Provide and briefly describe three of the guidelines for speaking to inform
What will be an ideal response?
There are ten guidelines for speaking to inform. The first is to stress your informative
purpose. If a speaker cannot remain objective, then the informative speech will fail. A speaker
should stress that his or her goal is to provide information, not advocate a particular position.
Second, informative speakers need to be specific. An informative speech is an "opportunity to
tell your audience a lot about a little"
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When searching for information on your speech topic, you come across a Web site that says
it has not been updated since 2004 . This violates what basic component of evaluating electronic information? a. expertise b. objectivity c. accuracy d. timeliness e. audience
According to the Impact / Money box, “Susan G. Komen Foundation Discovers the Price of
Poor Public Relations,” which of the following is true? a. Their “Race for the Cure” for heart disease was blacklisted by social media in 2011. b. Their founder and CEO, Nancy Komen, provided an immediate and successful social media response to a communication crisis. c. Their problems stemmed from their decision to defund the controversial organization, Planned Parenthood. d. CNN broke the story January 31, 2010 about Komen’s PR problems.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1.The producers of news programs are more interested in the news of the day than in the size of the audience. 2.When journalists raise the issue of professionalism, they typically try to distinguish between mainstream practitioners and bloggers. 3.Journalists are required by professional standards not make up facts to fill in the gaps of their stories. 4.It is very easy to keep a news story unbiased. 5.Most events and issues have at least two sides, often many more sides.
The amount of __________ that a person has can influence the complexity of the points, the language used, and the kinds of sources cited by the speaker
A. Money B. Children C. Education D. Culture E. Bias