Friday, March 02, 2007

Study Guide: Midterm 2007

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Anonymous said...

Chapters 4 – 6
Study Guide
By Diana Sidener & Co.

Chapter 4: Listening
Terms:
Select – Single out a message from several competing messages.

Attend – Select incoming info for further processing.

Understand – Attach meaning to stimuli.

Remember – Recall ideas and info.

Prejudice – A preconceived opinion

Receiver Apprehension – The fear of misinterpreting a message.

Critical Listening – The ability to evaluate what a person hears.

Critical Thinking – The ability to make judgments.

Facts – Information based on a truth.

Inference – A conclusion based on the partial information.

Evidence – The facts, examples, opinions, and statistics that a speaker uses to support a conclusion.

Logic – A formal system of rules used to reach a conclusion.

Reasoning – The drawing conclusion from evidence.

Rhetorical Criticism – Using a method or standards to evaluate the effectiveness and appropriateness of messages.

Chapter 5: Analyzing your Audience
Terms:
Audience Adaptation – Ethically
using info to analyze an audience to the message is clear.

Audience Analysis – Examining info about the expected listeners.

Demographics – Info about the age, sexual orientation, race, gender, educational level, and the religious views of an audience.

Demographic Audience Analysis –
Examining demographic info to help develop an effective message.

Sex – Biology as in reflected in the anatomy.

Gender – Culturally constructed and psychologically based perception of one’s self as feminine or masculine.

Culture – Learned system of knowledge, behavior, attitudes, beliefs, values, and norms that is shared by a group of people.

Ethnicity – National religious heritage.

Race – A person’s biological heritage.

Ethnocentrism – Attitude that your own culture is superior to others.
Socioeconomic Status – A measure of an individual’s place within a social group based on various factors, including income and education.

Target audience – Specific segment of an audience that you want to influence.

Psychological Audience Analysis – Analyze the attitudes, beliefs and values of an audience to help develop an effective message.

Attitude – A person’s likes or dislikes.

Belief – A person’s perception of what is true or false.

Value – Concept of right or wrong.

Situational Audience Analysis – Adapting your speech to the time and place, audience size and occasion.

Open-ended Question – A question that allows for unrestricted answers.

Closed-ended Question – Questions that offer answers to choose from.

Chapter 6: Developing Your Speech
Terms:
Brainstorming – A technique used to generate ideas.

Web Directory – A webpage consisting of categories that lead to other websites.

General Purpose – To inform, persuade, and/or entertain.
Specific Purpose – What the speaker wants the audience to do/know after the speech.

Behavioral Objective – Wording of a specific purpose in terms of desired audience behavior.

Central Idea – A one sentence summary of a speech.
• Being able to state your "point" in a single, clear idea is Judith Humphrey's definition of the central idea. (From Quiz #2)

Main Ideas – Subdivisions of the central idea.

Blueprint – The central idea plus a preview of the main ideas.

pauld said...

Opps, Chapter 4 to 6 beat us to it, we are slightly out of order, but here is what we came up with (Euchay, Oby, Saliy, Paul & Alicia in abstensia)

Blogging one chapter at at time to make it easier on your eyes...
Chapter 1: Introduction to Public Speaking

1) Empowerment: Personal power (influence, leadership) gained by competent confident speech, or speech acts. (p. 4)

2) Source: The source is the speaker. (p. 8)

3) Encode: To change ideas and images into verbal or non-verbal symbols. (p. 8)

4) Code: the verbal or non-verbal symbol. Letters of the alphabet and stop signs are both symbols. (The letter symbolized the sound bit within a spoken word). (p. 8)

5) Message: Both the content, and the delivery, of speech. (p. 8)

6) Decode: To change symbols back into ideas and images. (p. 8)

7) Channel: the visual and auditory means of speech (or speech act) transmission. (p. 8)

8) Receiver: the listener, the audience. (p. 8)

9) External noise: outside sound that interferences speech. (p. 8)

10) Internal noise: physiological or psychological inference within a speaker or listener. (p. 8)

11) Feedback: verbal or non-verbal response to a message or speaker. (p. 8)

12) Context: The environment of the speech. (p. 9)

13) Declamation: the delivery of a famous speech. (p. 10)

14) Elocution: No, not electrocution. Elocution is the use of emotion, via posture, movement, gestures, facial expression, and voice in speaking. (p. 10)

---Paul DeLong

pauld said...

Opps, Chapter 4 to 6 beat us to it, but here is the 2nd thing the "Chapter 1 to 3" group came up with (Euchay, Oby, Saliy, Paul & Alicia in abstensia. Chapter Two says you can read the handwriting (p. 36-37), but the writing is not on the wall on that one; it's in the Blog. :)

Chapter 2 Overview of the Speechmaking Process

1) Speech Topic: The central focus of the speech content. (p. 26)

2) General Purpose: The overall goal of a speech: to perform, to entertain, or to persuade.
(p. 27)

3) Specific Purpose: A brief statement of what you want from the audience as an outcome: what they should be able to know, feel or do as a result of your speech. (p. 27)

4) Central Idea: A one sentence summary of the speech content. (p. 28)

5) Main Idea: The Point ! That is, what it's all about. The central thought of the whole speech. (p. 29)

6) Invention: Development or discovery of ideas and/or insights. (p. 29)

7) Disposition: An organization and arrangement of ideas or illustrations. (p. 31)

---Paul DeLong

pauld said...

