Public Speaking Midterm: Chapter 7: Researching Your Speech – Flashcards

Researching your topic and providing strong evidence for your claims can make your presentation more interesting, increase your credibility as a speaker, and help you achieve your goals. Offers you 7 important benefits 1. Help you learn more about your topic before you select and develop main points 2. May discover new insights / determine some of your beliefs on topic may be incorrect 3. Enables you to gather evidence: information from credible sources that you can use yo support your claims. 4. Gain credibiltiy = your audience will consider you qualified to speak on topic in question

1. First decide on your research objectives. --- Make a list of the areas you need to research. If you have: ---limited knowledge on the topic do some general background research ---some knowledge, focus on specific aspects Look for information on all sides of your topic. 2. Find the sources you need places + people to help you 3. Keep track of your sources citations = useful to find info later

One that can reasonably trusted to be accurate and objective 1. Expertise: is possession of knowledge necessary to offer reliable facts or opinions about the topic in question. Source has education, experience, and a solid reputation in their field. 2. Objectivity: has no bias prejudice or partisanship that would prevent them from making an impartial judgement on your speech topic 3. Observational CApacity: Able to witness a situation for him or herself EX: person who experienced the effects of hurricane sandy is more credible than those who saw it on TV 4. Recency: timlieness. Newer evidence is more reliable then older evidence

1. Books 2. Periodicals: publication that appears at regular intervals EX: weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually. (articles subjected to peer review- an editor publics articles that are approved by other experts in the field). 3. General Periodical Indexes: list articles on wide variety of topics A. full text source: for each entry- a link to the complete text of the article in question B. Abstract: summary of articles contents 4. Specialized Periodical indexes: focus on specific subject area and available online 5. Newspapers: current information 6. Reference Work: compilation of background information on major topic areas. -Encyclopedias -Dictionaries -Quotation books: famous notable quotes -Atlases: provide maps charts and tables relating to different geographic regions -Yearbooks 7. Government Documents:

Internet allowyou convenient access to information on nearly any topic without leaving your desk. Offers speed= tracking news paper, reports, articles down. Puts immense volume of information at your finger tips.

1. Prepare for your interview: Determine your information needs based on the gaps in your library and Internet research. + Decide on useful interview subjects 2. Set up your interview: Contact interviewee in person rather than by phone or email. + Explain who you are and what purpose your interview will serve 3. Plan your Interview Questions: Focus on information that you cannot get from other sources. Ask open-ended questions. + Consider asking a "candid" question that the interviewee might like to avoid. 4. Conduct the interview: Start with friendly, easy-to-answer questions. + Stay focused, but be open to new information. Listen carefully and maintain eye contact. + Ask for permission to tape the interview. 5. Evaluate your Notes: Ensure that your notes are accurate by reviewing them immediately after the interview. + Contact the interviewee for clarification, if necessary.

1. Thoroughly document all of your sources: provide complete citation 2. Present evidence in claim-source-support order: begin by stating point you are making---fully cite your source, presenting the author---credentials--etc. 3. Quote or paraphrase the evidence Citing sources in speeches may feel awkward and distracting. This attitude advocates plagiarism. Consider: What can you do to make citations fit your sense of aesthetics? How is documenting Internet sources both similar to and different from documenting traditional sources?

VOCAB

cutting and pasting the citation into a Word file on computer based library indexes

person who witnesses situation for themselves EX: Hurricane Sandy survivor

link to text of full article in question

not full article BUT summary of article's contents

this is to reword evidence in a way that better supports your claim but misrepresents the source's point of view

evidence (stating in your own words rather than the word-for-word from your source).