's speech would be to

Campaign speeches are NOT examples of public speaking.

Two general purposes of speeches are to inform and to persuade.