University of Nevada, Las Vegas COM 101 Chapter 7 1)How do unsuccessful speakers make choices about supporting material? You want to know who on campus has the authority to raise student fees, so you look up the student government’s bylaws

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

COM 101

Chapter 7

1)How do unsuccessful speakers make choices about supporting material?

2. You want to know who on campus has the authority to raise student fees, so you look up the student government’s bylaws. What form of support have you consulted?
3. What form of support should you use to generalize beyond a few specific examples when the scope of the topic is vast?
4. How often should a speaker rely on personal experience as their only type of supporting material?
5. How should you use search engines in preparing your speech?
6. How should you supplement your use of search tools?
7. What should you do in advance to prepare for an interview?
8. What sources of information are more likely to be up-to-date?
9. What is the term for evidence that should be taken seriously and given weight by an audience?
10. If a site lacks the name of a sponsor, fails to identify experts, and cannot be checked for accuracy, what standard of quality does it fail?
11. How should you read your material?
12. When you first begin your research, what is your impression of the task likely to be?
13. What is the best thing to do when note taking?
14. What is true of your bibliographic citation system for your notes?
15. A system that makes it easy to sort and rearrange material to help organize a speech, locate materials you need, and discard those that you don’t, can be described as            .