Listening Listening Skills Suggested in the Textbook Insights from Listening Research Critical Thinking

Text Suggestions Determine Listening Goal Transform listening barriers into listening goals Mentally summarize details Mentally weave summaries into mainpoints Practice listening to challenging material Ask questions Paraphrase

Listening Listening Skills Suggested in the Textbook Insights from Listening Research Critical Thinking

Barriers to Listening Listening and hearing are the same thing. Listening competency develops naturally through daily practice Listening is largely due to intelligence Listening and reading are the same process Listening is primarily as passive task Effective communication is the responsibility of the speaker Listening means agreement or obedience

Listening Habits of the Effective and Ineffective Listening for Mistakes 1. Controlling through feedback 2. Asking why the subject might be valuable Faking AttentionMonitor Behavior Paper and pencil listening 1. Using notes 2. Using different notation methods Calling the subject boring Delay evaluating subject Listening for the factsListen for main ideas; note details

Listening Listening Skills Suggested in the Textbook Insights from Listening Research Critical Thinking

Informal Fallacies False cause – post hoc ergo propter hoc – Post hoc for short Bandwagon fallacy – ad populum Either or fallacy Hasty generalization Attacking the person – ad hominem Red herring Non sequitur

Other Fallacies You Need to Know Appeal to authority, rather than the authority’s reasons: Ad verecundiam Begging the Question

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