Fran is delivering a speech to a group of prospective clients. She pauses at the beginning and at the end of her speech. During her speech she pauses many times in the middle of sentences and has to look down at her notes. These pauses last on average 5-10 seconds, but the longest lasts almost a minute while she shuffles through her notes.The speaker’s use of pauses in her speech reflect that she is all of the following except
Frequent pauses in the middle of sentences, repeated looks at notes, and a nearly minute-long pause while searching through papers suggest Fran is ill-prepared and unpracticed. Those behaviors may also make her seem less credible. They do not show that she is knowledgeable, so “knowledgeable” is the exception.
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