According to Your Textbook, Using Evidence in a Persuasive Speech

question 25

Multiple Choice

According to your textbook, using evidence in a persuasive speech can

• A) increase the speaker's credibility.
• B) inoculate listeners against counterpersuasion.
• C) compensate for fallacious reasoning.
• D) all of the above.
• E) a and b only.

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