Accomplished speakers always remember to include effective transitions in a speech

The textbook suggests you examine all of these concepts in order to critically evaluate Internet resources EXCEPT

A) quantity. B) sufficiency. C) fairness. D) currency.

While Brian, a renowned political science professor at Harvard, speaks he has a nervous habit of saying um at the end of each sentence. When his audience rated him after a recent presentation he gave to a group of CPAs about the benefits of reforming the tax system they noted that he lacked credibility. What might explain their assessment?

a. most of his audience had not attended Harvard b. his audience has a different career than the speaker and therefore feel dissimilar c. his audience did not agree with his position d. he used too many vocal nonfluencies