Define the special responsibilities of a public speaker

If you say "I organized my speech this way because it didn't seem like there was any other way to do it" you're demonstrating __________.

A. responsibility
B. irresponsibility
C. rationalization
D. irrational thought
E. none of these choices


Answer: B

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Fill in the blank with correct word

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When one student fell ill and was hospitalized with bacterial meningitis, a contagious

and sometimes deadly infection, the president of the Parent-Teacher Association asked the principal to dismiss school for the rest of the week in case other students had been infected and were now contagious. How should the principal evaluate this request? A) Find the request legitimate, since the seriousness of the matter is more crucial than the actual number of cases. B) Find the request illogical, since only one student was diagnosed and is now receiving medical attention. C) Find the request unacceptable, unless other students begin showing signs of the infection. D) Defer his evaluation until he has visited the hospital to determine how ill the student is and to what extent the condition is typical.

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Mrs. Grundy believes that boarding schools provide the best education because after attending such a school, she found herself well prepared for college. The fallacy in her thinking is

A. she has treated an inference as a fact. B. the experience used as evidence has not been shown to be representative. C. she has not generalized. D. Mrs. Grundy may not know what she is talking about without having observed it firsthand. E. she didn't really go to boarding school.

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