Why is it important to research both the local and national conversations about an issue? How do the conversations inform and influence each other? What questions should advocates be answering when researching an issue?

What will be an ideal response?


The students should focus on how local and national conversations provide advocates with
additional resources (e.g., they provide different narratives and arguments which the advocate
might not otherwise know. It allows the advocate to become better informed and establish
credibility.) In response to how the conversations inform and influence each other, students
might discuss how they provide different information that helps to constitute and inform people’s
knowledge about an issue. The textbook, for instance, discusses how local news might contain
reference to a specific environmental issue that might not be reported by national news.
However, national news might report on larger environmental issues that also inform the public
about the problem.

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In his speech, Erik examined the number of violent crimes that had been most

recently reported on campus and from that projected the likelihood that someone in the class would fall victim. His use of statistical data to establish probability is referred to as ____. A) descriptive statistics B) inferential statistics C) a mode D) a median

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

1.Recognizing what you select from your environment and what it represents is a part of the organization function of the perception process. 2.Everyone tends to interpret and assign meaning to sensory information in the same way. 3.People tend to be more cognitively complex about things they have little interest or experience in.

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If you are asked a question at the end of your speech that you do not know the answer to, you should make something up so that you can quickly move on to the next question

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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In the speech communication process, anything that blocks or hinders the communication of a message is called

A. blockage. B. obstruction. C. interference. D. confusion.

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