Supporting materials (3)
Materials used to support an idea
Examples, statistics, testimony
Examples (3)
Specific case to illustrate or represent a group of people, ideas, conditions, experiences, or the like
Brief, extended, hypothetical
Tips for examples (5)
To clarify
Reinforce
Personalized
Vivid and richly texturized
Practice delivery to enhance example
Statistics
Numerical data
Questions to judge reliability (3)
Representative?
Used correctly?
Reliable?
Tips for statistics (6)
To quantify ideas
Use sparingly
Identify source
Explain
Round off complicated stats
Visual aids
Testimony (3)
Quotations or paraphrases to support a point
Expert, peer testimony, quoting and paraphrasing
Tips for testimony (4)
Quote or paraphrasing accurately
Qualified sources
Unbiased sources
Identify the people
Direct Quotation
Testimony that is presented word for word
Paraphrase
To restate or summarize a source's ideas in your own words
Quoting out of context
Quoting to distort its meaning by removing the statement from the words and phrases surrounding
Oral citations
Date, source, author, author's qualifications
Mean
Average
Median
Middle
Mode
Frequency