For the following main points, write a specific purpose statement, a central idea, and give
examples of three types of appropriate supporting material for the topic.
I. Low-carbohydrate diets are not well balanced.
II.
Low-carbohydrate diets have not been proven to be effective.
III. Low-carbohydrate diets are not well balanced.
What will be an ideal response?
Specific purpose: at the end of my speech, my audience should believe that
low-carbohydrate diets are harmful. Central idea: Low-carbohydrate diets are harmful
to your health. Supporting material might include statistics on such things as how many
people are using the diet, or how much money is spent yearly on the diets. If statistics
can be found on how many people lose weight, how much, and how long they keep it
off, they would be effective. In order to make the speech more interesting to the
audience, the speaker might find illustrations that might consist of people who have
stories about the diet, or maybe a hypothetical illustration of a person trying to stay on
the diet. Expert testimony of medical doctors or medical researchers might be effective
to make the arguments believable. Lay testimony might help make the arguments clear
or identifiable for the audience.
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