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Chapter 3: Ethics and Free Speech

1) Free Speech: a legally protected expression of thought by word or act. (p. 44)

2) Ethics: beliefs, values, and morals by which we decide right from wrong. (p. 44)

3) 1st Ammendment: The First Ammendment to the United States Constitution, and the First Article in the Bill of Rights of the USA, which guarantees the right of free speech. (p. 45)

4) Speech Act: Any physical act that is an expression of Free Speech. Flag burning is an example of a speech act. (p. 46)

5) Ethical Speech: Speech that is honest, tolerant and responsible. (p. 47)

6) Accommodation: showing sensitivity to the needs, feelings, interest, and background of others (especially your audience, or the speaker). (p. 48)

7) Plagiarism: representing the ideas or words of another, especially an authority, as your own.
(p. 49)

8) Patchwork Plagarism: Failure to give proper credit to the author for words or phrases that are "compelling" (Beebee and Beebee, 2003) words. (p. 49)

9) Oral Citation: acknowledging the source of information, words, or ideas, via listing such things as author, title of work cited, publication date, etc., in the telling of your speech. (p. 50)

10) Written Citation: acknowledging the source of information, words, or ideas, via listing such things as author, title of work cited, publication date, etc., written in a format that matches a conventional style guide (MLA or APA, for example). "Who ! Who!" says the Owl (Site). --- Paul DeLong

Anonymous said...

Chapters 7-9
(Chanel, Fatana, See, and Barira)

Chapter 7 Gathering Supporting Materials

--Internet: bunch of onnected computers
--World Wide Web: fst info delivery system
--Website: on www including multiple web pages
--Webpage: individual file or screen, linking to larger sites
--URL: address of a website or webpage
--Browser; software accessing website or webpage
--Hyperlink: clored/underlined link to other page
--Bookmark: saves url for future reference
--Directory: sitedirecting specifically to somewhere else
--Search engine:catalog/index...ex yahoo or google
--Stacks: collection of book inlibrary
--Card catalog: a file of info about books in library
--Periodical Index: listing of biographical data for articles in groups and journals in a period of time
--Full Text: www or cd rom providing texts of entries.
--Newspaper index: listing of biographical data for articles pulished in a newspaper
--Preliminary bibliography: list of potential resources to be used in speech prep

Chapter 8 Supporting your speech

--Illustration: a story that provides an idea, issue, or problem
--Extended illustration: a detailed example
--Brief illustration: an unelaborated example
--hypothetical illustration: an example that might happen
--Description: a satement that provides a word picture of something
--Explanation: a statement that makes clear of how something is done
--definition: a satement about what something means
--definition by classification: dictionary definition
--operational definition: a statement that shows how a word or phrase works or what it does
--analogy: a comparison between two things
--literal analogy: a comparison between two similar things
--Figurative analogy: a comparison between two essentialy dissimilar things
--Statistics: numeric data that summarize examples
--Primary Source: the individual or organization that collects information or data
--Secondary Source: an ndividual, organization that reports info or data gathered by another entity
--Opinion: a statement made by an individual
--Expert Testimony: an opinion offered by someone who is an authoriy
--Lay testimony: an opinion offered by a nonexpert who has firsthand experience
--Literary quotation: an opinion from a writer who speaks in a memorable and often poetic way

Chapter 9 Organizing your Speech

--Chronological organization: organization by time or sequence
--Recency: arranged by least to the most important
--Topical Organization: organized by speakers discretion, recency, primary, or complexity
--Primary: arranged by most to least important
--Complexity: arranged by simle to the more complex
--Spatial organization: organized according to location or position
--Cause and effect organization: organized by discussing a situation and its causes, or a situation and its effects
--Problem and Solution: organized by discussing a prolem and various solutions
--Soft evidence: support based mainly on opinion
--Hard evidence: factual examples
--Signposts: a verbal or nonverbal signal that speakers used to move from one idea to the next


Chanel Cameron

Anonymous said...

Chapters 10 and 19
credibility: attitude listeners hold towards a speaker.
Anecdote: illustration or brief story
Rhetorical Question: Question to provoke thought
Closure: conclusion of quality that sounds finished

Sm. Group Communication: 3-12 people sharing common purpose, influence
Team: Sm. group that works together intuitively
Reflective thinking: structuring a problem solving discussion
1. identify, 2. analyze, 3. generate solutions, 4. decide, 5. test
Analysis: examine causes, effects, history of problem
Criteria: standards for acceptable solutions to a problem
Consensus: support and commitment from all group members to a decision
Transformational leadership: influencing others by inspiration, building and relationships.
Agenda: written description of items/issues for discussion
Symposium: public discussion with short speeches
Forum Presentation: Q and A session followed by symposium
Panel discussion: group discussion on issues/ problems--make recommendations

pauld said...

Ah, in Druidic Celtic Culture, they might call it the witchin' hour; in whaling culture they might call it midnight oil; in our culture, we might be the college that never sleeps; but in any event, if you are getting dozy, and you wish someone took bare bones outline notes of all the chapters (1-10 + 19) to get you through the night; well, someone did: e-mail me at greentam@comcast.net before 10:30 tonite and I will get them to you tonite. I will also check one more time a.m. tomorrow before work. Slightly paraphrasing John Lennon, "whatever study strategy gets you through the nite, it's alright." --- Paul DeLong