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3. Find an example of a bar chart, a pie chart, a line graph, and a map in USA
Today or your local newspaper, and describe whether each one would make
a suitable visual for a speech. Evaluate them in terms of simplicity, size and
visibility, layout, and color.
4. Contact the computer center at your college or university. What, if any, ser-
vices are available to help you prepare computer graphics for your speeches?
If you own or have access to a computer, go to a computer dealer or consult a
software catalog and fi nd at least three presentation graphics programs avail-
able for your computer.
5. Consider the following speech situations: an informative speech on the
impressionist movement in art; an informative speech on a country you have
visited; a persuasive speech about health insurance in the United States; a
speech to entertain on the topic of traveling by train, plane, or automobile.
What types of visual aid would be most appropriate for each speech situa-
tion, and why?

Notes

1. This section is based on William Earnest, PowerPoint™: The Rules of Design
(CD-ROM) McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2000.
2. Joe Downing and Cecile C. Garmon, “Teaching Students in the Basic
Course How to Use Presentational Software,” Communication Education 50
(2001): 218–29.

3. Several of these suggestions are taken from Minnesota Western, Visual Pre-
sentation Systems (Oakland, Calif.: Minnesota Western, 1988–1989).

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