SUPPORTING MATERIALS
Information used to explain, develop, or support the main idea of a speech
What are supporting materials?
A speaker should consider this group when choosing supporting materials.
Who is the Audience?
This type of example describes an imagined situation that could happen.
What is a hypothetical example?
Testimony from a trained professional is a specific field
What is expert testimony?
Information about an actual event, date, person, or place that can be independently verified.
What is a fact?
These help make a speech more interesting, understandable, and believable
What are supporting materials?
What are the Audience's Characteristics?
This type of example gives a short illustration of a point
What is a brief example?
Testimony from a nonexpert or eyewitness?
What is a lay testimony?
Numerical information is used to summarize, compare, or demonstrate relationships.
What is a statistic?
Supporting materials should be chosen based on both the audience and this.
What is the speaker's goal?
This is important when deciding whether an individual's testimony should be trusted
What is credibility?
This statistic is calculated by adding all the values together and dividing by the number of values.
What is the mean?
This is the middle value in an ordered set of numbers.
What is the median?
Choosing only statistics that support your argument while ignoring relevant information that doesn’t.
What is cherry-picking?