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Regardless of whether your aim is to encourage passive agreement or immediate action, you must deal with three basic issues whenever you discuss a question of policy. They are:

According to your textbook, the following passage from a speech introduction is an example of a(n) __________: Today I would like to share what I have learned about attention deficit disorder by first discussing its effects on people and then looking at the treatments that can be used to help people who suffer from this condition.

The _______________ will usually dictate how long a speech should be.

“Improving personal relationships” is a poorly phrased specific purpose for a speech because it is:

According to your textbook, which of the following should be included in a speaking outline?

According to the text, the credibility of a speaker produced by everything the speaker says or does during the speech itself is called __________ credibility.

What are two types of audience analysis discussed in your textbook?

Encyclopedias, dictionaries, yearbooks, atlases, gazetteers, and quotation books are all examples of:

According to your text, the following statement is an example of what type of fallacy? How can we be so concerned about shielding children in the U.S. from Internet pornography when millions of children around the world continue to be sold into slavery every year?

According to the text, as a persuasive speaker, your two major concerns with respect to reasoning are: