Research Basics
This process involves gathering credible information to support your speech.
What is research?
Facts and numbers used to support your point fall under this type of evidence.
What are statistics?
These are Aristotle’s three classic modes of persuasion.
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
The symbolic process in which communicators try to convince other people to change their attitudes or behavior regarding an issue through the transmission of a message, in an atmosphere of free choice.
What is persuasion?
These are the two main types of sources used in research.
What are primary and secondary sources?
Using an expert’s words or experiences to support your point is called this.
What is testimony?
Logical reasoning and evidence appeal to this.
What is logos?
This should be relevant, not be used out of context, and should be timely and not out of date.
What is supporting evidence?
Taking classes in statistics and quantitative research methods helps you better understand this.
What is statistical research?
A truth that is arrived at through the scientific process.
What is a fact?
Appealing to the audience’s emotions uses this rhetorical strategy.
What is pathos?
This is an organizational pattern used for persuasive speeches involving 5 steps: attention, need, satisfaction, visualization, and action.
What is Monroe’s Motivated Sequence?
This is making the connection between your support and your argument.
What is an analysis?
This is used to clarify or clearly illustrate a principle, method, or phenomenon.
What is a positive example?
A speaker gains the audience’s trust through this kind of appeal.
What is ethos?
Addressing opposing arguments and explaining why your view is stronger demonstrates this.
What is refutation?
This involves actually reading a quotation, paraphrasing a speaker or author’s words, summarizing a speaker or author’s ideas, providing numerical support, or showing pictographic support.
What is execution?
These are stories that help an audience understand the speaker’s message.
What are narratives?
This persuasive element asks your audience to do something specific after your speech.
What is a call to action?
When you move from specific examples to a general conclusion, you are using this reasoning pattern.
What is inductive reasoning?