1. to gather information about people in your audience, you can use a
a. survey
b. pop quiz
c. setting
d. test
2. a musician who gives a speech and draws on her experience as a pianist is using as a form of evidence.
a. primary research
b. secondary research
c. interviewing
d. personal knowledge
3. to evaluate the sources you use in your speech, you can use the tests all of the following except?
a. authority.
b. currency.
c. popularity.
d. objectivity.
4. books, articles, and newspapers are examples of
a. secondary research
b. primary research
c. observation
d. personal knowledge
5. sources that report factual information that can be counted on to be true are known as
a. ethnographic
b. valid
c. relevant
d. abstract
6. the act of taking the words of others and representing them falsely as your own is called
a. comparison
b. contrast
c. plagiarism
d. scholarship
7. brainstorming and concept mapping are ways of
a. generating topic ideas
b. competing with group members
c. none of these
d. outlining a speech
8. after robert identifies the major subject of his speech, he should narrow it down to a specific
a. summary
b. topic
c. idea
d. theme
9. to evaluate the expertise of the author of one of the articles dana is using for her speech, she would use the test of
a. currency
b. authority
c. popularity
d. objectivity
10. while conducting research for his presentation, daniel believes the source he is reading is overly biased. he evaluates this source using the test of
a. authority
b. currency
c. objectivity
d. popularity