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Characteristics of Effective Speaking
Goal-Directed, Audience-Centered, and Ethical
Cognitive Restructuring
A method to help reduce communication anxiety by replacing irriational thoughts
Communication Apprehension
Broad term that refers to an individual's "fear or anxiety associated with either real or
anticipated communication with another person"
Cut-and-Paste Plagiarism
Taking bits and pieces of information from various sources and claiming them as your own or
without the use of proper citations
Excessive Collaboration
Completeing or writing an assignment or body of work with the help of another person and
without establishing proper credit to that person
Fabrication
The act of making up (or even leaving things out) in order to benefit your arguement
Incremental Plagiarism
,Failing to give credit for small bits of a presentation. Typically from misusing quations or
incorrect paraphrasing
Misrepresentation
The act of using an entire body of work and claiming it as your own
Plagiarism
Claiming someone elses ideas or words as your own
Presentational Speaking
Conveying information through speech to a public audience. Is less formal, reaches a smaller
amount of people, and is mkre interactive.
Skills Training
A way to deal with communication apprehension by improving communcation skills, such as
taking a communications course
Visualization
Another method to deal with communciation apprehension that involves one picturing
himself being successful
Self-Plagiarism
Using an idea or piece of evidence from one of your own previously developed texts in a new
body of work without properly citing
Systematic Desensitization
A type of counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually
increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli
, Attitude
An individual's evaluation of an object, event, policy, person
Audience Analysis
Learning about the diverse characteristics of the people who make up the audience
Captive Audiences
Listeners who are forced to attend your presentation
Closed-Ended Questions
Questions that can be answered in short or single word responses (Yes or No)
Demographics
Traits that describe your audience
Direct Methods
Asking audience members directly for their opinion by questionnaires, interviews, and so on
Favorable Audiences
The group of people receiving the presentation share the same attitudes that the presenter has
Focus Groups
A strategy to obtain data from a small group of people using interview questions
Friendly Audiences
Another name for a Favorable Audience
Hostile Audiences
Listeners who are in disagreement with the presenter's position
Correct Answers
Characteristics of Effective Speaking
Goal-Directed, Audience-Centered, and Ethical
Cognitive Restructuring
A method to help reduce communication anxiety by replacing irriational thoughts
Communication Apprehension
Broad term that refers to an individual's "fear or anxiety associated with either real or
anticipated communication with another person"
Cut-and-Paste Plagiarism
Taking bits and pieces of information from various sources and claiming them as your own or
without the use of proper citations
Excessive Collaboration
Completeing or writing an assignment or body of work with the help of another person and
without establishing proper credit to that person
Fabrication
The act of making up (or even leaving things out) in order to benefit your arguement
Incremental Plagiarism
,Failing to give credit for small bits of a presentation. Typically from misusing quations or
incorrect paraphrasing
Misrepresentation
The act of using an entire body of work and claiming it as your own
Plagiarism
Claiming someone elses ideas or words as your own
Presentational Speaking
Conveying information through speech to a public audience. Is less formal, reaches a smaller
amount of people, and is mkre interactive.
Skills Training
A way to deal with communication apprehension by improving communcation skills, such as
taking a communications course
Visualization
Another method to deal with communciation apprehension that involves one picturing
himself being successful
Self-Plagiarism
Using an idea or piece of evidence from one of your own previously developed texts in a new
body of work without properly citing
Systematic Desensitization
A type of counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually
increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli
, Attitude
An individual's evaluation of an object, event, policy, person
Audience Analysis
Learning about the diverse characteristics of the people who make up the audience
Captive Audiences
Listeners who are forced to attend your presentation
Closed-Ended Questions
Questions that can be answered in short or single word responses (Yes or No)
Demographics
Traits that describe your audience
Direct Methods
Asking audience members directly for their opinion by questionnaires, interviews, and so on
Favorable Audiences
The group of people receiving the presentation share the same attitudes that the presenter has
Focus Groups
A strategy to obtain data from a small group of people using interview questions
Friendly Audiences
Another name for a Favorable Audience
Hostile Audiences
Listeners who are in disagreement with the presenter's position
