materi public speaking part type of supporting material

Researching the speech

Whether your reserch precedes or follows your analysisi, you will want it to accomplish three basic goals:

1.      To do develop or strengthen your own expertise on the topic

2.      To find the evidence that will support your ideas

3.      To make your ideas clear, understandable, and pertinent to your audience

Like every other aspect of public speaking, research involves strategic choiches. You simply can not find out all threre is to know about every possible aspect of your topic. Cosequently, you will have to decide:

·         How much general background reading to do and what sources to select for this purpose.

·         What issues in your speech will require specific suporting material.

·         What types of supporting material you will need and where you should go to find it.

·         How much supporting material you need to find.

Type of supporting material

1.      Personal experince

2.      Common knowledge

3.      Direct observation

4.      Examples

5.      Documents

6.      Statistics

7.      Testimony

Personal exprience

Suppose you’ve played baseball for several years. Is this experince worth mentioning? Why or why not?

Common knowledge

Are there any kinds of common knowledge you could draw on? What about the topic might connect with shared beliefs or values of a classroom audience?

One student speaker used common knowledge as supporting material when he said :

“every body knows that youth is a time for experimenting, for doing adventures things. That’s why you should consider signing up for study abroad.

Direct observation

How useful would the following experinces be for informing your speech : (a) you once wacthed a craftsperson make a baseball bat. (b) you were at a baseball game when a bat broke and flew across the field, although it didn’t hit anyone. (c) last summer you went to a major league game.

Example

What kinds of examples would help support your speech?

Type example : brief example, hypothical example, anecdote  

Documents

The term document has a more specific meaning. It refers to primary sources that can establish a claim directly, whitout the need for opinion or speculation

Document can be solid form of evidence if your audience regards them as trustworty-and if you quote them accurately. The exact words of a documentsprovide a record that is not skewed by the opinions and interpetations of other.

Statistics

Are number that record the extent of something or frequency with wich something occurs: they take such from as medians, averages, ration, indices, and standardized score.

Type of statistics : simple enumeration, surveys and polls, rates of change, experiments.

Testimony

You find an articel that qoutes some bat makers who think the new rules have no scientific merit. What types of information about article, the bat makers who are quoted, and the new rules themselves might help you decide how credible this testimony is?/by sukron-jazuli.