COM 105 EXAM 3 QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2025-2026
Managing mutual responding - Answers The official COM 105 definition of communication
-Search: informing yourself about the topic (research)
-Justice: concerns fact vs. opinion
-Transparency: concerns motives
- Respect for dissent: able to hear people disagree w/you - Answers Wallace's Four Habits of an
ethically responsible communicator
- Content: the completion of the process of constructing meaning. "Getting your idea across" so
others know/understand what you want them to - Answers content results
A person who takes appropriate action in the right way and effectively balances the good and
the expedient (expedient means proper under the circumstances) - Answers The meaning of
phronimos
Contributing to the repair of the world - Answers the meaning of tikkun olam
a relationship is the connection constructed between 2 humans who manage mutual
responding w/one another - Answers The COM 105 definition of relationship
- Relationship: the human connection = a relationship. A relationship is the connection
constructed between 2 humans who manage mutual responding w/one another. Occurs
simultaneously and inseparably - Answers relationship results
"habits" that -- usually outside of awareness and conscious control -- distinguish 1 collective
from another, as indicated by the communication practices "insiders" favor w/ one another -
Answers COM 105 definition of culture
Communication studies
Dept of communication - Answers The name of this major at UNCW, and the name of our
department
intellectual curiosity- commitment to allowing yourself to wonder, mentally alive - Answers core
skills (1)
confidence- assumption of personal ability, resilience, tenacilty - Answers core skills (2)
collaboration- can't always be accomplished alone - Answers core skills (3)
critical thinking and problem solving- rigorous, comprehensive ratio-nation, focus on solution -
Answers core skills (4)
, Responsibility- Primus inter pares "first among equals" - Answers core skills (5)
Praxis- taking action in alignment with theory phronimos - Answers core skills (6)
- Analyzing= diagnose, infer, categorize, compare, and contrast...break down categories for
inspection
- Applying= "mapping" from what you know and comprehend to giving or recognizing examples
- Comprehending= understanding, rephrasing, "translating"
- Recall= memorizing, "regurgitating" - Answers 4 stages in blooms taxonomy of learning
1. Never bore your audience
2. Every choice must be purposeful
3. Rehearse and fine-tune
4. Compose a powerful opening and closing
5. Mr. Silence is your friend (aka pause while speaking) - Answers What are Weber's 5
Unbreakable Rules of Public Speaking?
1. Invention: WHAT to say
2. Arrangement: how to SEQUENCE it
3. Style: decorum must drive all choices, especially regarding language
4. Memory: REMEMBER what you planned
5. Delivery: "PACKAGE" it all effectively - Answers Know the Five Canons INSIDE OUT AND
BACKWARDS
how to observe in any situation the available means of persuasion
Exigence—problem to address
Audience—people who can address it
Constraints—factors that control/shape/limit your choices in developing the message - Answers
Be able to define a rhetorical situation, and know the three elements of one.
Rhetorical artifact: (the speech was the first) the composition the rhetor presents
Rhetorical text is a synonym for rhetorical artifact - Answers What is a rhetorical artifact? Is
Managing mutual responding - Answers The official COM 105 definition of communication
-Search: informing yourself about the topic (research)
-Justice: concerns fact vs. opinion
-Transparency: concerns motives
- Respect for dissent: able to hear people disagree w/you - Answers Wallace's Four Habits of an
ethically responsible communicator
- Content: the completion of the process of constructing meaning. "Getting your idea across" so
others know/understand what you want them to - Answers content results
A person who takes appropriate action in the right way and effectively balances the good and
the expedient (expedient means proper under the circumstances) - Answers The meaning of
phronimos
Contributing to the repair of the world - Answers the meaning of tikkun olam
a relationship is the connection constructed between 2 humans who manage mutual
responding w/one another - Answers The COM 105 definition of relationship
- Relationship: the human connection = a relationship. A relationship is the connection
constructed between 2 humans who manage mutual responding w/one another. Occurs
simultaneously and inseparably - Answers relationship results
"habits" that -- usually outside of awareness and conscious control -- distinguish 1 collective
from another, as indicated by the communication practices "insiders" favor w/ one another -
Answers COM 105 definition of culture
Communication studies
Dept of communication - Answers The name of this major at UNCW, and the name of our
department
intellectual curiosity- commitment to allowing yourself to wonder, mentally alive - Answers core
skills (1)
confidence- assumption of personal ability, resilience, tenacilty - Answers core skills (2)
collaboration- can't always be accomplished alone - Answers core skills (3)
critical thinking and problem solving- rigorous, comprehensive ratio-nation, focus on solution -
Answers core skills (4)
, Responsibility- Primus inter pares "first among equals" - Answers core skills (5)
Praxis- taking action in alignment with theory phronimos - Answers core skills (6)
- Analyzing= diagnose, infer, categorize, compare, and contrast...break down categories for
inspection
- Applying= "mapping" from what you know and comprehend to giving or recognizing examples
- Comprehending= understanding, rephrasing, "translating"
- Recall= memorizing, "regurgitating" - Answers 4 stages in blooms taxonomy of learning
1. Never bore your audience
2. Every choice must be purposeful
3. Rehearse and fine-tune
4. Compose a powerful opening and closing
5. Mr. Silence is your friend (aka pause while speaking) - Answers What are Weber's 5
Unbreakable Rules of Public Speaking?
1. Invention: WHAT to say
2. Arrangement: how to SEQUENCE it
3. Style: decorum must drive all choices, especially regarding language
4. Memory: REMEMBER what you planned
5. Delivery: "PACKAGE" it all effectively - Answers Know the Five Canons INSIDE OUT AND
BACKWARDS
how to observe in any situation the available means of persuasion
Exigence—problem to address
Audience—people who can address it
Constraints—factors that control/shape/limit your choices in developing the message - Answers
Be able to define a rhetorical situation, and know the three elements of one.
Rhetorical artifact: (the speech was the first) the composition the rhetor presents
Rhetorical text is a synonym for rhetorical artifact - Answers What is a rhetorical artifact? Is
