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audience
purpose
task
A) Drag a choice to each box to match each term with an example. (2 points)
A) Which question would best help somebody describe the substance of a presentation? (1 point)
What types of literary devices are used in the presentation?
How serious is the information included in the presentation?
How are the main ideas put together in the presentation?
What supporting evidence is included in the presentation?
convince doctors  to try a new treatment for arthritis on their patients
 develop a presentation about the key benefits of a new arthritis treatment
 medical doctors who may be interested in a new treatment for arthritis
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Thomas is preparing a presentation about meal kits. He wants to order his points so that listeners willbe able to follow his line of reasoning.
Drag each point to put them in the correct order. The first point should be at the top of the list, and thefinal point should be at the bottom.
(2 points)
Meal kits are touted as an easy alternative to  visiting the grocery store and preparing a meal from scratch.
 There are plenty of quick and easy meals that can be prepared in this amount of time at a much cheaper cost.
 They often take up to 30 minutes to prepare, and that is not including the cleanup.
 However, meal kits are not nearly as convenient as some people assume.
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Which is an example of pacing used to convey a message and impact an audience?
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A speaker discussing the effects of climate change on polar bears slows his speech when presenting direstatistics.
A speaker presenting on the ten steps to improve a person’s organizational skills counts with fingers toaccentuate each step.
A speaker says the same phrase throughout a speech about the need for equality in access andaffordability in healthcare.
A speaker raises her voice when defining key terms during a technical presentation about string theory.
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"President Bidenat Summit of theAmericas"
by President Joe Biden
The bottom line is this: The WesternHemisphere is home for all of us. Back in 2013,when I was Vice President to Barack Obama,he asked me to lead our engagement with theregion. And I said we should be talking aboutthe hemisphere and I made a speech backthen, saying the hemisphere — we should lookat it as a “middle-class, secure, democratic”hemisphere — from Chile — “from Canada toChile and everywhere in between.”
Over the past decade, our region has changed.The challenges we faced have changed. Andso, our policies and our solutions have tochange as well.
But I want to be very clear: My fundamentalview and my approach to the hemisphere hasnot changed. I still believe what I said then, andI hope that you do too. There is no reason whythe Western Hemisphere can’t be the mostforward-looking, most democratic, mostprosperous, most peaceful, secure region in theworld. We have unlimited potential. We haveenormous resources and a democratic spiritthat stands for freedom and opportunity foreverybody.
And no matter what else is happening in the
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Use the passage to answer the question.
Which quotation is evidence of PresidentBiden’s shift in rhetorical style to convey amore informal tone?
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“So, thank you again for being part ofthis summit. We have a busy few daysand incredible opportunities ahead ofus. So, let’s get to work.”
“The challenges we faced havechanged. And so, our policies and oursolutions have to change as well.”
“And I’m now supposed to hush upand sit down, and we’re going to havea conversation. Is that right?”
“The bottom line is this: The WesternHemisphere is home for all of us.”

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Here are the answers:

1) Match each term with an example
- Audience: medical doctors who may be interested in a new treatment for arthritis
- Purpose: convince doctors to try a new treatment for arthritis on their patients
- Task: develop a presentation about the key benefits of a new arthritis treatment

2) Which question best helps describe the substance of a presentation?
- How are the main ideas put together in the presentation?

3) Order Thomas’s points (first at top → last at bottom)
1. Meal kits are touted as an easy alternative to visiting the grocery store and preparing a meal from scratch.
2. However, meal kits are not nearly as convenient as some people assume.
3. They often take up to 30 minutes to prepare, and that is not including the cleanup.
4. There are plenty of quick and easy meals that can be prepared in this amount of time at a much cheaper cost.

4) Example of pacing used to convey a message
- A speaker discussing the effects of climate change on polar bears slows his speech when presenting dire statistics.

5) Biden passage — quotation showing a more informal tone
- “And I’m now supposed to hush up and sit down, and we’re going to have a conversation. Is that right?”