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Learning Objectives:
• Supporting your ideas by:
examples statistics testimony
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Narration
• Personal • Third-person • Second
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Statistics
• Single • Multiple • Tips:
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Statistics
• Don’t rely exclusively on statistics. • Use representative statistics • Identify the sources of statistics • Form reliable sources • Round off. • Explain statistics • Use presentational aids. • Stress their impact.
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Types of Supporting Materials
•1 •2 •3
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Examples
• Brief • Extended • Actual • Hypothetical
Tea is popular.
Large
Tea is second only to
quantities of water as the world’s most
tea are
consumed beverage. More
consumed tea is consumed each year
by people than all other
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Key Terms
• Supporting materials
Ő example (brief ,extended , hypothetical ) Ő Statistics (single, multiple) Ő Testimony (expert, peer)
around the manufactured drinks in
globe.
the world put together,
including coffee,
chocolate, soft drinks and
alcohol. Total tea
consumption is 4 billion
kilograms annually.
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Purposes of Supporting Materials
• Clarity • Vividness • Credibility
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Hale Waihona Puke Slide 12Testimony
• Direct quotation • Paraphrase
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Tips for using examples
• Make examples vivid and richly textured • Reinforce examples with statistic or
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Testimony
Tips: Quote or paraphrase Quote or paraphrase accurately Form qualified/unbiased sources Identify the people you quote or
paraphrase
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Tests of Evidence
• Is the evidence quoted in context? • Is the source of the evidence an expert? • Is the source of the evidence unbiased? • Is the evidence relevant to the point? • Is the evidence specific? • Is the evidence sufficient to prove the point? • Is the evidence timely?