A speech where the purpose is to convince audience members to consider or adopt a new position or belief.
What is a Persuasive Speech
100
______ are samples or instances that support or illustrate a general claim.
What are Examples
100
______ is the possession of knowledge necessary to offer reliable facts or opinions about the topic in question.
What is Expertise
100
______ are specialized programs that continually visit web pages and index what they find.
What is are Search Engines
100
________ consists of statements made by credible sources who have professional or other-in-depth knowledge of a topic.
What is Expert Testimony
200
A single sentence that captures the overall message you want to convey in your speech.
What is a Thesis Statement
200
The objective of your speech
What is Specific Purpose
200
A person who has _______ is able to witness a situation for himself or herself.
What is Observational Capacity
200
The process of writing down a word or phrase in the middle of a large piece of blank paper, and then surrounding it with words and images representing other ideas that come to you.
What is Mind Mapping
200
A _______ explains how somethings is used or what it does.
What is Functional Definition
300
The _______ of your speech is the occasion, surrounding environment, and situation in which you will deliver your presentation.
What is Context
300
Words or terms related to your topic as well as synonyms of those words.
What are Keywords
300
Sources who demonstrate ______ have no bias - prejudice or partisanship - that would prevent them from making an impartial judgement on your speech's topic.
What is Objectivity
300
The _____ contains information about the author of your evidence and where your evidence can be found.
What is a Citation
300
An __________ is a comparison based on similarities between two phenomena, one that's familiar to the audience and one that is less familiar.
What is Analogy
400
Through _______ you list every idea that comes to mind, without evaluating its merit.
What is Brainstorming
400
______ are information (or data) presented in numerical form.
What are Statistics
400
________ are publications that appear at regular intervals.
What are Publications
400
This type of testimony consists of statements made by persons with no special expertise in the subject they are discussing.
What is Lay Testimony
400
_______ are anecdotes (brief stories) or somewhat longer accounts that can be used to support your main points.
What are Narratives
500
Your intended effect on the audience
What is Rhetorical Purpose
500
A ______ will help your audience understand the link between particular events and their outcomes.
What is Causal Pattern
500
The process of rewording evidence in a way that better supports your claim but that misrepresents the source's point of view.
What is Power Wording
500
An _______ comes from a person who is a credible source of information on your topic.
What is Expert Definition
500
_______ are the different types of information that you use to develop and support different types of information that you use to develop and support your main points.