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Supporting Your Ideas

This guide explores the various methods of supporting your ideas, focusing on three key types: examples, statistics, and testimony. Learn how to use brief and extended examples to clarify and personalize your message, and discover the importance of statistical measures like mean, median, and mode to quantify your points. We will also discuss the significance of expert and peer testimony in providing credible support. With practical tips on how to effectively deliver and cite your sources, you will enhance your presentations and strengthen your arguments.

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Supporting Your Ideas

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  1. Supporting Your Ideas

  2. Supporting Materials • Examples • Statistics • Testimony

  3. Example Specific case to illustrate idea

  4. Types of Examples • Brief • Extended • Hypothetical

  5. Brief Example Specific case referred to in passing to illustrate point

  6. Extended Example Story, narrative, anecdote developed at length to illustrate point

  7. Hypothetical Example Example describing fictitious situation

  8. Tips for Examples • Clarify ideas • Reinforce ideas • Personalize ideas • Make vivid, richly textured • Practice delivery to enhance

  9. Statistical Measures • Mean • Median • Mode

  10. Mean Average value of group of numbers

  11. Median Middle figure in group once figures are ordered highest to lowest

  12. Mode Number occurring most frequently in group

  13. Tips for Statistics • Use to quantify ideas • Use sparingly • Identify sources • Explain thoroughly • Round off • Use visual aids if needed

  14. Testimony Quotations or paraphrases used to support point

  15. Expert Testimony Testimony from recognized experts

  16. Peer Testimony Testimony from ordinary people with firsthand experience, insight

  17. Direct Quote Testimony presented word for word

  18. Out-of-Context Quote Distorting statement by removing words, phrases around it

  19. Paraphrase Restating source’s ideas in own words

  20. Tips for Testimony • Quote, paraphrase accurately • Use qualified sources • Use unbiased sources • Identify sources

  21. Citing Sources Orally • Name of document • Author, sponsoring organization • Qualifications • Date

  22. Oral Citation “Kenneth Chang, science reporter for The New York Times, reported in the paper’s March 13, 2011, issue that the recent quake in Japan widened the country by 13 feet. It also tilted the earth’s axis and shortened the day by a couple millionths of a second.”

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