A theater buff is doing a persuasive speech with arguments based on questions of fact, arguing that Shakespeare had a ghost writer. She will want to emphasize

a. emotional appeals.
b. personal interest.
c. uncertainty avoidance.
d. logical proof.


Answer: d

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Tarryn is an Australian university student. Working on a group project with her classmates, she noticed that some of the intercultural students in her group dealt with the conflict differently. She thought that the foreign students should have been more upfront, like the Australian students within the group, and that their approach simply caused more problems. Which stage of Bennett’s DMIS model best illustrates Tarryn’s level of intercultural sensitivity?

A. Denial. B. Defence. C. Minimization. D. Adaptation.

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A deductive argument starts from a specific instance and moves toward a generalization

A. True B. False

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Families dropping students off for the 2015–16 school year at Old Dominion University (ODU) were greeted by ______.

A. offensive music B. offensive chanting C. offensive banners D. offensive T-shirts

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Houston and Kramarae offer three strategies for resisting the process of silencing. Describe these strategies. Provide two additional strategies that you believe would be useful for resisting the silencing process.

What will be an ideal response?

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