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All plagiarism is intentional.

A tool used to engage as many of the listener’s senses as possible.

As discussed in class, how much of the time is an audience distracted when listening to a message?

Plagiarism is restating or summarizing an author’s ideas in your own words.

Attitude can impede listening.

A connective found in the body of the speech that serves much like a mini-introduction into the next main point.

Preston wants to give his informative speech on three types of dogs: collies, terriers, and poodles. This organizational pattern would probably be the most effective:

“To inform my audience about chronic fatigue syndrome” is an example of a central idea for an informative speech.

As mentioned in one of the content pages for this week,  in theory, images can be particularly influential as compared to text-only communication because of . . . 

Which of the following are suggestions to edit sentences as discussed in your readings?