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7. Skill Builder

Practice your evaluative listening skills by following these steps:

a. Listen to a short persuasive presentation. Identify what the speaker is asking the listeners to believe or do. 77 b. Evaluate the speaker’s evidence by answering the following questions: 1. Does the speaker support the claim with evidence? 2. Does the speaker cite references for the evidence? 3. How accurate is the evidence? Explain. 4. Does the speaker represent opposing evidence fairly? c. Identify at least two emotional appeals used by the speaker. 1. Do any of the emotional appeals obscure important logical considerations? 2. Do the emotional appeals stretch the truth? Why or why not? d. Based on this analysis, do you believe the speaker’s argument is trustworthy? For further review, go to the LearnSmart study module for this chapter. 187 references 1. Covey. S. (1989). The seven habits of highly effective people. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.