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Recall that supporting materials serve a variety of purposes in your speech—building audience interest, helping the audience understand, and proving facts to the audience. In the Internet era, it is not difficult to find mass quantities of information on your topic in a short amount of time. It is not as easy, however, to select the best supporting materials out of all the information you have found. How can you be sure to select the most effective supporting materials? The following guidelines can help.