Do the Review Questions 3 thru 8 at the top of page 163 ---> From book The_Art_o

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Do the Review Questions 3 thru 8 at the top of page 163 ---> From book The_Art_of_Public_Speaking 2

After reading this chapter, you should be able to answer the following questions: Why do you need supporting materials in your speeches? What are the three kinds of examples discussed in this chapter? How might you use each kind to support your ideas? What are five tips for using examples in your speeches? Why is it so easy to lie with statistics? What three questions should you ask to judge the reliability of statistics? What are six tips for using statistics in your speeches? What is testimony? Explain the difference between expert andtestimony peer testimony. What are four tips for using testimony in your speeches? What four pieces of information do you usually need to provide when making oral source citations in a speech?

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3. Five tips for using examples in our speeches are as follows:

4. It is easy to lie with statistics because statistics has several different approaches whose goal will be unified but the answers will be different. No two methods in statistics will give the same answers. All the approaches will give different answer leading to manipulation and distortion hence it is easy to lie with statistics. The three questions that needs to be asked in order to judge the reliability of statistics are as follows:

5. The six tips for using statistics in our speeches are as follows:

6. Testimony are used to support a point during a speech. It is the quotations or paraphrases used to support a point.

Expert testimony happens when the quotations given by experts from various fields are recognized.

Peer testimony occurs when the ordinary people with first hand experience or insight on a topic come up with quotations.

7. Four tips for using testimony in our speeches are as follows:

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