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Oral Communication · Chapter 8

The Main-Point Audit Bench

A student arrived with seven flat “main points” for a six-minute speech on alarm fatigue. Here are ten lines from that pile. Decide which are headline-sized, which are support, and which should be cut — then watch the four tests (weight, overlap, sufficiency, count) grade the set as you build it.

The thesis you are serving

“Alarm fatigue on this telemetry unit is a volume problem that produces desensitization, and two fixes already sitting in our monitors would close most of the gap.”
Speech length — drives the arithmetic
6 min

Ten lines from the pile

Rank every line — main point, support, or cut

Your body, as an audience would hear it

The four tests

0of 4 tests passing