"To persuade my audience to volunteer regularly in their community and to join the Peace Corps after college" is a poorly phrased specific purpose statement for a classroom speech because it

According to the textbook, you can make your list of main points shorter and more meaningful in all of the following ways EXCEPT by

A) eliminating those points that seem least important to your thesis. B) selecting points that are most relevant to or that interest your audience. C) wording each of your main points in a different style. D) combining those points that have a common focus.

Orally citing author, qualification, publication, and date when using outside evidence is ______.

a. cumbersome b. unnecessary c. important d. diversionary