Which of the following is a way to determine what the main points of your speech should be?
a. Use the material you have that will be the most thought provoking and challenging for your audience
b. Determine if your speech will seem incomplete or nonsensical if you do not include or develop a particular idea.
c. Ask your audience what about your topic they are most interested in.
d. Arrange all the research you collected by subject and allow that to guide you towards your potential main points.
b
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Anthropologist Edward T. Hall studies spatial relationships and how the distance between people communicates information about their relationship. He refers to this phenomenon as
a. territoriality. b. markers. c. proxemics. d. chronemics. e. kinesics.
The statement "I do hope that you will exercise your right to vote" is more appropriate in a persuasive speech than in an informative one.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
In what ways do changes in today's workplaces affect your need for communication abilities?
A. Employers are asking that people be good at listening, oral communication, and interpersonal communication, not only at specific job skills. B. Organizations are using more and more teams that require abilities in leadership and teamwork. C. The workplace is becoming much more diverse and you need to communicate well across culture and gender differences. D. All of the above. E. None of the above.
Lucia is confident that rainforests have the greatest level of biodiversity on earth, but she isn't sure what percentage of all species live there. She thinks that Professor John Washington may have said it was 20 percent in one of his books. So, she uses that number in her speech and attributes it to him. What unethical behavior has Lucia engaged in?
A. fabricating evidence B. plagiarism C. improper citation D. accidentally misguiding her audience