3). Pick one concept from the reading this week and discuss it in detail.
3- Speakers commonly use Testimonies to support points. Using this technique will only be impactful if the audience believes in the source’s credibility. There are multiple types of testimonies a speaker can present: expert, celebrity, lay. Expert testimony will only be effective if the group or individual’s qualifications relate to the topic of speech. For example, Shen Tong uses a testimony from civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. to support his viewpoint on meeting oppression with nonviolence. In contrast, celebrity testimony is not found credible based on knowledge of topic however; it becomes compelling based on the person’s fame or state power. For example, actors who play a particular role in a film portraying a character with a disability will be able to attract an audience not because of there knowledge, but fame. Finally, lay testimony is common among journalists when reporting on human-interest stories. This is due to the fact that lay testimonials are not considered experts, but individuals who have had experience on the topic.
Your information on testimonials shows that the book doesn’t particularly like them. But what if those testimonials are facts that the person has done research on or are something that person was a witness to. I think testimonials are more likely to be real because the person actually went through a time in their life that offers real life recollection and recalling should be the best example. But you and someone else go through the type of experience and have totally different outcomes. Consequently, testimonials are still personal opinions no matter what. Each person will take that experience and make it their own give their own recollection of what happened to them.
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