1. List three environmental cues and indicate how they influence your expectations for communication? 2. Does the communicator have a responsibility to the audience? Does the audience have a...

1.    List three environmental cues and indicate how they influence your expectations for communication?
2.    Does the communicator have a responsibility to the audience? Does the audience have a responsibility to the speaker? Provide a justification for your view.
3.    Choose an article or opinion piece from a major newspaper or news Web site. Analyse the piece according to the five-part structure described in the readings. Does the headline serve as a good attention statement? Does the piece conclude with a sense of closure? How are the main points presented and supported?
4.     Is there ever a justifiable use for doublespeak? Why or why not? Explain your response and give some examples.
5.    Find an article or listen to a presentation that uses signposts. Identify the signposts and explain how they help the audience follow the article or presentation. IDENTIFY the article (via a link).
6.    What does the field of psychology offer concerning the self-fulfilling prophecy?
7.     Make a list of benefits and drawbacks to each of the listening styles discussed in the reading from “Contemporary Public Speaking”.
8.    How does the intended audience influence the choice of words and use of language in a document? Think of a specific topic and two specific kinds of audiences. Then write a short example of how this topic might be presented to each of the two audiences.
9.    Create a sales letter for an audience that comes from a culture other than your own. Identify the culture and articulate how your message is tailored to your perception of your intended audience.
10.     How can a speaker prepare a speech for a diverse audience? Explain and give some specific examples.
11.     Is it important to consider the rhetorical situation? Provide a justification for your view.
12.     Does organising a presentation involve ethics? Explain your response.
13.    By visiting the library or doing an Internet search, find a speech given by someone you admire. The speech may be published in a book or newspaper, recorded in an audio file, or recorded on video (but must have been made in English and not be a translation). It may be a political speech, a business speech, or even a commercial sales pitch. Analyse the speech using the five structural elements as this speaker has used them and include a link to the speech in your answer.
14.     How does the process of perception limit our view, or expand it? Can we choose how to perceive things?