Evaluating your current listening skills is an essential first step to becoming a better listener. Based on what you have learned about listening, identify an area of weakness in your own listening habits and describe the steps you could take to improve.

What will be an ideal response?


Answers will vary, but students should draw on the poor listening behaviors they learned about in the chapter, as well as at least one of the skills listed in Section 6-8.

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Is a captive audience or voluntary audience more difficult to address? Explain your answer

and provide an example for support. What will be an ideal response?

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Keeping in mind the people to whom you are speaking is important throughout the

preparation and delivery of a speech. Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Oral communication skills are in high demand in the work place.

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

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Advertorials are ads that appear in magazines and take on the appearance of genuine editorial content.

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

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