Exam 13: Informing

Reporting is unbiased so it is the only truly informative strategy.

Which of the following examples best demonstrates the informative strategy of defining?

The strategy of comparing would be particularly appropriate for a speech about the costs and benefits of mutual funds versus bond funds.

When a speaker intends to change and update the audience's common knowledge, the purpose is to provide new __________.

The effective speaker using the describing strategy gives __________ about a person, place, or event.

Informative strategies ask listeners to __________.

When a speaker uses "we" rather than "you" to refer to his or her relationship with the audience, what is the speaker doing?

When you aim to make the audience aware of an issue or problem that they had not previously known about, your informative purpose is likely __________.

The process of deciding how a speech can best achieve its purpose is called __________.

Speeches that use defining strategies are partly persuasive because defining terms always influences listeners to think about things in a certain way.

The strategy of defining can be used for speeches that aim to inform or for speeches that aim to persuade.

The same strategies that improve attention also encourage retention.

__________ is an informative strategy aimed at clarifying a term or concept that is vague or troublesome.

Retention is encouraged through __________, which is a response by the speaker that rewards the listeners.

Global warming, which was not always perceived as an issue, is now an important concern because of public messages that served the purpose of __________.

Speeches relying on the strategy of reporting almost always use which organizational pattern?

Lars listened to his classmates debating the provisions of the Patriot Act and decided to give a speech clarifying their understanding of the term "patriotism." Which informative strategy might he have relied on most in his speech?

Informative strategies presume that the principal goal of the speech is to __________ with the audience.

Magda attended a two-day celebration of campus diversity. She decided to make this event the topic of her upcoming informative speech. Which informative strategy is she most likely to use?

When explaining a difficult concept, it is important to distinguish its __________ meaning from its other less central meanings.