Speech

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Intrapersonal Communication

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Communicating with yourself through your thoughts

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Audience Analysis

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Learning about the diverse characteristics of the people who make up the audience

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Speech-planning process

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System you use to prepare a speech

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Impersonal Communication

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Communication between people about general information, such as saying “hi” to someone in the hallway

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Speech-making process

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Process of giving a speech to the audience

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Speaking expressively

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Using various vocal techniques so you sound a bit more dramatic than you would in casual conversation

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Rhetorical devices:

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Language techniques that create and hold audience attention and help audience members remember what you said in your speech

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Empower

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To make more confident and assertive

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Interpersonal Communication

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Communication between two people who have a relationship with each other

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Plagiarism

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Stealing and passing off the ideas, words, or created works of someone else as your own

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Ethics

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A set of moral principles that a society, group or individual holds that distinguish right from wrong and good behavior from bad behavior

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Nonverbal Communication

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The way you stand when giving a speech and the way you use your eyes, face and hands

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Public Speaking

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A formal presentation made by a speaker to an audience

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Listening

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Receiving spoken communication from another person and making an effort to hear and understand what the person is saying

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Attention span

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Length of time you can concentrate and listen effectively

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Monotone

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An unchanging tone without rise or fall in the speaker’s voice

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Critical listening

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Evaluate what the speaker is saying and decide on the value of the message

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Understanding

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The ability to assign accurate meaning to what was said

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Remembering

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Being able to recall and retain the information you heard

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Active listening

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Includes identifying how ideas are organized, asking questions, silently paraphrasing, watching nonverbal clues and taking notes

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Paraphrase

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Restating the speakers meaning in your own words

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Research

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Investigating a subject to learn the facts about it

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Credentials

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Your experience or education that qualify you to speak with authority on a specific subject

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Primary source

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First-hand accounts that you conduct or those written by people who were part of the original event or research

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Follow-up question

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A question you ask during an interview that results from the answers to your primary questions

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Open question

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Broad based questions that ask the interviewee to provide perspective, ideas, information, values, goals or opinions

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Closed question

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Narrowly focused questions that require only brief answers such as yes or no

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Neutral question

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Questions asked in a way that does not direct a person’s answer

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Leading question

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Questions asked in a way that suggest you have a preferred answer

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Critical analysis

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The process of evaluating what you have heard to determine a speech’s completeness

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Credibility

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A speaker’s ability to inspire trust and belief

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Critique

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A formal assessment of a speech that requires you to analyze and evaluate a speech’s effectiveness according to how well the speaker meets specific key criteria

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Constructive critique

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An analysis of a speech that evaluates how well a speaker meets a specific speaking goal while following the rules for good speaking and recommends how the speech might be improved

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Speech Plan

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A strategy for achieving your speech goals.

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Speech Goal

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A statement of what you want your audience to know, believe or do.

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Audience adaptation

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Process of writing your speech to meet the needs and interests of the listeners

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Demographics

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Characteristics of a group of people

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Outline

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A plan of main points and supporting detail that you want to cover in your speech

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Chronological order

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A method of arranging things in relation to when they happen in time

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Topical order

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A method of arranging information by subjects, facts or points

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Visual aid

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An object, picture, photo, chart or other image that the audience can see

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Eye contact

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A form of nonverbal communication that occurs when two people look at one another for a few seconds

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Animated delivery

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A lively, energetic, enthusiastic and dynamic delivery

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Speak clearly

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Speaking so the audience can make out what you are saying.

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Pitch

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How high or low the sound of your voice is

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Quality of voice

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The tone that distinguishes your voice from everyone else’s

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Accent

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The speech habits of people from a specific country, region of a country or even a state or city.

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Articulation

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The way you use your mouth and lips to form words

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Vocal expressiveness

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The variety you create in your voice through changing pitch, volume and rate; the expressing of certain words ; and using pauses

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Stress

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To emphasize certain words by speaking them more loudly than they rest of the sentence

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Pause

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A moment of silence that enhances the meaning of an idea

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Gestures

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How you move your hands, arms and fingers

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Movement

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Changing the position of your entire body