When the main point ideas of your speech are not obvious, you should first:
A) ?list the ideas you believe relate to your specific goal.
B) ?eliminate ideas that you believe the audience already understands.
C) ?eliminate ideas that might be too complicated to understand.
D) ?check to see if some of the ideas can be grouped together.
A
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A. phenomenological approach B. positivistic/empirical approach C. critical approach D. interpretive approach
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A. He decodes his message in a way he thinks only Chantal will understand. B. He changes the cultural context of the message in a way he thinks only Chantal will understand. C. He changes the temporal context of the message in a way he thinks only Chantal will understand. D. He encodes his message in a way he thinks only Chantal will understand.
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