COMM 130 Chapter 16: chapter 16 notes (comm 130)

• School: CSULB
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 130
• Professor: A Kolokotrones

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Any supplemental visible device a speaker can employ to help clarify for the audience the message of a speech: deciding whether to use visual aids i. Graphs: pictorial device used to illustrate quantitative relationships. Line graphs: diagram that shows the relationship b/w 2 quantitative variables-how one variable changes with respect to the other iii. Bar graphs: displays quantities or values of data in a series of bars that correspond in height or length to the quantities represented iv. Pie graphs: circle graphs or divided circles are used to show the division of something into component parts-percentages or proportions of the whole v. Tables: table is an orderly arrangement of numbers, words, or symbols in rows and columns vi. Charts: several different types of chars are commonly used as visual aids, word charts. In the form of words or short sentences: physical representations i.