Friday, June 23, 2006

Final Study Guide: Coms 301 Summer 2006

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

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sandra, Thanks for the effort you made in posting these study guides for the final.. It will greatly help me (us!!) in advance on what we needed to know...

DaNi D.

Anonymous said...

Thanks Sandra, this study guide is exactly what I need to keep me on the right track. You're the best!!

Nora Jordan

Anonymous said...

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.

Heather Jones said...

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.