COMS 301 FINAL EXAM: Your own oh-so-helpful STUDY GUIDE
Chapter 2
SECTIONS
Understanding Nervousness
Building Confidence
Consider Audience
Vocab: general purpose, specific purpose, main ideas, invention
Chapter 3
SECTIONS
Listening Ethically
Be sensitive and tolerant to differences
Vocab: ethics, free speech, patchwork plagiarism, oral citation, written citation,
Chapter 4
SECTIONS
Information Overload
Predjudice
Listening and critical thinking
Vocab: facts, inferences, critical thinking, critical listening, evidence, reasoning, rhetorical criticism
Chapter 5
SECTIONS
Adapt to your Audience
Culture Ethnicity and Race
Religion
Identifying Nonverbal audience cues
Vocab: open-ended questions, values, target audience, ethnocentrism
Chapter 6
SECTIONS
Select and Narrow your topic
General Purpose
Specific Purpose
Chapter 7
SECTIONS
Personal Knowledge and Experience
Accuracy
Vocab: page 157 basic MLA format
Chapter 8
SECTIONSAnalogies : Literal Analogies, Figurative Analogies
Vocab :opinion, expert testimony, lay testimony
Chapter 9
Vocab: Chronological, recency, topical organization, primacy, complexity, signpost
Chapter 10
SECTIONS
Purpose of Introductions
Preview Main Ideas
Effective Introductions
Purpose of Conclusions
Summarize the Speech
Vocab: closure, rhetorical question, anecdote, credibility
Chapter 11
Vocab: mapping, figure 11.2 (see p. 250), preparation outline
Chapter 12
SECTIONS
Oral Style
Use Unbiased Language
Vocab: Denotation, connotation, metaphor, repetition, suspension
Chapter 13
Vocab: Nonverbal communication, extemporaneous speaking, inflection, picture on 294
Chapter 14
SECTIONS
Keep Sights and Sounds simple
Overhead Transparencies
Vocab: font
Review guidelines for using presentation aids (9 of them, ends on p 327)
Chapter 15
Vocab: Speech to inform, pedagogy, andragogy
Chapter 16
SECTION
Putting Persuasive Principles into Action
Vocab: persuasion, cognitive dissonance, figure 16.1, p. 360,
Chapter 17
Vocab: ethos, initial credibility, derived credibility, logos, inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning, syllogism, fallacy
Fallacies: Bandwagon (p 390), Hasty Generalization, Either-Or, Non-sequitor
Chapter 18: Toasts, introductory speeches, acceptance, eulogy, after-dinner speaking
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Baggy wants to say thanks as well Sandra....this study guide made my studying process a lot smoother and less hectic. I knew exactly what I needed to study so therefore I was not overstudying nor was I understudying. I feel confident in being successful on the final.
Baggy wants to say thanks as well Sandra....this study guide made my studying process a lot smoother and less hectic. I knew exactly what I needed to study so therefore I was not overstudying nor was I understudying. I feel confident in being successful on the final.
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