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Chapter 6: Researching Your Speech
Learning Objectives
- Learn that research is not only useful, but fun.
- Describe how to establish research needs before beginning research.
- Identify appropriate scholarly and popular sources.
- Differentiate between primary and secondary research.
- Understand how to incorporate sources within a speech and how to use sources ethically.
- Differentiate between direct quotations and paraphrases of information within a speech.
- Explain twelve strategies for avoiding plagiarism.
Key Terms
- APA style
- CRAAP Method
- Databases
- Direct Quotation
- “Drive-by” Quoting
- Encyclopedias
- General-Interest Periodicals
- Headings
- Interlibrary Loan
- Journals
- Keywords
- MLA style
- Paraphrase
- Peer-reviewed Sources
- Popular Sources
- Primary Research
- Representative Sample
- Research
- Research Log
- Scholarly Sources
- Secondary Research
- Special-Interest Periodicals
- Subheadings
- Summary
- Topic Sentence
- World Wide Web
Annotate
Presenting and Public Speaking