Speech Checklists

Chapter 7: Supporting Materials Checklist

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1.

Do I use examples to make ideas clear to my audience?

2.

Do I use examples to personalize ideas for my audience?

3.

Do I reinforce my hypothetical examples with statistics or testimony?

4.

Are my extended examples vivid and richly textured?

5.

Have I practiced the delivery of my extended examples to give them dramatic effect?

6.

Do I use statistics to quantify my ideas?

7.

Are my statistics representative of what they purport to measure?

8.

Are my statistics from reliable sources?

9.

Do I cite the sources of my statistics?

10.

Do I use statistical measures (mean, median, mode) correctly?

11.

Do I round off complicated statistics?

12.

Do I use visual aids to clarify statistical trends?

13.

Do I explain my statistics and relate them to the audience?

14.

Do I use testimony to support my ideas?

15.

Do I use testimony from qualified sources?

16.

Do I use testimony from unbiased sources?

17.

Do I identify the sources of all testimony?

18.

Do I quote and paraphrase all sources of testimony with complete accuracy?

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