Mary started her speech advocating that people get help for misophonia by explaining that she had suffered from it for years, which had encouraged her to do some additional research on its causes. She wove that research into the speech, making sure to mention that it came from high- quality sources. Mary was doing these things to ______.

Using geometric shapes to sketch how all the main ideas, subpoints, and supporting material of a speech relateto the central idea and to one another is a technique known as

a. mapping. b. previewing. c. flagging. d. piggybacking.

When HBO first went on the air in 1975, the broadcast networks made which of the following responses?

A. They largely ignored it. B. They saw it as a threat and worked to get it banned. C. They saw it as a great opportunity and partnered with it to produce programming. D. They used its creation as an excuse to invest in new, innovative programming.