If you are demonstrating how to shoot a free throw, sharing the number of years you have been playing basketball and the number of awards you have won in the sport can build your credibility with the audience.

In this form of communication, the receiver is physically removed from the messenger, and there is little or no communication between the speaker and the audience.

A value is the general evaluation of people, ideas, objects, or events.

Any source that requires credit in written form should be acknowledged in oral form.

What is the difference between having a captive audience and a voluntary audience, and how should that affect your speech?

The first step in the speechmaking process is ____________________; the last step is __________________________.

The demographic characteristics of an audience include

The five canons of rhetoric are invention, adaptation, arrangement, timing, and delivery.

There is only one organizational pattern that is appropriate for an informative speech.

The goal of informative speaking is to increase the audience’s knowledge and deepen their understanding of the subject/phenomenon.