Describe three ways to best adapt your language style to diverse listeners

What will be an ideal response?

Answer: Answers should include using understandable language, including incorporating Standard American English for your audience’s needs; using respectful language (avoids language that could be offensive to people of particular ethnic, racial, and religious backgrounds or sexual orientations; women; or people with disabilities. The speaker’s language should not defame any group or be considered offensive or risqué); and using unbiased language (such as using the pronouns his or her or referring to a fireman as a firefighter).

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Among the types of listening we can do, which of the following is

NOT included? a. sympathetic listening b. empathic listening c. appreciative listening d. analytical listening e. discriminative listening

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According to the text, it is NOT the _______ of communication you engage in, but the _______ that matters

a. style; quantity b. quality; quantity c. quality; style d. quantity; quality

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