This refers to the meaning of the language overall, including the individual words that are used and the meaning created when these words are combined.

This refers to the structure of language.

This refers to the purpose of the communication, including why communication occurs.

These are body language cues.

Asking questions of your audience, referencing and calling out members of the audience when appropriate, and even just acknowledging and thanking them for their time are all effective ways of what?

Public speaking is not just a one-way communication of ideas from speaker to audience; an effective public speaker is one who engages and interacts with his or her audience

Your non-verbal body- language cues such as facial expression, gesture, posture, and eye contact all add layers of interaction with your audience. Pay close attention to your non-verbal cues as you speak to ensure that your mannerisms match your message.

The most compelling speeches are those in which the speaker doesn't interacts with his or her audience.

While you may not necessarily engage in a two-way dialogue with your audience, there are plenty of ways to interact with them verbally.

Even an unintentional gesture — crossed arms, a slouch, a frown — doesn't connote a very different meaning to your audience than the words you’re actually saying.

Good informative speeches contain several different source citations throughout the speech.

Most public speaking texts discuss three general purposes for speeches: to inform, to persuade, and to entertain.

Refers to an audience’s perception that the speaker is well prepared and qualified to speak on a topic.

In this role, you want to select a topic that holds a high degree of interest for you.

It exists when the message received is the same as the message which the sender intended to send.

You are not asking your audience to act or convincing them to change their mind. You are teaching them something and allowing them to decide for themselves what to do with the information.

Even if you plan to give a speech about an activity you have done all your life, you will still need to seek out additional sources for your speech. You should cite and use your own experiences with the topic

Just remember that to teach, we first must show that we are worthy of our audience’s attention.

This consists of reading a fully scripted speech.

It is about delivering information unambiguously so that the receiver can decode it correctly.

A concrete message is specific, tangible, vivid.

Effective communication considers the receiver’s background and points of view.

It is “Do’s” in a speech delivery defined as: Your audience need time to digest the story before they get the punch line. So, give them time to get it.

This involves delivering a message on the spur of the moment, as when someone is asked to “say a few words.”

it consists of reciting a scripted speech from memory. Memorization allows the speaker to be free of notes.

it consists of delivering a speech in a conversational fashion using notes. This is the style most speeches call for.

According to the audience, subject, needs of the receiver and environment.

Use the psychology and tactics of appeals to make your message more effectively to the audience.

ask yourself, “Is my information needed by my audience? How much do they know? How much might they want to know?”

Imagine you are telling a story without a script. You will say some words louder than most and change your inflection on others.

Be put off by a heckle. You can pre-prepare a couple of responses to a noisy member of the crowd.

Talk slowly. If it takes 12 minutes, not nine, it does not matter at all.

Just read it out. Great material is irrelevant if it is delivered badly. You will be much more natural when you are not reading straight from the page

You get called into a meeting to tell them the latest on an issue.

A televised news report (given using a teleprompter) seen on television.

Another way of organizing a speech on a particular topic is to look at the subject in terms of cause and effect.

If you wish to evoke an image of something that has various parts, and those parts are distinguished by geography, then organize your speech using this pattern.

This pattern is similar to the cause-and-effect pattern but is typically used when the speaker is trying to persuade the audience to take a particular viewpoint.

It revolves around the type of relationship with the audience, the division of time, and enthusiasm Time-Sequence Pattern

general age, gender, education level, religion, language, culture, and group membership—is the single most important aspect of developing your speech.

discover information that you can use to build common ground between you and the members of your audience.

It is the person’s selection of words.

You may have a hard time speaking genuinely and sincerely if you use unfamiliar language and this can impair your credibility. The statement is.

Incorrect word choice leads to misunderstanding among the audience. The statement is...

The alternative word for initially is:

It involves sharing of ideas and information between one person to another.

This is simply the collection of principles defining how to put together a sentence.

It is the notion that certain words, word forms, and syntactic structures meet the conventions and standards.

Grammatical Error is the term used in prescriptive grammar to describe an instance of faulty, unconventional, or controversial usage.

Which of the following is grammatically correct?