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Examples of Good
Credibility Statements
Students of Mr. Stone's
Public Speaking Class
STUDENT 1: In my undergraduate
years at OU I had
the opportunity to do research
in the DNA cloning technology
which is actually just on
another small-scale cloning.
Human could be on a much larger
scale and I did some research on
to find out why human cloning
is, has a lot more
serious outcomes.
STUDENT 2: If we spay and
neuter our pets, being
a pet owner myself, it breaks
my heart to see, you know,
pets lying on the side of the
road, you know, being run over,
things like that so I am a
very big supporter of having
your pets spayed and neutered.
STUDENT 3: I have had an
interest in this for a long time
down on Reno is where the
police forces are, one of
the professor was kind enough
to give me pretty much
a whole library of books written
by a lot of experts on this and
hopefully one day I might get
to, if I get to work for the FBI
this would be something that I
would be very interested to do.
Notice the student references
past course work and
current research.
STUDENT 4: I have been
interested in the working of
the human mind ever since taking
a human anatomy class in
high school and since then
I have seen documentaries and
read books about the phenomena
that the brain can produce.
Notice the student references
work connections and specifies
a period of time.
STUDENT 5: I worked for
Kohl's for about 2 years now.
I had the opportunity to start
from the store when
it first opened, I worked in
the northern one, and so
I have just been able to see...