Exam 11: Selecting Your Topic and Knowing Your Audience

A person's race, ethnicity, or country of origin is referred to as ______ background.

Other than its length, what is the difference between using a brief example and an extended example in speechmaking?

Name a situation in which you are not formulating your own idea and yet do not need to cite a source. Give a specific example of this.

Age, ethnicity, religious preference, income, and education level are all examples of ______, or the personal characteristics or attributes of an audience.

______ is the process of gathering and analyzing information about an audience to make informed choices about the content and delivery of a presentation.

Which term, coined by Aristotle, refers to a speaker's emotional appeal?

Stella asks her audience to identify their age on a survey. She provides the options of younger than 18, 19-25, 26-35, 36-45, and 50 and older. This is an example of a(n) ______ question.

What types of questions can you ask that will help you choose your presentation topic?

Define epideictic, informative, and persuasive presentations and give one "real-world" example of each type.

In the social sciences (psychology, anthropology, sociology, communication, etc.), most use the guidelines of the ______ for reference lists.

An informative speech seeks to increase the audience's understanding about a topic.

Miran does not like big cities. This is one of Miran's ______.

Jerilynn's professor thinks she used another person's words and did not give credit to the source. What type of plagiarism does the professor think Jerilynn has committed?

______ refers to a person being trustworthy and believable.

When commemorating a special event in an epideictic presentation, a speaker should always do so in a highly formal manner.

______ are publications, either printed or electronic, that are produced on a regular basis, such as newspapers, magazines, and journals.

Professor Steiner suspects a student has plagiarized a paper because the voice is inconsistent throughout the paper, that is, it reads as if multiple people wrote the paper. What type of plagiarism does Professor Steiner most likely suspect?

Tyrone's communication professor gives Tyrone's class an assignment to present a persuasive speech that attempts to convince the class to start or stop doing something, knowing it contradicts what they have always been taught. One of Tyrone's classmates tries to convince his classmates to stop using toothpaste (and start using baking soda instead). Another tries to convince her classmates to try eating grasshoppers (because she maintains insects are the protein of the future). This assignment intentionally collides with Tyrone's class members' _______.

Speakers are able to narrow the goals of a presentation as they articulate the topic, general purpose, and specific purpose. Provide a sample topic, general purpose, and specific purpose for a speech having to do with college students' nutrition.

The type of survey question that allows a person to choose an answer between two points is known as a(n) ______.