Answer the following questions fully, in proper paragraphs and sentences.
PART ONE
1. Define the term communication and explain the six elements that make up all communication. Do not merely list or bullet point.
2. Choose any TWO (2) of the following:
A. Define the term audience profile. What are the basic categories used in a profile and how does this information help a writer compose and deliver a speech presentation?
B. Explain any THREE (3) of "Jarvis' Rules" and discuss how each applied to your own work this semester.
C. Define the difference between an instructional and informational demonstration. Explain all the steps necessary to create a set of set of demonstrable instructions.
PART TWO
Consider the text of the famous speech written and delivered by President Abraham Lincoln on the battlefield at Gettysburg, the turning point of the Civil War. (printed on the reverse side of the exam.) In a thoughtful essay of several paragraphs, analyze the following areas:
What type of speech is it, and how do you know?
Who is its intended audience, and how does the wording of the text let you know?
What is the intended purpose of the speech?
What devices are used to get the audience's attention? How effective are they? Why/why not?
How is the speech organized to keep its audience listening? Effective? Why/why not?
What, to you, makes this speech memorable?
Read the speech over in your head, slowly. How effectively could you deliver this speech? What about its text would make you able/unable to do so?
The Gettysburg Address
The speech delivered hr Abraham Lincoln on Nov. 19. 1863, at the dedication of the national cemetery on the (ivil Mir battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa.
The battle of Gettysburg (Jul 1-3. 1863) is described as the turning point in the American Civil War. as Union farces defeated Confederate farces in a battle which resulted in the greatest number of casualties on either side during the War, which would not end until the Confederacy officially surrendered on May 9, 1865.
The battlefield and cemetery which Lincoln dedicated with the following words are among the most important historic sites in the United States, and this speech among the most famous pieces ever written.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow--this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.