COM 114 Test Out-Purdue University Actual Questions with Verified Answers Graded A+
Clincher ✔✔The final remark that you will make to your audience
Introduction ✔✔Capture the attention of your audience, establish your credibility, relate the material to your audience, announce the topic of the speech, preview the main points of the speech; makes up 10% of the entire speech
Body ✔✔Supporting evidence and research; makes up 85% of the entire speech
Conclusion ✔✔Restate the thesis, restate the main points, end with a clincher; makes up 5% of the entire speech
Asked Question I Don't Know the Answer to ✔✔Be honest-you may ask if someone in the audience knows the answer or you can get back to them once you've located the information (make sure you contact them or else this could effect your credibility)
How Should I Answer the Questions Asked ✔✔Keep the answers concise and direct, listen to the entire question, repeat each question
Transitions ✔✔Words, phrases, or sentences that show the relationship between ideas in your presentation and allow listeners to follow you easily
Main points ✔✔Important topics to the purpose of the speech (usually two to three)
Subpoints ✔✔Build up, support, and explain the main points of the speech
Sub-subpoints ✔✔Build up, support, and explain the subpoints within the speech
Equal Support ✔✔The ideas that support your main points should be held at equal value
Coordination ✔✔The ideas at the same level of importance should use the same series of symbols and have the same indentation
Enhance Credibility ✔✔Experiences, qualifications, or educational background
Cannot Enhance Credibility ✔✔Offending your audience while making your credibility statement 1 / 2
Ethos ✔✔Appeal that is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader; the extent to which the audience trusts you; for example: I am a doctor and therefore you should trust me when I say this is the best treatment for you
Logos ✔✔Appeal that is a way of persuading an audience by reason; inductive and deductive reasoning; for example: It's nonsense to try drugs if you know they are damaging to your health
Pathos ✔✔Appeal that is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response; for example: You should consider another route home, I heard many gangs come out at night on that street
Informatory Presentation ✔✔Seeks to create awareness of the part of an audience regarding a specific issue
Explanatory Presentation ✔✔Seeks to deepen the audience's understanding; goes beyond making the audience aware of a particular phenomenon and actually create understanding
Why are Visual Aids Important ✔✔Increases clarity and retention, increases effectiveness in both the speaker and the presentation
Why are Visual Aids Used by a Speaker ✔✔The audience's ability to process the information and understand the presented material is greatly enhanced
Pie Chart ✔✔Used when comparing parts of a whole or percentages of the total
Bar Chart ✔✔Used when making comparisons among different types of items to allow for easy visual ranking across items in a category
Line Chart ✔✔Used for comparing charges over time in a set of data to examine trends
Straw Person ✔✔Fallacy when someone ignores or misrepresents a person's actual position and substitutes a weaker, distorted or misrepresented version of that position, thereby making it easier to refute the opponent's position; for example: A biology teachers says all things evolve, a student says humans could not have come from bugs
Red Herring ✔✔Fallacy where an irrelevant topic is inserted into the discussion to divert attention away from the real issue; for example: Mom gets phone bill and you've gone over your limit so you tell her about your math test
Slippery Slope ✔✔Fallacy that asserts that some action will inevitably lead to a chain of events that will end in a certain result; for example: If you allow a student to redo a test, they will want to redo every assignment
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