COM 1000 Chapter 12 Exam
Questions with Complete A’s
Introduction - -the first part of your presentation, where you fulfill five
functions
- Five functions of an introduction - -1. Gain the audience's attention
2. Arouse interest
3. State the purpose or thesis of your speech
4. Establish your qualifications
5. Briefly forecast for listeners the organization of your speech and the way
you will develop your ideas
- Gaining audience attention - -1. bring to the presentation the object or
person about which you are going to speak
2. invite your audience to participate
3. let your clothing relate to your presentation
4. exercise your audience's imagination
5. start with sight or sound
- Body - -the largest part of the presentation, which contains the
arguments, evidence, and main content
- Five Main functions of the body - -1. increase what an audience knows
about a topic (Informative Presentation)
2. change an audience's attitudes or actions about a topic (persuasive
presentation)
3. present a limited number of arguments, stories and/or ideas
4. provide support for your arguments and/or ideas
5. indicate the sources of your information, arguments, and supporting
materials
- Outlining - -a written plan that uses symbols, margins, and content to
reveal order, importance, and substance of a presentation
- Three good reasons for outlining - -1. it is a skill that can be used to
develop written compositions, to write notes in class, and to compose
speeches
2. it reinforces important skills, such as determining what is most important,
what arguments and evidence will work best with this audience, and roughly
how much time and effort will go into each part of your presentation
3. outlining encourages you to speak conversatinoally, because you do not
have every word in front of you
Questions with Complete A’s
Introduction - -the first part of your presentation, where you fulfill five
functions
- Five functions of an introduction - -1. Gain the audience's attention
2. Arouse interest
3. State the purpose or thesis of your speech
4. Establish your qualifications
5. Briefly forecast for listeners the organization of your speech and the way
you will develop your ideas
- Gaining audience attention - -1. bring to the presentation the object or
person about which you are going to speak
2. invite your audience to participate
3. let your clothing relate to your presentation
4. exercise your audience's imagination
5. start with sight or sound
- Body - -the largest part of the presentation, which contains the
arguments, evidence, and main content
- Five Main functions of the body - -1. increase what an audience knows
about a topic (Informative Presentation)
2. change an audience's attitudes or actions about a topic (persuasive
presentation)
3. present a limited number of arguments, stories and/or ideas
4. provide support for your arguments and/or ideas
5. indicate the sources of your information, arguments, and supporting
materials
- Outlining - -a written plan that uses symbols, margins, and content to
reveal order, importance, and substance of a presentation
- Three good reasons for outlining - -1. it is a skill that can be used to
develop written compositions, to write notes in class, and to compose
speeches
2. it reinforces important skills, such as determining what is most important,
what arguments and evidence will work best with this audience, and roughly
how much time and effort will go into each part of your presentation
3. outlining encourages you to speak conversatinoally, because you do not
have every word in front of you
