All of the following are ways to customize your message to your audience EXCEPT

A) using audience members' names to relate information to specific people.
B) referring to a significant event that happened on the date of your speech.
C) referring to a recent or local news event.
D) avoiding mention of specific groups or organizations.


D

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Which of the following is not true of public television in the United States?

a. The FCC began liberalizing rules for commercial announcements on public television in 1981. b. A decline in donations by individuals to public television in the past 10 years has led to more need for corporate funding. c. PBS, the Public Broadcasting System, was created to distribute programs when the Johnson administration and foundations added money to the budget of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. d. Federal government support for public broadcasting has increased significantly in recent years.

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A funnel sequence asks questions that

a. go from the specific to the broad. b. are all at the same level. c. go from the broad to the universal. d. go from the broad to the specific.

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The 3 × 5 rule for designing effective slides is:

A. To have at least three images for every five text lines. B. Make sure the information on each slide can fit on a 3 × 5 card. C. No more than three lines with five words per line. D. None of these answers are correct.

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During your first session of this class, your instructor introduced him or herself and you probably respected his or her position as an authoritative figure in the classroom. Which of the following classification schema likely helped you organize that information?

A. physical constructs B. interaction constructs C. psychological constructs D. role constructs

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