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PubSpeak 8-1 Supporting Ideas

Published on Feb 06, 2016

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public speaking

8-1  Supporting Your ideas

supporting your ideas

SUPPORTING MATERIALS
The materials used to support a speaker's ideas. The 3 major kids of supporting materials are examples, statistics, and testimony

example

EXAMPLE
A specific case used to illustrate or represent a group of people, ideas, conditions, experiences,
or the like

BRIEF EXAMPLE
A specific case referred to in passing to illustrate a point

EXTENDED EXAMPLE
A story, narrative, or anecdote developed at some length to illustrate a point

HYPOTHETICAL EXAMPLE
An example that describes an imaginary or fictitious situation

which means ...

statistics

STATISTICS
Numerical Data

UNDERSTANDING STATISTICS

Use Statistics Sparingly

Identify the Sources of
your statistics

Round off complicated statistics

Use visual aids to clarify statistical rends

testimony

testimony

TESTIMONY
Quotations or paraphrases used to support point

CITING SOurces orally