1. supporting your ideas
Six supporting devices:
1.example.
2.explanation.
3.statistic.
4.testimony.
5.comparison/contrast.
6.Visual aids.
2. 1.Example
give relatate,appropriate,and
interesting example for your
speech.
four kinds of example:
a.brief factual example (fact,prove)
b.brief hypothetical example (real,good reasons)
c.detailed factual example (complete,fact)
d.detailed hypothetical example
(complete,fact,reasons,and prove)
3. 2.Explanation
explain your speech by using reason,explain
clearly.
Four kinds of explanation:
a.exposition(gives information,increase
knowledge).
b.analysis(examining or testing
something,research).
c.definition(gives meaning using familiar
word,easy to understand).
c.describtion(desribe something
immaginatively,imagine a picture).
4. 3.statistic.
Give correct and complete
information:date,percentasion,and etc.
The ways to tell a statistic:
a.dramatize your statistic (tell a fact that
shocking,dramatic).
b.round off your statistic (tell a fact with
word or number that easy to remember).
c.display your statistic (tell a fact using
diagrams,charts,or tables.
5. 4.Testimony
give an opinion based on general
situation,and add with an expert
quotes or otentic prove: books of
the expers, books of laws,and bible
or holy books.
7. 6.Visual aids
suggestion when you use visual aids:
1.large, to be seen by the entire audience.
2.make simple but interest.
3.clearify to the point.
4.maintain good eye contact.
5.use posterboard or a flipboard.
6.make sure that the visual not take much
time.
8. Combined supports
use more than one supporting
device better than one. When you
explain,you also can use example
or statistic by using visual aids.
9. Gathering supporting materials
There are two primary source of in formation:
1.Written source(books,newspapers,and magazines).
2.intervies.
You must take careful notes which include the exact
source of your information.
a.Written materials( library,books store,or someone’s
collection).
b.interviewing( expert poeple,community
leaders, politicals).
you should do this things to make good referrences is
tapes record or taking notes.
