PURCOM_FINALS

• Build connection in terms of friendship, affiliation, partnership and community
• Considerations for a good presentation are the audience, speaker and situation
• Management of communication involves careful planning, execution and sustainability
• Most common and readily available presentation is oral presentation
• Good Old Boy is an experienced speaker that the audience are familiar with. good info but poorly delivered
• The Entertainer makes use of jokes/anecdotes in delivering message. entertain too much and forget the essence of speech
• The Academic has an eye of precision. follows an organized outline, delivered as planned but audience may find it irrelevant and boring
• The Reader is the one who reads his script. thorough but very technical and boring
• The Snail includes all minor details. too much details, forget important points of speech
• The Gadgeteer uses gimmick and techniques in presentation.
• Audio-Visual Presentations include video, ppt and computer graphics
• Web-Based Presentations e.g. are prezi, google slides, blogs and vlogs
• Multimodal Text combi of two modes of communication like visual, oral, audio, gestural and spatial pattern
• Inform increases an audience's knowledge about a subject or issue
• Persuade influence an audience's choices by changing their responses toward an idea
• Argue asserts positions on issues by attacking perspectives
• Relate the presenter to the topic
• Relate the topic to the audience
• Create information hunger
• Help audience apply info
• Help audience understand the info
• Help audience remember the info
• Apply info is to define, describe, explain and demonstrate
• Types of persuasive presentations are to inspire, convince, and action
• You should know the critical, defensive and compliance responses
• Persuasive strategies are consistency, changes, benefits and fulfillment
• ARGap motivational tendency to approach arguments
• ARGav motivational tendency to avoid arguments
• Low argumentative have low motivation to argue and high motivation to avoid aguments
• High argumentative have high motivation to approach arguments and low to avoid
• Conflicted-feelings moderate argumentative have high motivation to approach arguments but also have high motivation to avois
• Apathetic moderate argumentative have low motivation to approach arguments and low to avoid arguments
• Neutral moderate argumentative will argue only when the see some good coming out of it and have a good chance of winning
• Stephen Toulmins structure of Argumentations is to claim, ground, warrant, backing, qualifier and rebuttal
• Process of Argumentation includes inductive/deductive reasoning, use of hard/soft evidence
• Fallacy an error in reasoning that weakins an argument
• Ad hominem means "to the man" is an argument that attacks the person or character of the person making the argument.
• Appeal to authority called "Argumentum ad Verecundiam" is when someone uses the authority of someone else to persuade you to accept their argument.
• Appeal to popular passions called "Argumentum ad Populum" shares the same views as the audience
• Circular Reasoning uses two unproven propositions to prove each other