Describe some steps speakers can take to help listeners form a good impression of their ethos.

What will be an ideal response?


- Approach the front of the room with confidence.
- Make eye contact with audience members.
- Show appropriate emotions in facial expressions to project your sincerity to the audience.
- Speak slowly and distinctly to be easily understood.
- Pause briefly after completing the speech, then walk confidently back to your seat.

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What will be an ideal response?

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This device enables better signal quality over standard telephone lines:

a. compressor b. codec c. limiter d. automatic gain control e. multiplexer f. sub mixer

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Dave has signed up to be last in the speaking order because his twenty-first birthday was the day before and he just had to celebrate. He feels so tired and hung over that he doesn't even realize it's time for him to speak until the teacher calls his name...twice. What is Dave experiencing?

A) internal noise B) an encoding-decoding breakdown C) external noise D) poor channel selection

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Explain your personal orientation toward uncertainty accepting and uncertainty rejecting. How is your personal orientation similar to or distinct from the larger culture in which you live?

What will be an ideal response?

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