Supporting Materials
These clarify, support arguments, persuade, or provide specifics for the audience.
What is...supporting materials?
This supporting material can be personal, literary, historical, or hypothetical.
What is... narratives/stories/anecdotes?
What is... expert & peer?
How we organize and interpret patterns of stimuli around us.
What is... Perception?
To make key words/concepts stand out.
Supporting Materials are found in this area of the outline for a speech.
What is... subpoints or sub-subpoints?
This clarifies while adding tone or attitude by utilizing the 5 senses.
What is... description?
Pieces of info with citations/credible sources that can be used to clarify or prove a point.
What is... historical/scientific fact?
*testimony or statistics is also an OK answer because they also technically fit this description
To draw attention of the audience via discord/trouble.
What is... conflict?
The physical closeness of audience:room.
What is... proximity?
"______" is the general idea, and "______" are the specifics.
What is...main idea/point, supporting materials?
The words of others that provide insight or prove arguments.
What is... testimony?
Kinesthetic versus Organic.
What is... related to your physical body vs. feelings related to internal being?
Motion within your speech/presentation.
What is...movement?
The reiteration of main points & structure.
What is... repetition?
Give an example of a main idea and some supporting ideas.
Example: main idea: emotions
supporting ideas: love, sadness, disgust
What is... statistics/stats?
The 5 senses.
What is... 1. Sight 2. Sound/Hearing 3. Taste 4. Smell 5. Touch/Feeling
The raising/lowering of your voice/energy or speeding up/slowing down at key times.
What is... intensity?
The 5 reasons we pay attention.
What is... 1. because we choose to focus 2. expectations 3. needs 4. past experience 5. the factors of attention
The 7 types of supporting materials
What is... 1. Examples 2. Narratives 3. Definitions 4. Descriptions 5. Historical/Scientific Fact 6. Statistics 7. Testimony
To set limits on something, what it means, or how you will use it.
What is... to define/definitions?
This will help determine what examples are appropriate in your speech for your audience.
What is... demographics/psychographics?
To pay attention.
What is... to focus on one thing over another, while ignoring other distractions/stimuli.
The 12 attention factors.
What is... 1. Movement 2. Conflict 3. Novelty 4. Humor 5. Familiarity 6. Contrast 7. Repetition 8. Suspense 9. Proximity 10. Need-oriented 11. Intensity 12. Concreteness