Discussion Board Post - Read the speech example from the textbook below.   Then answer the questions in blood at the bottom. 

 

"As a veterinarian and owner of a small-animal practice, you work closely with your local humane society to help control a growing population of unwanted dogs and cats.  You and your staff devote many hours annually in free and reduced-cost medial service to animals adopted from the society.  Now you have been asked to speak to the city council in support of legislation proposed by the society for stronger enforcement of animal licensing and leash laws.

 

In your speech, you plan to include statistics that (1) compare estimates of the city's dog population with the number of licenses issued during the past five years and (2) show the small number of citations given by local law enforcement for unleashed pets during the same period of time.  Knowing from your college public speaking class how valuable visual aids can be in presenting statistics, you decide to illustrate one set of statistics with a chart and the other with a graph."

 

For which set of statistics will a chart be more appropriate? 

For which set will a graph be more appropriate? 

Of the three kinds of graphs discussed in this chapter—bar line, pie—which will work best for your statistics and why?