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This document discusses different types of supporting materials and critical thinking techniques that can be used to strengthen arguments and ideas, including examples, statistics, testimony, and listening skills. It provides tips on using brief and extended examples, hypothetical examples, statistics, expert and peer testimony, quotes versus paraphrasing, and understanding statistics. Sources of statistics are also listed.
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- 17. In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
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