Oral Communication Skills Choices And Consequences 3rd Edition Kathryn Sue Young, Howard Paul Travis - Solutions

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• Explain the organizational elements of an initial team meeting
6. Write a brief follow-up note thanking an interviewer for their time.
5. Observe intellectual prop- erty laws and document your sources.
5. Participate in a behavioral interview exercise. Give students 5 questions in advance. Students are asked to prepare a 1–1½ minute story response for each question. During the exercise, each student stands in front of the class while one of the questions is asked. Critique the exercise when
4. Draw conclusions and make recommendations that your reader will find actionable.
4. Conduct an interview with a classmate as though you are a human resources person. Critique each other when both interviews are completed.
3. Think critically about the in- formation and ideas you find.
3. List the personal skills you plan to write on your résumé. Why do these skills sell you to an employer?
2. Gather information and ideas that will be useful and persuasive to your readers.
2. Describe your “brand.” Does it match your career objective?
1. Explain the six essential qualities of high-quality workplace research.
1. Identify the career you seek after finishing school. Jot down the skills and activities you need to possess to be a good candidate for the career.
2. Write a memo to your instructor in which you describe a communication you wrote that was useful and persuasive because you had defined its goals along the lines described in this chapter. Explain the features of your communica- tion that were effective because of your thinking about the
• Understand the importance of communicating after the interview
1. Write a memo to your instructor describing a com- munication that you or others received that was either unhelpful or unpersuasive. Identify the ways that the writer could have used the advice in this chapter to improve the communication's effectiveness.
• Describe the elements of a stress interview
• Identify unique aspects of Skype interviews
10. What kinds of problems are likely to arise?
• Identify unique aspects of phone interviewing
9. If your recommendation is followed, what will be the effect on other departments?
• Answer questions using behavioral interviewing techniques
8. Have you overlooked anything important?
• Explain the concept of behavioral interviewing
• Explain the importance of personal artifacts in the interview
• Explain how to make a good first impression
7. Do your data really support your conclusions?
• Describe how to spend time preparing for an interview
6. Did you use a reasonable method to obtain your results?
5. Identify your communica- tion's stakeholders: a first step in writing ethically in the workplace.
• Identify the elements of an effective résumé
4. Identify any constraints on the way you write.
5. Describe a reasonable goal for a persuasive argument in a speech.Does the impact of a persuasive argument have more influence on an audience when it is in a commercial ad form and repeated hundreds of times rather than a single performance such as a speech?
4. Describe a political ad that is a claim of policy.
3. Identify factors that may influence your reader's responses to your commu- nication.
3. What type of persuasive reasoning captures your attention: ethos, logos, pathos? Why? Which type are you the most comfortable using in a speech? Why?
2. Analyze a faculty lecture for fallacies in reasoning. Cite the fallacies you heard.
1. Analyze your classmates for similarities and differences in age, gender, academic major, cultural background, etc. What topics might appeal to this audience during a persuasive speech? Why?
2. Determine what your com- munication must do in order to be persuasive to your reader.
• List emotions that can be targeted
1. Determine what your com- munication must do in order to be useful to your reader.
• List and recognize the fallacies of reasoning
• List the types of reasoned arguments and write examples of each
• Identify other organizational patterns for persuasion
3. Complete the Project assignment in MindTap on writ- ing a rsum and a letter of application.
• Explain the five steps of Monroe’s Motivated Sequence
2. Using the web, newspapers, or journal articles, locate four or more openings that appeal to you. Create a unified list of the qualifications they specify. Then identify your skills and experiences that match each item on the employers' list.
• List the types of claims and write examples for each
1. Find a sample rsum at your college's Career Services Center or in a book about rsum writing. Evaluate it from the point of view of its intended reader. How could it be improved?
• Explain credibility and logical and emotional appeals
6. Conduct your job search ethically.
• Explain how audience analysis helps the persuasive presentation
5. Describe changes you might need to make in your rsum and application letter when applying for a position in a cul- ture different from your own.
• Write purpose statements for three types of persuasive speeches
4. Explain how detailed knowl- edge of your reader helps you create a rsum and job application letter.
• Develop a reasonable goal
3. Write an effective job application letter.
7. Discuss an incident where you wasted your time going somewhere with another person. What did you learn about yourself and how did you alter your behavior?
2. Plan an effective profes- sional portfolio.
6. Discuss which mass persuasive appeals attract your attention. Do they also get you to send money or actuate behavior? Why?
1. Write an effective rsum.
5. Analyze how many messages you receive via technical channels to be persuasive: indirect or direct.
6. Tell how to gain lasting value from your course and this book.
5. Describe this book's approach to ethics.
4. Describe an incident where you did not give in to peer pressure.What was the result of your decision?
4. Use six reader-centered strategies when writing a brief communication.
3. Discuss a situation in which you feel you had a perceived choice not to follow instructions but failed to act individualistically.
3. Summarize in one sen- tence the reader-centered approach to writing.
2. Name a commercial advertisement for each of the three persuasive goals: convince, reinforce and actuate. Analyze each choice.
2. Name and explain the two qualities that writing at work must have to be effective.
1. Describe a situation where you used coercion to achieve a specific goal.
• List the three types of persuasive speeches
• Identify the 4 contexts of persuasion
• Explain the difference between informing and persuading
• Explain the idea of perceived choice
• Define persuasion
9. How much preparation time do you require to feel comfortable in front of an audience? Remember, the same experience is present when you Skype or web conference. Technology is not any more forgiving of delivery errors than the “live” audience experience.
8. Listen to one of your teachers during a lecture. How much time do you think they took to prepare for the lecture? Why do you feel that way?
7. Do you expect a speaker to make eye contact with you during a presentation?How often should this occur to keep you interested in them as an audience member?
6. Which articulation, pronunciation, or grammar errors do you hear in others that distract you from what they are trying to say? Do you possess any of these errors yourself that you can correct?
5. What elements of a speech critique do you find to be the most helpful?Why?
4. Which vocalized pauses are the most annoying to hear a speaker use?Why?
1. Describe the major ways writing at work differs from writing at school.
3. List the visual aids you use when speaking to an audience. Why are you comfortable using those aids?
2. Are certain visual aids more appealing to you than others when you listen to/observe a speaker?
1. Describe a speaker whose delivery style is excellent. Explain.
• Understand how to critique a classmate
• Understand communication apprehension
• Explain the importance of practice
• Recognize effective uses of visual aids
• Explain the importance of visual aids
• Understand articulation, pronunciation, and grammar
• List the four styles of delivery
9. Are local connections to a speech topic more intriguing to an audience?For example, if the topic relates to crime, did the speaker use local crime statistics as part of their supporting evidence? Does a local connection to the topic help you pay attention to the speaker?
8. How do interviews boost topic credibility? When were the interviews mentioned in a speech done?
7. What speech organizational patterns do you associate with teachers in various disciplines? Explain.
6. Attend a guest lecture on campus and write down the connection step used by the speaker to establish credibility on the topic. Do you feel the speaker is credible?
5. Jot down the factual statements used during a class lecture. Why do you think the statements you have written down are facts?
4. What is the most memorable attention-getting opener you have heard for a speech? Analyze why it worked for you.
3. Who is the most credible speaker you have ever heard? Explain.
2. How do you know that Internet sites are valid and reliable to use for a speech? Discuss.

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