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Define Public Speaking - ANS ✔✔a way of making your ideas public or sharing them with other
people and influencing them
Differences between public speaking and conversation - ANS ✔✔Ps is more highly structured.
requires more formal language. requires a different method of delivery.
Stage fright - ANS ✔✔Anxiety over the prospect of giving a speech in front of an audience.
Adrebakube - ANS ✔✔A hormone released into the bloodstream in response to physical or
mental stress.
Positive nervousness - ANS ✔✔Contrlled nervousness that helps energize a speaker for her
presentation.
Critical thinking - ANS ✔✔Focus, organized thinking about such things as the logical
relationships among ideas, and the difference between fact and opinion
Speaker - ANS ✔✔The person who is presenting an oral message to a listener
Seven elements of a speech - ANS ✔✔Speaker, message, channel, listener, feedback,
interference, situation
Channel - ANS ✔✔The means by which a message is communicated
, Interference - ANS ✔✔Anything that impedes with the communication of a message.
Ethnocentrism - ANS ✔✔The belief that ones own group our culture is superior to all other
groups or cultures
Ethics - ANS ✔✔The branch of philosophy that deals with issues of rights and wrong in human
affairs.
Plagerism - ANS ✔✔Presenting another persons own language or ideas as ones own.
Global plagerism- - ANS ✔✔Stealing a speech entirely from one single source
Patchwork plagarism - ANS ✔✔Stealing ideas or language from two or three sources
Incremental Plagiarism - ANS ✔✔Failing to give credit for a particular part of a speech that was
borrowed from other people
Extemporaneous speech - ANS ✔✔A carefully prepared and rehearsed speech that is presented
from a brief set of notes.
Topic - ANS ✔✔The subject of the speech
General purpose - ANS ✔✔the broad goal of a speech
Specific purpose - ANS ✔✔A single infinitive phrase that states precisely what a speaker hopes
to accomplish