LINGST 2700 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mind Map, Thesis Statement, Stress Management
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Know the thirteen steps for preparing and delivering your first speech: analyze audience: learn about audience, select topic: brainstorm, avoid overused topics, narrow topic, determine rhetorical purpose: primary goal of presentation, create thesis statement: sums up main message of topic, develop main points: major ideas that you want to emphasize, generate supporting materials: information that bolsters main point, organize and outline body of speech, outline introduction and conclusion. Understand the four fallacies that misuse logic: hasty generalization, post hoc fallacy: speaker wrongly identifies the cause of one event as the event that immediately preceded it, personal attacks, bandwagoning. Be familiar with the eight organizational patterns and the reasons for using each: spatial pattern: geography, temporal pattern: chronological order, casual pattern: cause and effect relationship, comparison pattern, problem cause solution, criteria application: proposes standards for making judgment about a topic and then applies those standards to the topic, narrative pattern, categorical pattern:
