What kinds of evidence (personal experience narratives or data, examples, details, or numerical data) are you using to develop your claim?

If you are using evidence from personal experience, how will you give authority, weight, and validity to this personal evidence?

If you are using numerical data, how will you make it clear, comprehensible, and meaningful? (For instance, in a speech arguing for more public support of the arts, Barbra Streisand asserts that the amount of money the government gives to the National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is equal to what the government spends for one F-22 fighter jet, and the government buys hundreds of those. This comparison drives home the point that the arts are undervalued and unsupported.)

Consider your audience, occasion, and purpose for this argument. Does your evidence fit this rhetorical context?

What is rhetorically effective or ineffective about your use of evidence?