How Can a Speaker Minimize or Avoid Information Overload

question 41

Multiple Choice

How can a speaker minimize or avoid information overload?

• A) use an oral style
• B) don't talk down to your audience
• C) target purpose to audience's knowledge level
• D) use a written style
• E) always use technical jargon

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Definitions:

Concurrent Engineering

A product development approach where different stages of product design and manufacturing are done simultaneously to reduce development time and improve efficiency.

Social Environment

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Demographics

Statistical data relating to the population and particular groups within it, often used in marketing, policy making, and social research to understand and predict trends.

Managing Diversity

The practice of acknowledging, understanding, accepting, and valuing differences among people with respect to age, class, ethnicity, gender, physical and mental ability, race, sexual orientation, spiritual practice, and public assistance status.