When reasoning from specific instances in a persuasive speech, it is usually a good idea for a speaker to supplement the specific instances with testimony or statistics showing that the instances are typical.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)


True

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What four steps should a speaker follow to move from his or her basic ideas to the production of the

outline? What will be an ideal response?

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The growth of huge circulation newspapers ushered in an era of:

a. political news b. small news c. big news d. all of the above

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Matching

1) a learned system of knowledge, beliefs, values, attitudes behaviors, and norms shared by a group of people A) worldview 2) a distinct culture that exists within a larger culture B) co-culture 3) a dimension of culture that rewards personal achievements C) culture 4) cultural values D) gender 5) cultural context E) individualism 6) the process of communicating a group's culture from one generation to the next F) third culture 7) individual perceptions or perceptions by a culture or group of people about key beliefs and issues, such as death, God, and the meaning of life, which influence interaction with others G) what a given group of people desires or appreciates 8) socially learned and reinforced characteristics that include one's biological sex and psychological characteristics H) culture shock 9) genetically transmitted physical characteristics of a group of people I) enculturation 10) the feeling of stress and anxiety a person experiences when encountering a culture different from his or her own J) empathy 11) the belief that your cultural traditions and assumptions are superior to others K) cultural information not explicitly communicated through language, such as environmental or nonverbal cues 12) the establishment of common ground by joining separate cultures to create a new, more comprehensive and inclusive culture L) social decentering 13) a cognitive process that takes into account the other person's thoughts, feelings, values, background, and perspectives M) ethnocentrism 14) the process of developing an emotional reaction that is similar to the reaction being experienced by another—feeling what the other person is feeling N) race

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Loaded language consists of words that strongly slant perceptions and their meanings

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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