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Public Speaking for College and Career, 6/e
Hamilton Gregory

Supporting Your Ideas

Learning Objectives


1. Explain why support materials are needed in a speech.

2. Describe nine types of support materials: definitions, vivid images, examples, narratives, comparison, contrast, analogies, testimony, and statistics.

3. Discuss the use and abuse of statistics in speeches.