Speech Quiz #2

Information

Data that is understandable and will help audience become knowledgable when viewed critically

Propaganda

Info represented in such away to provoke a desired response

Misinformation

Not true, urban legend

Disinformation

Deliberate falsification of information

Evalutating Web Sources Must

Use the most authoritative sites

Evaluate authorshp and sponsorshp

Credit its’ own source

Evaluating internet source for

Accuracy

Responsibility

Impartiality

Currency

Commercial website

.com

Non-profit

.org

Educational website

.edu

Books

Considered extremely reliable

Contain a large amount of detailed info

Have bibliographies or source notes

Often contain quotable passages

Newspapers

Published daily, weekly, or biweekly

Can be local, national, or international

Current and reliable

Rarely cite references and background info

Magazines

Contain a range of articles often related to a particular

Find facts, statistics, and examples

Support current events or topics

Newsletter

Regularly distributed mini-publications by clubs, churches, societies, associations, businesses, and government agencies

Journals

Academic and professional publications

High credibility

Written in formal styles

Visual Aid Functions

Helps listeners process and retain info

Promote interest

We remember about ____ of info we see and hear

70%

Prop

inanimate or live object

Model

three-dimensional, scale size representation

Line Graph

represent trends time

Bar graph

compare individual points of information

Pie graph

shows proportion

Pictogram

comparisons in picture form

Flowchart

a visual diagram that maps out a workflow, process, or algorithm

Diagram

shows how something work

Table

large amounts of information

Multimedia

audio clip, video clip, etc

Design Simplicity

Should reinforce, supprt, or summarize

Eight by eight rule

no more than eight words in a line and eight lines on a slide

Design Check list

Few words as possible

Key phrases instead of sentences

Concise titles

Design consistency

Typeface

Nothing smaller than 18 points on screen

No ornate types

Suit the message

36 for major, 24 for subheads, 18 for text

No more than 2 typefaces per slide

No all caps or all lower

Yellow, orange, and red rank

high in visibility

Softer colors

de-emphasize

Blues, greens, and neutral colors

for background

No more than ___ colors in a graphic

4

What to say to cite a website orally

Name of website

Date of access

What to say to cite a book orally

Tittle of book

Author

What to say to cite a journal or peridoical orally

title of journal or peridoical

Title of journal article

Date of publication

Pagee number and URLs

Never orally state page numbers

Only give name of website

People won’t remember these details