Exam 13: Delivering Your Presentations

What is the relationship between eye contact and the speaker's credibility?

Gestures, or hand movements, should be carefully planned and scripted

Which type of presentation is most commonly used in communication classes?

______ reinforce messages, elicit emotion, and add new information using our various senses.

Which is a guideline for using photographs as a presentational aid?

Audiences are unfamiliar with multimedia presentational aids and do not expect them.

In an impromptu speech, you will most likely want to focus on two main points in the body of the speech.

At the low end of the technology range are ______ and ______, which are good for quick explanations or for brainstorming sessions.

Tamara has always been extremely nervous speaking in front of people throughout her life. In high school, her friend Kara convinces her to audition for a play, and she is cast in a prominent role. To her surprise, Tamara finds she loves acting and doesn't feel nervous at all in front of an audience. What does this illustrate?

Objects that reinforce your message, create emotion, and/or add new information using a variety of senses are called models.

Darius plans to add a graph to his PowerPoint presentation that illustrates the percentage of Americans who have saved less than $10,000 for retirement. Which type of graph would work best to make his point?

Camilla is presenting the keynote speech for a volunteer organization's awards banquet. She researches the speech, outlines it, creates a keyword outline, rehearses and times it, and presents it with brief notes. What delivery method is Camila using?

Explain communication apprehension (CA) and its two key components.

Which statement is accurate regarding speaking rate?

What are two recommendations for using handouts?

President Franklin D. Roosevelt's fireside chats, presidential talks broadcast on the radio, are an example of a(n) ______.

A 3-dimensional representation can be conveyed only by using (a) ______.

Caden is asked to deliver a prewritten speech exactly as written to workers at five of his company's manufacturing plants. His initial thought is that this will be easy because he won't have to write the speech himself. He reads the speech to the first audience, and he receives a message from his boss saying the top management at the plant was not impressed with his unenthused delivery. What advice would you give Caden to help him improve, knowing what you know about manuscript delivery?