Homework: Locating Supporting Materials
Instructions: Go to the American Rhetoric website (americanrhetoric.com) and choose a speech from the Speech Bank. After checking out the speech, answer the following questions.
Task:
i. What speech did you choose? List the speaker, title, location, and date of the speech.
ii. List each type of supporting material-narratives, examples, definitions, testimony, facts and statistics-and indicate whether or not the speaker used that time. Give an example of each type of supporting material the speaker used.
iii. How effective were the supporting materials the speaker uses? Explain your answer.
iv. How did the supporting materials help the speaker achieve her or his specific purpose?
v. What have you learned about supporting materials that you'll apply to your speeches in the future?
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.