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SUPPORTING SUPPORTING YOUR YOUR IDEASIDEAS

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Supporting Materials Lend Supporting Materials Lend CredibilityCredibility To Your Central To Your Central Idea And Main PointsIdea And Main Points

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Unsupported Unsupported AssertionsAssertions Leave Listeners Leave Listeners SkepticalSkeptical

SpecificSpecific & & CredibleCredible

Details Are Details Are More More

ConvincingConvincing

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Critical ThinkingCritical Thinking Is Is Essential In Choosing & Essential In Choosing & Assessing The Quality Assessing The Quality Of Supporting MaterialsOf Supporting Materials

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Supporting Materials Supporting Materials Must Be:Must Be:AccurateAccurateRelevantRelevantFrom Reliable SourcesFrom Reliable Sources

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Three Basic Types of Three Basic Types of Supporting Materials:Supporting Materials:

ExamplesExamplesStatisticsStatisticsTestimonyTestimony

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ExamplesExamplesGet an Audience Get an Audience InvolvedInvolved In the SpeechIn the SpeechConcrete details make ideasConcrete details make ideas

SpecificSpecificPersonalPersonalLivelyLively

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Three Types of Examples:Three Types of Examples: BriefBrief ExtendedExtended HypotheticalHypothetical

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Tips For Using Tips For Using Examples:Examples: Use Examples To Use Examples To

ClarifyClarify IdeasIdeas Use Examples To Use Examples To

Reinforce Reinforce IdeasIdeas Use Examples To Use Examples To PersonalizePersonalize Ideas Ideas

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Make Examples Make Examples Vivid Vivid && Richly TexturedRichly Textured

PracticePractice Delivery To Delivery To EnhanceEnhance Examples Examples

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StatisticsStatistics Can Be Cited In Passing To Can Be Cited In Passing To

Lend Support & Credibility To Lend Support & Credibility To A PointA Point

Can Be Used In Combination Can Be Used In Combination To Show The Magnitude Or To Show The Magnitude Or

Seriousness Of An IssueSeriousness Of An Issue

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Statistics Can Be Easily Statistics Can Be Easily ManipulatedManipulated or or DistortedDistorted; Therefore, ; Therefore, speakers speakers MustMust::

Make Sure Statistics Are Make Sure Statistics Are Representative Of What Representative Of What They Claim To MeasureThey Claim To Measure

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Understand Statistical Understand Statistical Measures:Measures:

MeanMeanMedianMedian

ModeMode

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Make Sure Statistics Make Sure Statistics Come From A Come From A ReliableReliable SourceSource

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Tips For Using Statistics:Tips For Using Statistics:Use Statistics To Use Statistics To QuantifyQuantify IdeasIdeas

Use Statistics Use Statistics SparinglySparinglyIdentifyIdentify The The SourcesSources Of Of StatisticsStatistics

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Explain Explain StatisticsStatisticsRound OffRound Off Complicated Complicated StatisticsStatistics

Use Use Visual AidsVisual Aids To To Clarify StatisticsClarify Statistics

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TestimonyTestimonyAdds Strength & Impact To Adds Strength & Impact To A Speaker’s Ideas, Because A Speaker’s Ideas, Because Listeners Are Often Listeners Are Often Influenced By People Who Influenced By People Who Have Special Knowledge Of Have Special Knowledge Of Experience In A TopicExperience In A Topic

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Two Kinds of Two Kinds of Testimony:Testimony:PeerPeerExpertExpert

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Tips For Using Tips For Using Testimony:Testimony:

Quote Or Paraphrase Quote Or Paraphrase AccuratelyAccurately

Use Testimony From Use Testimony From Qualified SourcesQualified Sources

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Tips For Using Tips For Using Testimony:Testimony:

Use Testimony From Use Testimony From Unbiased SourcesUnbiased Sources

IdentifyIdentify The People You The People You Quote Or ParaphraseQuote Or Paraphrase