Research and Informative Speech Journal

Description

Instructions

Watch the following two videos. The first is “3 Ways to Spot a Bad Statistic” the second is an Informative Speech.

Once you are done answer the following questions in a journal entry. Make sure to label at the top which video you are speaking about.

3 Ways to Spot a Bad Statistic

1. What are the 3 ways to spot a bad statistic? Please, explain and give an example of your own for each.
2. What did you find most interesting about this TedTalk?
3. Have you ever fallen for a bad stat? If so what?

Informative Speech

Just watch through the first speech from Kathrine.

1. What are your overall feelings about the speech? Answer in 1 -2 paragraphs.
2. How many sources did you hear? What year was a majority of their sources from?
3. What do you believe they did well?
4. What do you believe they could have done better?
5. Any last comments?

Please, reply thoughtfully and use complete sentences.

Follow the class format for turning in an assignment.