complexity

(noun)

The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.

Examples of complexity in the following topics:

  • Tailor Complexity to Your Audience

    • An important component of effective informative speaking is knowing how to tailor the complexity of the speech to the audience.
    • To achieve these goals, a speaker should consider how best to package the complex understanding that they have cultivated of the topic, from personal experience and research, into an easily communicable form for the audience.
    • One way to deliver an effective informative speech and ensure that the audience leaves your speech informed is to tailor the complexity of the speech to the specific audience.
    • Therefore, you would want to tailor the complexity of your speech to the knowledge of the students, using fewer technical terms and more general explanations.
    • Tailor the complexity of your speech to the specific audience you will be delivering it to.
  • Types of Examples: Brief, Extended, and Hypothetical

    • Brief examples are used to further illustrate a point that may not be immediately obvious to all audience members but is not so complex that is requires a more lengthy example.
    • An extended example will likely take more time to explain than a brief example and will be about a more complex topic.
    • When explaining a complex idea such as an equation, a speaker will want to use an extended example and also use a visual aid to better help the audience understand the complicated topic.
  • Variations in Orality

    • Formulaic styling is to package complex ideas memorably for easy retention and recall.
    • Oral cultures avoid complex ‘subordinative' clauses.
    • Demonstrating how oral modes of communication tend to evolve into literate ones, Ong additionally cites the New American Bible (1970), which offers a translation that is grammatically far more complex:
    • Analyzing or breaking apart such expressions adds complexity to communications, and questions received wisdom.
    • Modern scholarship has shown that orality is a complex and tenacious social phenomenon.
  • Static Representations: Images, Drawings, and Graphs

    • However, it is graphs' complexity—detailed calculations, complex data and large figures—that cause them to become cluttered during use in a speech.
    • Drawings can be used in place of complex or detailed photographs.
  • Listening and Critical Thinking

    • Critical thinking has many practical applications, such as formulating a workable solution to a complex personal problem, deliberating in a group setting about what course of action to take, or analyzing the assumptions and methods used in arriving at a scientific hypothesis.
    • People use critical thinking to solve complex math problems or compare prices at the grocery store.
  • Personification

    • Personification is a way of using storytelling to craft your speech by personifying complex or abstract ideas or thoughts.
    • Your audience may better understand a complex subject when you give it human qualities and characteristics.
  • The Goals of an Informative Speech

    • In order to aim for this specific goal, a speaker should consider how best to package the complex understanding that they have cultivated of the topic, from personal experience and research, into an easily communicable form for the audience.
  • Avoiding Plagiarism When Using the Internet

    • With the advent of complex, proprietary search engine algorithms has come another niche market: plagiarism detection.
  • Alliteration

    • Alliteration adds a textural complexity to your speech that makes your words more engaging.
  • The Advantages and Disadvantages of PowerPoint

    • Oversimplification of topic: the linear nature of PowerPoint forces the presenter to reduce complex subjects to a set of bullet items that are too weak to support decision-making or show the complexity of an issue.
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