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as your textbook explains, wikipedia can be a good place to start research, but you need to consult other sources in addition to wikipedia
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most library catalogues allow a researchers to look for books by author, title, subject, or keyword
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yahoo is an example of a virtual library
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one of the strengths of the internet as a research tool is the access it provides to government documents and publications
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you can almost always count on reliability of internet research materials found through major search engines such as google and yahoo
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peer testimony is made up of options from ordinary people with firsthand experience or insight on a topic
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research has shown that the more statistics you use, the more effective your speech is likely to be
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the three basic types of supporting materials discussed in your textbook are examples, statistics, and testimony
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in most cases, you should round off statistics when presenting them in a speech
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oral citations in a speech should include the full address of each web site mentioned by the speaker
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"to persuade my audience that congress should ban the expotation of dangerous pesticides" is a specific purpose statement for a persuasive speech on a question of policy whose aim is immediate action
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"to persuade my audience that genetically altered crops pose hazards to human health" is a specific purpose statement for a persuasive speech on a question of fact
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of all kinds of public speaking, persuasion is the most complex and the most challenging
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once you go beyond arguing right or wrong to arguing that something should or should not be done, you are moving from a question of opinion to a question of value
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the first step in monroes motivated sequence is to get the attention of the audience
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a speakers credibility can change during the course of her or his speech
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hasty generalization is a fallacy in reasoning from principle
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research indicates that listeners are more likely to be persuaded by evidence that is new to them than by facts and figures they already know
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the following is an example of reasoning from analogy: "the united nations charter establishes the right of all people to live free of political oppression. the government of north Korea subject its people to political oppression therefore, the government of north korea is violation the UN charter"
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when you use casual reasoning in a persuasive speech, you seek to establish the relationship between a general principle and a specific conclusion
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"family is a well of comparison we return to for comfort in times of need" is an example of a simile
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abstract words are usually cleaver to listeners than are concrete words
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the connotative meaning of a word is more variable, figurative, ad subjective than its denotative meaning
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the words we use to label an event determine to a great extent how we respond to that event
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using the masculine pronoun "he" in a speech is an inclusive way to designate "all persons"
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in an extemporaneous speech, the exact wording is chosen at the moment of delivery
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in the united states, public speakers who establish strong eye contact
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