1. It is important to have critical thinking skills as a speaker because they allow people to decide what to believe or what to do. Public speaking exercises eight critical thinking skills. Critical thinking allows someone to focus, which will help them define a problem, set goals, and select information. Another skill is information gathering which helps formulate questions and collect data. Memory abilities allow an individual to store information in long-term memory and retrieve it. Organizing information allows someone to understand a topic and present it more effectively. Analyzing a topic will help clarify existing information by examining parts and relationships, while generation helps use prior knowledge to infer and elaborate new information and ideas. Integration allows a person to summarize, combine, and restructure information. The final skill that comes from a critical thinking process is evaluation, which establishes criteria and evaluates the quality of ideas. As a critical thinker, it is also important to be receptive to what others have to say by being open and unbiased. These listed skills of a critical thinker are beneficial in making a student a much stronger speaker.3. Criticizing a speech involves criticism that offers feedback with the goal of improving the speaker's speech. When criticizing an individual, it is good to start with a positive statement, because public speaking is a personal experience and establishing a healthy environment is important for constructive criticism. After that, one wants to target a few key areas for improvement, as an individual does not want to overwhelm her, but simply allow her to set manageable goals for the next step...... middle of paper. ....possible that the sources are expert and also biased because an expert does not mean they are not human. Everyone has an opinion, and some experts who have worked on a particular project or are sponsored by a company will attempt to distort the facts or simply use the facts that support their conclusions. Biased experts will not offer data that conflicts with what they are trying to prove. An example of this would be a Gallup study sponsored by Motorola. The study found that people who use cell phones perform better in business than those who don't. Another example shows that a Gallup poll sponsored by the zinc industry found that 62 percent of Americans want to keep their penny. Now an individual can see the difference between an expert source and an unbiased source and even if someone is an expert the source may also be biased..