Creating Your Research Plan
Evaluating Credibility
Types of Research Information
Searching the Web
100
A strategy for finding and keeping track of information to use in your speech.
What is Research Plan?
100
Research source that allows the broadest range of credible sources.
What is Libraries?
100
Documents related to government activities, laws, or regulations.
What is Government Document?
100
Specialized programs that continually visit Web pages and index what they find.
What are search engines
200
Words or terms related to your topic as well as synonyms of these words.
What is Keywords?
200
The more recent the evidence the more reliable it is compared to older evidence.
What is Recency?
200
Publications that appear at regular intervals.
What is Periodicals?
200
Searches several different search engines at once.
What are metasearch engines?
300
Information from credible research sources that you can use to support your research.
What is Evidence?
300
Showing no biased, prejudice, or partisanship that would prevent from making an impartial judgement on a speech.
What is Objectivity?
300
Focus on specific subject areas.
What is Specialized Periodical Indexes?
300
Consists of information that is available online but that can't be accessed by standard search engines.
What is the Invisible Web?
400
The perception of your audience that you are qualified to speak on a topic.
What is Credibility?
400
Being able to witness a situation for yourself.
What is Observational Capacity?
400
Articles approved by other experts in the field.
What is Peer Review?
400
Complied by human editors who review Web sites and index them into subject categories and subcategories.
What are Web Directories?
500
Information about the author of the evidence and where the evidence can be found.
What is Citation?
500
The possession of knowledge necessary to offer reliable facts or opinions about the topic.
What is Expertise?
500
Give background information on major topic areas.
What is Reference Works?
500
Combine directories and search engines in one.
What are Hybrid Search Engines?
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