An aid is allowed into a speech only if it survives three questions in order: what claim does it support, could a sentence do it faster, and can the audience look and listen at the same time. Here are eight aids somebody put in a seven-minute speech. Call each gate yourself, then compare your verdict to the one the test produces.
The deck — click an aid to put it on the bench
Pick an aid from the deckThen walk it through the three gates.
Gate 1 — which of the four jobs is this doing?
Gate 2 — could a well-built sentence do this job faster?
Gate 3 — while they look at it, can they also listen to you?
The bench
Nothing on the bench
Choose one of the eight aids and start with Gate 1.
What the deck weighs now
0 kept0 cut
0triaged
0/24gates called
0/8verdicts matched
Reading the test: an aid has to pass all three gates. Gate 1 is a hard filter — nothing rescues an aid that supports no claim. Gate 3 is the one students skip, and it is where the dosing table and the bulleted preview both die.