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Teacher prompts: “Did the speaker maintain good eye contact with the audience?” “Did the speaker’s gestures ‘punctuate’ the speech appropriately and effectively, or were they distracting or irritating?”
Language Choice
2.5 evaluate the language, including any specialized vocabulary, used in business and technological communications to determine whether it is appropriate to the topic, the purpose, and the audience’s level of knowledge about the subject (e.g., determine whether the specialized language used in a memo really contributes to its accuracy and conciseness or is unnecessarily obscure and confusing; compare a text written in a plain- language style for a general audience to a text on the same topic written for experts, and comment on the benefits and drawbacks of each style; com- pare the language of the executive summary of a report to the language of the report itself and suggest reasons for the differences)
Teacher prompts: “What terms in this text would need to be explained to a reader outside the industry?” “How would you describe the language of this letter?” “Why is the language used in forms often difficult to understand?”