Chapter 504: Speech Choices Videos

Chapter 7 Speech Choices Video: Research and Evidence

Watch Research and Evidence from Jacob’s speech and answer the following questions.

1. Jacob’s use of evidence to document the federal poverty level is problematic because

a top-level domain name such as “.gov” cannot be a credible evidence source.

authors of government documents lack expertise.

he fails to fully cite his research source fully.

it is not precise evidence.

2. If Jacob wanted to interview a source on campus about an appropriate salary for college athletes, which source would be most credible?

An athlete who is currently on the football team

A professor of labor economics

The director of the housing unit where the student athletes live

The head baseball coach

3. Which of the following facts could provide evidence that helps Jacob develop a two-sided argument in this part of his speech?

Parking and library fines are too high at this college.

Student athletes are not paid for the use of their images in video games.

The college could afford to pay the salaries he proposed.

The tutoring center is closed when athletes finish with practice.