The opinion or judgement of an expert, a professional in his or her field.
What is expert testimony?
100
A powerful form of communication that includes a speaker who has a reason for speaking
What is public speaking?
100
A program that indexes Web content and searches all over the Web for documents containing specific keywords that the researcher has chosen.
What is search engine?
100
A speech intended to inform an auidence
What is an informative speech?
200
The process of thinking creatively, amassing information, and considering problems and solutions related to your topic.
What is brainstorming.
200
The opinion of a non-expert who has personal experience or witnessed an event related to your topic.
What is lay testimony?
200
Sameness, as applied to a public speaker and his or her audience
What is homogeny?
200
A search engine that scans multiple search engines simultaneously.
What is a metasearch engine?
200
A speech that is intended to persuade an audience.
What is a persuasive speech?
300
A technique for identifying potential speech topics. It begins with a core idea and branches out to other ideas and topics.
What is clustering?
300
Brief, personal stories that have a point that have point or punch line.
What is an anecdote?
300
A highly systematic process of getting to know one's listeners relative to the topic and speech occasion.
What is audience analysis?
300
The quality, authority, and reliability of a source of information
What is credibility?
300
Uses the principles of both informative and persuasive speaking for special occasions.
What is a special-occasion speech?
400
This expresses both the topic and the general speech purpose in action form and in terms of specific objectives you hope to achieve with your presentation.
What is specific purpose statement?
400
This carries a lot of weight with audiences, particularly if your topic is related to medicine, health, media, or the environment.
What is scientific research findings?
400
A type of secondary resource that is created and maintained by people rather than automatically by computers; guides visitors to the main page of a Web site organized within in a wider subject category.
What is a directory?
400
The crime of presenting someone else's words, ideas, or intellectual property as one's own, intentionally or unintentionally
What is plagiarism?
500
A statement that conveys the central idea or core assumption about your topic.
What is thesis statement?
500
Information provided in numerical form.
What is Statistics?
500
A collection of databases and information sites arranged by subject, generally reviewed and recommended by experts (usually librarians).
What is library gateways?
500
A list of resources the speaker has consulted, to which he or she can refer on note cards.