Pausing and establishing eye contact or audience contact before a speech decreases a speaker's credibility

Indicate whether the statement is true or false


False

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If you are serious about your own speech development, you should ________

A) Ask your friends for their feedback B) listen to yourself on a tape recorder C) concentrate on annunciation D) slow down and take it word by word

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A transition and an internal preview are the same

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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The process of reasoning from a general statement or principle to a specific, certainconclusion is known as

a. inductive reasoning. b. deductive reasoning. c. reasoning by analogy. d. generalization.

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According to the text, when Jennifer Ahern and her colleagues surveyed citizens of New

York City after the events of September 11, 2001, they concluded that:

a. exposure to media coverage about the traumatic events are probably not associated with any increase in stress levels on the part of media consumers. b. exposure to media coverage about the traumatic events probably reduced stress levels on the part of media consumers. c. exposure to media coverage about the traumatic events could possibly increase stress levels on the part of media consumers. d. there was less coverage about the traumatic events in the New York media market when compared to other markets around the country. e. reenacted media violence; fictional depictions of violence are just as harmful to viewers as reality depictions.

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