Organizing Your Supporting Materials

After you select your main points, you need to develop (explain and prove) each one with supporting materials. Supporting materials enable your audience to understand your main points and help prove why you think those main points are valid. In Chapter 8, we discussed a number of different types of supporting materials that you can use, such as examples, definitions, and statistics. Now we consider how you can organize these supporting materials to help audience members follow your speech.

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