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Fortunately, stage fright only affects inexperienced speakers.

Speakers who think positively about themselves and the speech experience are more likely to overcome their stage fright than are speakers who think negatively.

It is usually a bad idea to make eye contact with individual members of your audience.

For most beginning speakers, the biggest part of stage fright is fear of the unknown. It has been estimated that being fully prepared for a speech can reduce stage fright by up to 75 percent.

Your textbook recommends__________ as the most effective method of note taking for listening to a speech.

When you listen to the campaign speech of a political candidate for the purpose of accepting or rejecting the speaker’s message, you are engaged in empathic listening.

Speechmaking becomes more complex as cultural diversity increases.

As a general rule, the larger your audience, the more formal your speech presentation should be.

Both public speaking and conversation involve adapting to listener feedback.

Interference is anything that impedes the communication of a message.