List and explain the specific organizational strategies for organizing supporting

evidence.

What will be an ideal response?


1. Primacy: Present the most important material first.
2. Recency: Present the most important material last.
3. Specificity: Move from specific information to a general overview or from a general overview to specific information.
4. Complexity: Move from simple to more complex information
5. "Soft" to "hard" evidence: Move from opinion or hypothetical illustration, for example, to a fact or statistic.

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Lorna is giving a speech on 3D technology. In her introduction, she states, "Just a few years ago, 3D technology was relegated to the back shelf because of its expense to produce. But with 2009'sĀ Avatar, that situation changed. Now, many of our top-grossing movies can be found in 3D format, and I'm sure most of you have seen at least one movie in 3D in the past six months." With this opening, what is Lorna trying to establish?

A. Her listeners' doubts about the topic B. The currency of her topic C. Her listeners' vested interest in the topic D. The relevance of her topic to the listeners

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Which of the following is not a negative practice when you are demonstrating a process?

a. long silences b. visuals that are too small c. talking as you demonstrate d. exceeding the time limit

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What factors spurred the success of magazines' era of specialization?

What will be an ideal response?

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