What is active listening?

Here are answers to your questions based on common knowledge and definitions:

**What is active listening?**
Active listening is a communication technique that involves fully focusing, understanding, responding, and remembering what the speaker is saying. It requires the listener to engage with the speaker, showing empathy and understanding.

**What is a claim?**
A claim is a statement or assertion that something is true or factual, often requiring support or evidence.

**What is a counterclaim?**
A counterclaim is an opposing argument or viewpoint that challenges the original claim.

**What do we call the facts, documentation, or testimony used to strengthen a claim?**
These are referred to as evidence or supporting evidence.

**What do verbal clues include?**
Verbal clues include tone of voice, word choice, and speech patterns that indicate a speaker's emotions or attitudes.

**What do non-verbal cues include?**
Non-verbal cues include body language, facial expressions, gestures, eye contact, and posture, which can convey feelings and reactions without spoken words.

**Discussions are about __ideas__ instead of __opinions__. Discussion participants will hopefully reach a __consensus__.**

**Collegial discussions are usually __constructive__ and __collaborative__.**

**Questions in a collegial discussion should relate to a __shared topic or objective__.**

**What is empathy?**
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person, recognizing their emotions and perspective.

**What do open-ended questions require?**
Open-ended questions require detailed responses and cannot be answered with a simple "yes" or "no."

**What is an example of an open-ended question?**
An example of an open-ended question is, "What are your thoughts on the impact of climate change?"

**What does it mean to justify a claim?**
To justify a claim means to provide valid reasons, evidence, or arguments that support the claim, demonstrating its validity.

**What are diverse perspectives?**
Diverse perspectives refer to different viewpoints, opinions, or interpretations that arise from individuals’ unique backgrounds, experiences, and beliefs.

**Disagreement gives us a chance to __clarify__ ideas where we may have been unclear.**

**What does it mean to verify your viewpoints?**
To verify your viewpoints means to critically assess the accuracy and credibility of your beliefs and opinions, ensuring they are supported by evidence.

**Before giving a speech, you should have a __clear understanding of your topic__ and know your __audience__.**

**What are rhetorical strategies?**
Rhetorical strategies are techniques or tools used by speakers and writers to persuade or inform their audience, such as ethos, pathos, and logos.

**What does fallacious mean?**
Fallacious refers to reasoning or arguments that are logically unsound or misleading.

**What are the three models of persuasion?**
The three models of persuasion are the Aristotelian appeals—ethos (appeal to ethics/credibility), pathos (appeal to emotion), and logos (appeal to logic/reason).

**Which model of persuasion appeals to logic? Which one appeals to ethics? Which one appeals to emotion?**
- Logos appeals to logic.
- Ethos appeals to ethics.
- Pathos appeals to emotion.

**A difference of opinions or diverse perspectives are unavoidable because people have different __backgrounds__, __experiences__, and __beliefs__ about issues.**

**Why is disagreement essential for good conversation?**
Disagreement is essential for good conversation because it promotes critical thinking, encourages exploration of different viewpoints, and can lead to deeper understanding and improved ideas.

**In a collegial discussion, a variety of __opinions__, __ideas__, and __perspectives__ are bound to be presented.**

**By exposing ourselves to divergent perspectives, we start to make new __connections__.**

**Video #1: “What is Plagiarism and Why is it Bad?” (5 mins.)**
**What is a bibliography?**
A bibliography is a list of sources (books, articles, etc.) cited in a work, providing the information necessary to locate those sources.

**What is plagiarism?**
Plagiarism is the act of using someone else's work, ideas, or intellectual property without proper attribution, presenting it as one's own.

**By NOT __citing sources and giving credit__, you are implying that you came up with everything on your own.**

**Schools expect you to maintain your __academic integrity__ and your __honesty__.**

**Schools have their own Academic Integrity policies, but it is not uncommon for a school to __discipline__ students who plagiarize.**

**Teachers want to know what you __think__, not just __restate others' ideas__.**

**Always mention (cite your source) when you take an __idea or quote__ from somewhere.**

**Video #2: “Academic Honesty and Types of Plagiarism” (2 mins.)**
**Buying a paper, having someone write a paper for you, or copying and pasting entire passages without crediting the source are all examples of __plagiarism__.**

**What is word switch plagiarism?**
Word switch plagiarism involves altering the wording of a source but maintaining the original idea, without proper citation.

**What is patchwork or style plagiarism?**
Patchwork plagiarism combines sentences or ideas from multiple sources while neglecting to credit the original authors, resulting in a compilation that is not original.

**What is idea plagiarism?**
Idea plagiarism occurs when someone takes another person's unique idea or concept and presents it as their own without proper attribution.

**What qualifies as common knowledge?**
Common knowledge includes information that is widely known and accepted within a particular field or by the general public and does not require citation.

**What is an example of common knowledge?**
An example of common knowledge is stating that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

**What is self plagiarism?**
Self-plagiarism is the practice of reusing significant, identical, or nearly identical portions of one's own previous work without acknowledging that it has been used before.