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Case: Respond to your classmates as to what they have written. Look for, and comment on, differences and similarities from your own connections and extensions of the content in this video.

To hook her audience, Ms. Tami Seeger uses testimony quotes and ties them to reports in order to set a base for her points. Chapter Seven of "Stand Up, Speak Out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking" reveals that reporting is the last part of research. As stated directly, "This is the phase when you accumulate information about a topic and report that information to others." As she continues, direct citation, with dates, to a documentary is included as she establishes her credibility with specific information that comes from concrete sources. The speaker also ties statistical citations to her information with the inclusion of websites that give a direct source which continues to build her credibility.

Ms. Seeger elevates her speech by maintaining the engagement of the audience through the use of nonverbal communication. This includes body movements, facial expressions, eye contact, and visual aid. The speaker utilizes hand movements for emphasis and walks through the stage while maintaining eye contact with her audience. Her facial expressions keep the audience's attention as it provides a dynamic and interesting delivery of her information. Body language plays a large role in the delivery of her speech as it also conveys her confidence in the information being presented.

An important element Ms. Tami Seeger included was the use of a meter on a poster board as a visual aid. It allowed the audience to see how doctors decided which gender to assign a child based on how easy it would be. This provided a direct image for the audience to better understand the information being explained as she described the way the meter was used. Following the graph, Ms. Seeger connected the graph to the next point being made and added an element that required the audience to remain engaged.