List the five purposes of introduction and provide a method for accomplishing each of them

What will be an ideal response?

1. Get the audience's attention: use an illustration, a startling fact or statistic, a quotation, humor, a question, etc.
2. Give the audience a reason to listen: tell your listeners how the topic directly relates to them.
3. Introduce the subject: present your central idea to your audience.
4. Establish your credibility: be confident, well prepared, and share personal experience if any.
5. Preview your main ideas: brief your audience about the main ideas of your speech.

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a. advocate b. teacher c. motivator d. pundit e. convincer

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Identify the Nielson acronym PPL:

A. possible potential listener B. pretty popular listenership C. portable people meter D. all of these E. none of these

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