Identify the four broad categories of supporting materials and explain how they can be used in a speech.
What will be an ideal response?
- The four broad categories are experience, narratives, data, and opinions.
- Speakers can draw on their own experience to show the audience how they have been personally affected by the subject of the speech.
- Narratives are used by speakers to explain a situation in terms of a story.
- Data provides hard facts as supporting material which can be verified by a source. Data is typically presented as a table or chart.
- Opinions are subjective judgments that cannot be verified. Opinions of experts, however, are viewed more positively. The speaker must verify that the opinion they are using comes from a person who is considered an expert in their field.
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