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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:

According to your text, which of the following is a factor in situational audience analysis?

According to your text, emotional appeal is:

What kind of reasoning is used in the following statement? In recent months, newspapers have carried reports of vicious dogs attacking people in Los Angeles, St. Louis, Boston, and Orlando. These reports show that dog attacks are an increasingly serious problem nationwide.

“To persuade my audience that they should practice abstinence as a way to protect themselves from STDs” is a specific purpose statement for a persuasive speech on a question of:

“Now that we have seen the causes of unrest in central Africa, we shall turn to their effects…” is an example of a(n):