Purposive Communication

• Academic Integrity - is the pursuit of intellectual engagement in an open, truthful, and responsible behavior.
• Cheating - the use of unauthorized notes, study aids, or information during examinations.
• Plagiarism - passing of a requirement with ideas in part or whole not entirely one's work without citing the correct source.
• Fabrication - inventing or falsifying an information, data, or citation.
• Obtaining an unfair advantage - ways to place himself in a more advantageous position in a prejudicial way.
• supporting academic dishonesty - providing assistance to others with the intention of violating any forms of academic dishonestly.
• misrepresentation of records - act of unlawful modification of school records such as forging of signatures.
• illegal access to academic or administrative records - unauthorized viewing of school records and disseminating information gained via illegal access
• Essay - a composition that discusses a topic from a personal viewpoint
• purpose of an essay - to explain or prove a point
• pre-writing stage is the stage where developing a concept, gathering materials, writing the thesis, and developing a plan are conducted
• developing a concept is the stage when you formulate your topic, identify your audience, and establish your purpose
• gathering materials is researching on library, browsing magazines, journals, books, and newspaper articles that talk about your chosen topic
• develop a thesis is the paper's main point. it is important that this is complete and an opinion-based sentence
• developing a plan could be done by using idea mapping, story boarding, or formal outline
• idea mapping refers to the graphical or textual technique for visualizing connections between several ideas or pieces of information linked by curves and lines thus creating a web of relationships
• story boarding is a technique where every idea is placed in an index card. this allows the writer to experiment with changes in the sequence of ideas
• outline is a systematic and logical representation of how the paper will look like.
• writing stage refers to the writing of the first draft
• introduction foregrounds your topic and gives a hint on the important points within the essay
• body support the thesis
• conclusion serves as a reminder of the main idea of the essay
• post-writing stage comes with editing your paper by rearranging and adding paragraphs, omitting or adding information and ensuring the flow and continuity of ideas
• public speaking is passing of information by a speaker in an audience
• public speaking is a process of conveying ideas of sharing opinions and information and of inducing understanding to a crowd
• expository or informative speech is a speech that answers basic questions such as what, how, and why through non-controversial and non-debatable topics.
• expository or informative speech helps the audience to understand and remember the information the speaker is presenting
• persuasive speech aims to convince an audience to do specific actions
• persuasive speech sways the audience to change their mind on certain issues and influence doing things they were unwillingly to do
• entertainment speech aims to amuse the audience by using humor, anecdotes, jokes, and stories relevant to the topic. it simply gives the audience an opportunity to enjoy themselves
• manuscript reading - the material is written out word for word; the speaker reads every word from the prepared text
• memorized speech - it is committed to memory and delivered from memory
• memorized speech - the least effective and most difficult speech based on delivery.
• impromptu speech - delivered without any preparation at all.
• impromptu speech - the speaker is asked to talk on the spur of the moment; it has no advance planning or practice
• extemporaneous speech - is a speech with minimal preparation
• extemporaneous speech - use brief notes or outline as they build up the language during delivery
• welcome speech - expresses pleasure and warm, cordial accommodation of the audience
• thanksgiving speech - addressed to specific individuals for important reasons as thanking them
• introduction speech - tells about the guest speaker's qualifications, skills, and outstanding achievements in relation to the nature of the occasion