What is the function of supporting material?
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What is a tool commonly employed in speeches that expresses a typical instance or illustration of a general principle?
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Which of the following types of examples offers a single illustration of a speech point?
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“You may save a life if you donate your organs.” This type of supporting material is known as a(n) __________.
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Why are stories often a powerful means of conveying a message?
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An environmental scientist’s eyewitness account of an event such as the Gulf Coast oil spill is a form of __________.
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Most people need evidence in the form of __________ before they will accept someone else’s claims or position.
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Which of the following does not represent a fact?
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When including statistics as supporting material in a speech, it is important to __________.
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Frequency is best used in a speech to accomplish which of the following goals?
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Differences or similarities of magnitude between things can be best expressed through __________.
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When you want to inform your audience of the most frequently occurring average temperature in the year 2014, you would utilize which kind of average?
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When a speaker makes the unethical choice to include only statistics that prove his or her point and purposefully omits competing information, he or she is __________.
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When your speech relies heavily on statistical information, consider presenting it with __________.
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Audience members will accept your supporting material as legitimate only if they believe that it is derived from sources that are __________.
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