Public Speaking Chapter 6 - Researchng Your Topic

Primary Sources

Information that expresses an author’s original ideas or findings from original research.

Secondary Sources

Others’ interpretations or adaptations of a primary source.

Keywords

A term associated with a topic and used to search for information related to that topic.

digital literacy

The ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.

stop words

Commonly-used words such as pronouns and prepositions that search engines will ignore.

metasearch engines

A search tool that compiles the results from other search engines.

search engines

A sophisticated software program that hunts through documents to find those associated with specified keywords.

web directories

An online list that organizes webpages and websites hierarchically by category; also called a search index.

call number

The number assigned to each book or bound publication in a library to identify that book in the library’s classification system.

copyright information

A statement about the legal rights of others to use an original work, such as a song (lyrics and melody), story, poem, photograph, or image.

interview guide

A list of all the questions and possible probes an interviewer asks in an interview, as well as notes about how the interviewer will begin and end the interview.

Plagarism

Presenting someone else’s ideas and work, such as speeches, papers, and images, as your own.

copyright

A type of intellectual property law that protects an author’s original work (such as a play, book, song, or movie) from being used by others.

Fair Use

Using someone else’s original work in a way that does not infringe on the owner’s rights, generally for educational purposes, literary criticism, and news reporting.

Oral Citations

A source of information that a speaker mentions, or cites, during a speech

bibliographic information

A source’s complete citation, including author, date of publication, title, place of publication, and publisher.