Answers to In-Text Questions

  1. Get audience’s attention, thesis statement, demonstrate importance and credibility, and preview of main points.

  2. coherence; fidelity

  3. chronological

  4. Providing information by location or physical relationship.

  5. call to action

  6. rhetorical

  7. An in-text citation provides a brief mention of the source material next to the information used in the outline. It is important because it gives credit to the source of the material.

  8. nonverbal

  9. signpost