If your topic is well-known to you but off-beat and relatively new to the research world, which question might be most helpful to ask yourself?
a. Am I interested in the topic?
b. Is the topic of interest or importance to my audience?
c. Am I likely to find sufficient authoritative supporting material in the time allotted for re-searching and developing the speech?
d. Do I understand the topic enough to undertake and interpret my research?
c
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Looking the audience in the eye can make an inexperienced speaker feel
A. invasive. B. protected. C. hostile. D. vulnerable.
In the proposition, "Changing the semester structure to a ten-week semester with a
six-day academic week would achieve substantial savings for NMU," artificial presumption would: (a) require the opponent to begin argumentation because this is a substantial change. (b) suggest that we presently believe a semester structure with a six-day academic week will not necessarily achieve substantial savings over the present structure. (c) suggest that we presently believe that reducing the semester from 15 to 10 weeks will achieve substantial savings. (d) require the advocate to define "substantial savings."
You begin your speech by stating that "global temperature changes are damaging our planet." You then provide examples that illustrate this claim. This choice to organize your information in this way is an example of what type of reasoning?
A) deductive B) inductive C) warrant D) claim E) qualifier
Feedback on the choices you make as supervisor comes in the form
of A. face to face conversations. B. complaints to the person above you. C. anonymous suggestions. D. union representatives. E. any of the above.