How can a speaker establish positive ethos?

What will be an ideal response?


1. establish a reputation of trustworthiness (previous record) and 2. use evidence and sources
that the audience finds credible (association with trustworthy sources)

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During an exit interview, you should tell the personnel officer the absolute truth about your reasons for leaving and share your negative opinions and complaints about coworkers and superiors

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Compare and contrast the advantages and opportunities of written versus oral

communication.  Which do you prefer and why? What will be an ideal response?

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Grace and Kelly have been friends since kindergarten. They met in school and now that they are both married, they live just blocks from one another. These two women demonstrate a relationship of _____

a. choice b. circumstance c. habit d. similarity

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After a quarrelsome family gathering, Joshua realizes he has to do a better job of figuring out the emotional meaning of what family members say by interpreting their tone of voice, body tension, and facial expressions

Because Joshua primarily relies on the meanings of the words they use, he has a difficult time avoiding and resolving family-feud conflicts. Which of the characteristic of emotional intelligence should Joshua seek to improve? a) empathy. b) self-awareness. c) self-regulation. d) self-confidence. e) self-assertion.

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