A preliminary outline is an all-inclusive presentation framework that follows established outlining rules

During the middle of a speech, an audience member stands up and asks a question, to everyone's surprise. According to your text, is the audience member's behavior appropriate?

a. Yes; question and answer sessions are quite common in public speaking. b. No; the audience member should have remained seated to ask his/her question. c. No; the audience member did not maintain clearly defined roles of speaker and listener. d. Yes; in this day and age of informality, speakers should expect audiences to respond out loud.

Jesse argues in his speech that drug use really is not a problem among teens because hardly anyone he knows has even tried drugs. Jesse uses his friends as examples, but this reasoning by example fails because the examples are __________.

A. not representative B. analogous C. hypothetical D. not factual