Chapter 504: Speech Choices Videos

Chapter 9 Speech Choices Video: Presenting and Developing Main Points

Watch Presenting and Developing Main Points from Jacob’s speech and answer the following questions.

1. What would be a good transition into this main point?

“According to an article that I read, the average college football player spends forty-three hours per week on football.”

“Don’t you want to know how hard it is to be a student athlete?”

“When college students play sports, their studies suffer. They practice for hours, they miss classes, and they play games on school days.”

“Let’s start by taking a look at how participating in sports affects the amount of time that athletes can spend on academics.”

2. How should Jacob have presented his research source for this main point?

“According to Marc Edelman, a law professor at the City University of New York, in Forbes, January 30, 2014 …”

“I don’t want to bore you with citations, but you can see my bibliography after the speech.”

“This is from a source I already told you about in my introduction.”

“This is from www.forbes.com, a reputable business news outlet.”

3. What type of reasoning is Jacob using on this main point?

Comparison

Correlational

Example

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