COMM 131 Lecture 3: Notes Part 3
4 Oct 2015
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Examples: or an illustration is an extended instance that illustrates a general principle: use examples to remind others of their own experience, examples must have the characteristics of a good story, the more detailed an example the better is works to support your claim. : are numerical compacting of an argument: raw numbers interpretation. present numerical data to readers without much, measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode) report proportions, averages, and frequencies, statistical probability (p) is used to express the frequency with which events occur by pure chance, or the likelihood that something exceeds pure chance, to critically analyze the scale of visual date: determine the scale being used in graphs/charts & examine the categories on both the. Testimony: used to support the claim: testimony of fact provides examples or stats that may be seen as stronger than only testimony of opinion, testimony of opinion expresses examples or anecdotes that are weaker than testimony of fact.
