Exam 5: Selecting and Testing Support Material

What elements should be included when citing a reference work?

___________ are the credits for the original sources of the support material used in your speech.

Quoting from a psychiatrist on the topic of obsessive compulsive disorder is an example of using___________ testimony.

If you want to make sure you have strong logical appeals in your speech, should you use more expert or peer testimony? Explain why.

Your support materials are___________ when your audience is able to view the materials as relevant to them, to the topic, and to the occasion.

"Hawaii and Alaska became U.S. states in 1959." The preceding statement is an example of a fact.

When you are trying to make sure that your speech has a sufficient amount of comprehensive, detailed information, you are striving for

Write out a hypothetical example that would be effective in a speech about self-defense techniques.

As of May, 2010, 11 patients have undergone face transplants worldwide. This is an example of an inferential statistic.

You can never have too many statistics in a speech.

If your topic is not one that is changing rapidly, a good general research rule to follow is to use information published or collected in the past________________ years.

A(n)_____________ is the "middle value" in your set of numbers after you have placed them in increasing order.

Laura is giving a speech on a highly technical topic. For support material, Laura should use definitions, facts, brief examples, and statistics.

"Over the past five years, the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico has averaged 6,000 square miles." This is an example of a(n)

If you have relevant, pertinent personal knowledge on your topic, it will likely replace the need for other research.

What elements should be included when citing a magazine or journal in a speech?

_______________are useful when you want to quickly illustrate something in a speech.

Figurative analogy compares and contrasts two like things.

___________are verifiable bits of information about people, events, places, dates, and times.

Detailed examples that can be used as attention-getting devices or as support material to generate emotional responses are called ___________ .