"Improving Our Sleep Habits" Is a Poorly Phrased Specific Purpose

question 17

Multiple Choice

"Improving our sleep habits" is a poorly phrased specific purpose for a speech because it is

• A) too technical for a classroom speech.
• B) written as a sentence rather than a declarative phrase.
• C) expressed in figurative language.
• D) written as a fragment rather than a full infinitive phrase.
• E) written as a statement rather than a question.

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Definitions:

Mental Processes

Internal cognitive functions that include thinking, perceiving, decision-making, and remembering, which underlie behavior.

Behavior

The actions or reactions of an organism, often in response to external stimuli, observable through physical or verbal acts.

Science

A systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.

Cognitive Neuroscientists

Scientists who study the biological processes and aspects that underlie cognition, with a particular focus on the neural connections in the brain which are involved in mental processes.