4.  With a similar topic follow time reversed.

5.  With a similar topic use comparison only.

6.  Follow an arrangement based on contrast only.

7.  In explaining a topic combine comparison and contrast.

8.  Explain some proverb, text, or quotation.  The class should discuss the arrangement.

9.  Choose some law or government regulation.  Condemn or approve it in an explanation based on cause to effect.

10.  With the same or a similar topic use effect to cause.

11.  Explain to the class the plan of some large building or group of buildings.  Is your explanation easily understood?

12.  Explain why a certain study fits one for a particular vocation.  Use the order of importance.

13.  Give an idea of two different magazines, using comparison and contrast.

14.  Explain some game.  Time order?

15.  How is a jury trial conducted?

16.  Explain the principles of some political party.

17.  Speak for four minutes upon exercise in a gymnasium.

18.  Tell how a school paper, or daily newspaper, or magazine is conducted.

19.  What is slang?

20.  Explain one of your hobbies.

21.  Classify and explain the qualities of a good speaker.  Order of importance?

22.  Explain some natural phenomenon.

23.  Explain the best method for studying.

24.  Contrast business methods.

25.  From some business (as stock selling) or industry (as automobile manufacturing) or new vocation (as airplaning) or art (as acting) or accomplishment (as cooking) choose a group of special terms and explain them in a connected series of remarks.

26.  Why is superstition so prevalent?  The class should discuss the explanations presented.

27.  “The point that always perplexes me is this:  I always feel that if all the wealth was shared out, it would be all the same again in a few years’ time.  No one has ever explained to me how you can get over that.”  Explain clearly one of the two views suggested here.

28.  Explain the failure of some political movement, or the defeat of some nation.

29.  Select a passage from some book, report, or article, couched in intricate technical or specialized phraseology.  Explain it clearly to the class.

30.  Ben Jonson, a friend of Shakespeare’s, wrote of him, “He was not of an age, but for all time.”  What did he mean?

CHAPTER X

PROVING AND PERSUADING