Which of the following skills do employers consider to be the most important, above all others, when hiring college graduates?

Public speaking skills can help you enter the public conversation about issues that matter to you, making you a(n) __________.

For the ancient Greeks, __________ was a necessary tool in settling arguments, determining public policy, and establishing laws.

The ancient Greeks used the term __________ oratory to describe a speech that was delivered on a special occasion, such as a wedding.

__________, a philosophical scholar, divided the process of preparing for a speech into five parts, called the canons of rhetoric.

The canon of rhetoric that deals with selecting information and evidence to construct your arguments is __________.

In ____________, a speaker, with little interruption, delivers a message with a specific purpose to an audience of people who are present during the delivery.

The process of transforming thoughts into messages for the purpose of delivering them to an audience is called ___________.

_____________ reminds us that successful communication can never be divorced from the concerns and expectations of others.

When an audience interprets and assigns meaning to a speaker’s message, that process is referred to as ____________.

Interference or barriers to the communication process are known as __________.

The verbal or nonverbal listener response to a message is called _______.

___________ is the mutual understanding of a message between a speaker and audience.

What is a rhetorical situation?

Which of the following is not a characteristic of cultural intelligence?