Facts and Statistics.

Facts and Statistics are highly affective in speeches to let our audience understand what we're getting at. Informative and Persuasive speeches are great to have facts and statistics in your speech. I find them most effective in a speech where if a person was to talk about a specific topic, let's say, health care, that requires a lot of facts to back up your arguments on how we can fix health care and how people are handling it in our country. Statistics comes in when we find research on how people are affected by health care and what's happening because of it. It is very affective in a persuasive speech because you're trying to prove your argument against someone and not having any facts or statistics would make your audience believe that you have nothing to back up what you're trying to say. In the first speech we did in class, statistics wasn't important because we were only informing people about our cultural artifacts and it didn't require too much facts or statistics on how many people use it or things like that. In our last two speeches, facts and statistics are going to be our number one factor in order for us to perform a well prepared, well researched speech or people will just assume that we made all this up and that we're plagiarizing.