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Enhancing Your Ideas with Supporting Materials

Learn how to use examples, statistics, and testimony effectively to strengthen your arguments and make your ideas more persuasive. Discover different types of examples, statistical measures, and tips for incorporating testimony in your writing or presentations.

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Enhancing Your Ideas with Supporting Materials

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  1. 7 Supporting Your Ideas

  2. Supporting Materials • Examples • Statistics • Testimony

  3. Example A specific case used to illustrate or to represent a group of people, ideas, conditions, experiences, or the like.

  4. Types of Examples • Brief examples • Extended examples • Hypothetical examples

  5. Brief Example A specific case referred to in passing to illustrate a point.

  6. Extended Example A story, narrative, or anecdote developed at some length to illustrate a point.

  7. Hypothetical Example An example that describes an imaginary or fictitious situation.

  8. Tips for Using Examples • Use examples to clarify your ideas • Use examples to reinforce your ideas • Use examples to personalize your ideas

  9. Tips for Using Examples • Make your examples vivid and richly textured • Practice delivery to enhance your extended examples

  10. Statistical Measures • Mean • Median • Mode

  11. Mean The average value of a group of numbers.

  12. Median The middle figure in a group once the figures are put in order from the highest to the lowest.

  13. Mode The number that occurs most frequently in a group of numbers.

  14. Tips for Using Statistics • Make sure the statistics are from a reliable source • Use statistics to quantify your ideas • Use statistics sparingly • Identify the sources of your statistics

  15. Tips for Using Statistics • Explain your statistics • Round off complicated statistics • Use visual aids to clarify statistical trends

  16. Testimony Quotations or paraphrases used to support a point.

  17. Expert Testimony Testimony from people who are recognized experts in their fields.

  18. Peer Testimony Testimony from ordinary people with firsthand experience or insight on a topic.

  19. Direct Quotation Testimony that is presented word for word.

  20. Quoting Out of Context Distorting a statement’s meaning by removing the statement from the words and phrases surrounding it.

  21. Paraphrase To restate or summarize a source’s ideas in one’s own words.

  22. Tips for Using Testimony • Quote or paraphrase accurately • Use testimony from qualified sources • Use testimony from unbiased sources • Identify the people you quote or paraphrase

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