We’ve gone over this time and time again, but let’s
emphasize the importance of being accurate with informative speaking. Whenever
one is about to educate or inform others (audience), they are
expected to be have information that is accurate. The supporting material,
statistics, facts, examples, all of this is to be carefully looked over. Now we’ve
gone over where to find all these types of evidence, but how are we supposed
to know if our facts are valid? Simply, the best way to do this is a little
process called “gatewatching”, this allows the speaker to not only analyze
data, but also monitor their sources in case if the information changes or has updates for
more information. Organizations such as news centers have used this technique
in order to create a more trustworthy media. For myself, I will be keeping
track of my facts just in case I need to remove or change any of my presentation.
You make a good point here. Especially in a speech like an informative or a demonstrative speech, the last thing you want to do is inform someone of the wrong thing or tell them how to do something completely incorrectly. Gatewatching can be very effective in order to avoid this. I think I will be doing this too, because it's important to make sure all of our facts are up to date all the way up until the moment we actually present our speeches to the class. And it is important to make sure we are accurate when we do this!
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