COM 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Thesis Statement, Sexual Orientation
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You can engage your audience in ethical communication. Make yourself more comfortable knowing they would enjoy your speech. You also engage in competent communication in which you predict their reactions. The general makeup of your audience (who are they?: age, gender, sexual orientation, culture, background, religion. Size: how big is your audience. Is it too big to connect with them on a personal level: become comfortable and recognize any obstacles in your surroundings. Attitudes: how the audience feels about your topic. Belief statements the audience holds to be true. Amount of importance or worth people put on beliefs. Informal: learn from past speeches and classroom discussions. Being able to find the appropriate sources. Using and citing sources ethically and legally. Create research questions: should stem directly from your thesis statement, base questions in a way that answers will be about the information, a(cid:272)t like the audie(cid:374)(cid:272)e does(cid:374)"t already k(cid:374)ow a(cid:374)ythi(cid:374)g a(cid:271)out your topi(cid:272).
