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Research
Parts of Your Speech
Patterns
Support
100
A website on which one can search for other websites containing information on a specified topic.
What is a General Search Engine?
100
A method of collecting data by asking people directly about their experiences.
What is Survey?
100
A declaration of the specific goal for a speech.
What is a Purpose Statement?
100
A pattern of organizing the main points of a speech to represent different categories.
What is Topic Pattern?
100
A structured set of all the points and subpoints in a speech.
What is a Formal Outline?
200
A statement that briefly reminds listeners of points a speaker has already made.
What is Summary?
200
A written instrument containing questions for people to answer.
What is Questionnaire?
200
A one-sentence version of the message in a speech.
What is a Thesis Statement?
200
A pattern of organizing the main points of a speech in chronological order.
What is Time Pattern?
200
An abbreviated version of a formal speech outline.
What are Speaking Notes?
300
A rule of speech organization specifying that all points and sub points in an outline should have the same grammatical structure.
What is Rule of Parallel Wording?
300
A structured conversation in which one person poses questions to which another person answers.
What is an Interview?
300
A statement expressing a specific idea or theme related to the speech topic.
What is a Main Point?
300
A pattern of organizing the main points of a speech according to areas.
What is Space Pattern?
300
A statement giving credit for the words to their original source.
What is Verbal Footnote?
400
Carefully considering the characteristics of one's listeners when preparing a speech.
What is Audience Analysis?
400
An electronic storehouse of specific information that people can search.
What is a Database?
400
A statement that connects one point in a speech to the next.
What is Transition?
400
A pattern of organizing the main points of a speech so that they describe the causes of an event and then identify its consequences.
What is Cause-and-Effect Pattern?
400
Knowingly using information from another source without giving proper credit to that source.
What is Plagiarism?
500
Single words and phrases that distinguish one point in a presentation from another and help listeners follow the speaker's "path."
What is Signposts?
500
A website on which one can search for research published in books, academic journals, and other periodicals.
What is a Research Search Engine?
500
A statement alerting listeners that a speaker is about to shift to a new topic.
What is Preview?
500
A pattern of organizing the main points of a speech so that they describe a problem and then offer solutions for it.
What is Problem-Solution Pattern?
500
A list of the sources used in preparing a speech.
What is a Bibliography?