5. 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.

b. Evaluate the speaker’s evidence by answering the following questions.

1. Does the speaker support the claim with e vidence?

2. Does the speaker cite references for the e vidence?

3. How accurate is the evidence? Explain.

4. Does the speaker represent opposing evidence f airly?

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? W hy o r w hy n ot?

d. Based on this analysis, do you believe the speaker’s a rgument i s t rustworthy?