Polling your audience about a sensitive topic
A. is only appropriate in informal settings and with small audiences.
B. is likely to make some listeners uncomfortable and should be avoided.
C. can be effective with young, liberal audiences but should be avoided with older, conservative audiences.
D. works best if you have first established common ground by establishing your similarities with audience members.
Answer: B
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Ron Rider is a reporter for City Business, a weekly newspaper in the city. He writes a series of articles that appear in the paper detailing a long history of the city’s Department of Finance not collecting sales from certain businesses. His articles refer to unnamed sources that he called “close to the director of the Department of Finance.” The city attorney brings criminal charges against the director of the Department of Finance, based on Rider’s articles and some independent investigation by the city attorney’s office. The director’s attorney says that she must have the names of Rider’s sources so that she can prepare her client’s defense. In part, she claims, there are people who would like to “get” the director (i.e., framed in criminal charges), and if those
are Rider’s sources they are not to be believed. The judge orders Rider to reveal his sources; he refuses. The judge holds him in contempt, and Rider appeals. The state does not have a shield law. However, the state’s courts have applied the generally accepted test to determine if reporters may keep sources secret. Should the appellate court order Rider to reveal his sources? Why or why not? What will be an ideal response?
Words like he, his, she, her, its, who, whom are pronouns. As “noun substitutes,” they add variety to their “alter-ego nouns.” In the following sentences, please identify each pronoun and tell us (if it is apparent) the pronoun’s antecedent (the noun that precedes it somewhere and to which the pronoun refers.)
a. Brenda announced that she will run for president.
b. It was she who solved the puzzle.
c. Both the accountant and the chief financial officer understood the problem and the potential solution, but only he was able to explain it properly to the media.
d. This is the book that was stolen. e. This book is not my favorite.
Generally, you will be more effective if you speak extemporaneously, the most common style of delivery
True False
Which of the following would NOT be considered a leader according to definitions presented in the text?
A. a chair or facilitator who has been appointed or elected to their position B. someone who becomes an informal leader by exerting influence toward achievement of a group's goal but who does not hold the formal position or role of a leader C. one member persuading another to sabotage a group goal D. a person who influences the behavior and attitudes of others through communication