The list of all books, periodicals and other resources owned by the library.
What is the library catalogue?
100
The key sources for finding materials on the internet.
What are search engines?
100
A complete list of each work you find on your topic, even though you don’t know if you will use it in your speech. It will likely include 15-20 works.
What is a Preliminary Bibliography?
100
An imaginary story that makes a general point.
What is a hypothetical example?
100
A statistical measure which corresponds to what is popularly called "the average" determined by summing all items and dividing by the number of items.
What is the “mean”?
200
Three main examples of this are USA.gov, the Statistical Abstract at cencus.gov, and the World Factbook at cia.gov.
What are Government Resources?
200
Using quotation marks around your topic and plus signs
What are methods to narrow your search when using a search engine?
200
The number one mistake students make when faced with a research project.
What is “Procrastination” or waiting too long to begin?
200
It is a valuable addition for building credibility when you are not an expert on your topic.
What is the main value of using Expert Testimony?
200
Determining if they are reliable, measured correctly and representative.
What are tests for evaluating statistics?
300
Works that contain brief life and career facts about contemporary men and women, for example Who’s Who publications
What are Biographical Aids?
300
Resources that make it easier to find reliable, high quality web resources, unlike search engines which don’t evaluate the quality of resources they retrieve.
What are Virtual Libraries?
300
Take plenty, use a consistent format, make a separate entry for each note, and be sure to distinguish between direct quotes, paraphrases and your own ideas.
What are tips for tips for taking notes efficiently?
300
Narratives, illustrations or anecdotes, with vivid or dramatic details that can pull listeners into a speech
What are extended examples?
300
A valuable way to save time and make your statistics much easier to understand- especially when demonstrating a statistical trend (i.e. declining power of the U.S. dollar or increasing loan debt of college students).
What is using a visual aid with statistics?
400
A source to find expert research across different academic disciplines.
What are Academic Databases?
400
Determining the author and/or sponsoring organization and their expertise and objectivity, and the date of the information
What are the tests for evaluating internet documents?
400
Knowing your purpose, the person, and your specific questions (which are intelligent and meaningful and are not leading or loaded)
How should you prepare BEFORE an interview?
400
Opinions of people like us, not prominent figures but ordinary citizens who have first hand experience on the topic.
What is Peer Testimony?
400
Examples: Mt Kilimanjaro is 19,341 ft; world land speed record is 763.065 mph; population of Libya is 6,461,454 people; moon is 238,855 miles from earth.
What are examples of when statistics should be rounded off?
500
A reference source with more than 25,000 quotations from historical and contemporary figures.
What is Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations?
500
Your one-stop shop for all US Government information with more than 250 million web pages from federal, state, local and tribal governments.
Lists the subject, an abbreviated author and title, and your specific note or direct quote
What should be included on the SEPARATE Research Note you create for each piece of information you may use?
500
Use them to clarify, reinforce, personalize and to add vivid texture to your speech.
What are tips for using examples?
500
Example: “McDonald's has sold over 100 billion hamburgers. To give you an idea how many hamburgers that is, stacked on top of each other they would reach over 3 million miles—fifteen times as far as the moon.”
What is an example of explaining or clarifying statistics?