All about Chapter 6
The general term for evidence a speaker uses to strengthen claims.
What is supporting material?
Statistics are best defined as measurements based primarily on
What are numbers?
Testimony is defined as the sharing of an individual’s viewpoints, perspectives, or
What are opinions?
One main purpose of citing sources is to establish the speaker’s
What is credibility?
Contextual reasoning helps speakers tailor their materials to the speech’s situation and audience's
What are expectations?
Using a variety of support types impacts and improves
What is Audience Engagement/Interest/Understanding?
Using facts in a speech mainly helps strengthen the speaker’s
What is credibility?
Testimony that shares the beliefs or experiences of everyday people rather than specialists
What is lay testimony?
An example in public speaking is best defined as
What is an illustration of a claim?
Giving highly technical statistics during a casual celebratory speech would be considered, given the situation andsupport material used
What is poor contextual reasoning?
Before choosing supporting material, you should evaluate the speech type, the setting and mood, and this third key factor.
What is the audience?
A sign that a statement may be an opinion instead of a fact is the use of
What are adjectives?
When a recognized authority in a field is cited to support a claim, this type of testimony is being used.
What is expert testimony?
Short, brief stories used to illustrate a point are commonly called
What is an anecdote?
Support that seems weak in one context may be strong in another, meaning speakers must evaluate support on a what-by-what basis.
What is case-by-case?
Choosing the right type of supporting material depends primarily on understanding the speech’s
What is the context?
Politicians, businesspeople, and educators all use statistics primarily to
What is support decisions/support arguments/back up claims?
If a commercial features a celebrity talking about their experience using a product, this would likely be classified as this testimony
What is lay testimony?
Stories that describe imaginary scenarios to help audiences visualize a point are known as these types of examples.
What are hypothetical examples?
Contextual reasoning is not just about sound logic but also about understanding the speech situation’s feeling and
What is mood?
A speaker giving a tribute would most likely rely more on stories and personal examples rather than
What are statistics?
When a speaker highlights only statistics that support their position while ignoring conflicting data, this misleading practice
What is cherry-picking?
Speakers should use personal experience as support only sparingly and mainly when it meets this key requirement related to their main claim.
What is relevance?
When citing, speakers should typically include the author, the type of source, date, and
What is the title or description of the source?
A touching personal story would be most appropriate in an informal speech honoring a
What is a friend/Family member/ Partner?