Exam 13: Delivering Your Presentations

Name two paralinguistic skills to cultivate for effective speech delivery. How are these two skills related? How do they work together in a speaker's presentation?

Because of advances in ______, audiences expect professional presentations. Your presentational aids should be seamless and completely integrated.

Patrick is presenting a classroom speech on Motown Records and the Motown sound. Which presentational aid would be most important for this speech?

Nathan writes his classroom speech in plenty of time, but he doesn't practice it until the night before the speech is due. He works until after midnight to put the finishing touches it on his keyword outline, and then he practices the speech six times. What is likely to be the result of Nathan's speech preparation technique?

Which is a desirable function of a pause while delivering a speech?

How can reframing help a speaker manage the physical symptoms of communication apprehension?

Rocco is giving a speech on the cost of healthcare in the United States. Describe how he could use a line graph, a bar graph, or a pie graph (choose one) in this presentation.

Because we live in a digital age and our presentations may be available for viewing for years to come, we have to be careful of our ______ so we do not date ourselves too badly.

Which is a good suggestion for reducing the symptoms of CA?

Inez wants to add a graph to her Prezi presentation showing the increase in student loan debt over the past 10 years. Which type of graph would best illustrate her point?

When is the best time to move around during a presentation?

Which type of graph is best at representing quantities?

Manuscript presentations are read from a script and are usually informal in nature.

Explain a situation in which a document camera could serve as a good backup.

At its heart, communication apprehension is really all about relationships.

Overhead transparency projectors and document cameras do not require a computer.

Explain why delivery skills have become increasingly important in the Communication Age.

Communication apprehension (CA) is a type of ______.

A speech where the speaker has carefully prepared notes and an outline and has practiced a great deal is a(n) ______.

When a speaker is going to be giving the same speech multiple times, often he or she will give a memorized presentation.