How does "knowing your audience" help build your confidence as a speaker?

What will be an ideal response?


The more you can anticipate the kind of reaction your listeners will have to your speech, the more comfortable you will be in delivering your message. An audience-centered speaker focuses on connecting to listeners rather than focusing on fear.

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Anderson, Crowell and Pearce argue that

a. People mostly use the Internet for information seeking and rarely ever for communication b. People use the Internet mostly for work and second for communication c. People mostly use the Internet for communication and far less for information seeking d. People use the Internet most to get information, and the vast majority also use it for communicating e. None of the above

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In relationships that are deteriorating, the relationship licenses become more limited or may be withdrawn

Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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Define selective attention and selective exposure, and explain the strategies available to a speaker to overcome these problems. Identify which strategies you believe are most likely to succeed.

What will be an ideal response?

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Marlon worked on a story about the increasing pollution in his city. It was a video report in which he included photographs of the city adversely affected by pollution. He recorded his voice, which went along with the video

Which format of the story did he work on? a) Voice-over b) Voicer c) Voice/Sound bite d) Voice

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