COMM 111Z - Oregon State University
- Bobette Bushnell with complete
solutions 2025/2026
Stage fright - ANS ✔✔Anxiety over prospect of speaking in front of an audience
What makes us nervous? (3) - ANS ✔✔Fear of humiliation, being unprepared, pressure to
perform
How to reduce speech anxiety (6) - ANS ✔✔Acquire experience, prepare, think positively, select
appropriate topic, focus on the message, channel nervous energy (visual aids, move around)
Positive nervousness - ANS ✔✔Controlled nervousness that helps energize speaker for
presentation
What is public speaking? - ANS ✔✔The process or act of performing a presentation (or speech)
focused around an individual direct speech to a live audience in a structured, deliberate manner
in order to inform, influence, or entertain them
Components of main point (3) - ANS ✔✔Logical divisions, reasons, specific steps
Speech organizational pattern (5) - ANS ✔✔Chronologically, topically, spatially, cause & effect,
problem/solution
Types of connectives (4) - ANS ✔✔Transitions, internal preview, internal summary, signpost
- Bobette Bushnell with complete
solutions 2025/2026
Stage fright - ANS ✔✔Anxiety over prospect of speaking in front of an audience
What makes us nervous? (3) - ANS ✔✔Fear of humiliation, being unprepared, pressure to
perform
How to reduce speech anxiety (6) - ANS ✔✔Acquire experience, prepare, think positively, select
appropriate topic, focus on the message, channel nervous energy (visual aids, move around)
Positive nervousness - ANS ✔✔Controlled nervousness that helps energize speaker for
presentation
What is public speaking? - ANS ✔✔The process or act of performing a presentation (or speech)
focused around an individual direct speech to a live audience in a structured, deliberate manner
in order to inform, influence, or entertain them
Components of main point (3) - ANS ✔✔Logical divisions, reasons, specific steps
Speech organizational pattern (5) - ANS ✔✔Chronologically, topically, spatially, cause & effect,
problem/solution
Types of connectives (4) - ANS ✔✔Transitions, internal preview, internal summary, signpost
