{"id":104,"date":"2022-03-29T17:39:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T17:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.hcfl.edu\/speechcomm\/part\/researching-your-speech\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T21:20:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T21:20:33","slug":"researching-your-speech","status":"publish","type":"part","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.hcfl.edu\/speechcomm\/part\/researching-your-speech\/","title":{"raw":"Chapter 6: Researching Your Speech","rendered":"Chapter 6: Researching Your Speech"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"textbox textbox--learning-objectives\"><header class=\"textbox__header\">\r\n<h2 class=\"textbox__title\">Learning Objectives<\/h2>\r\n<\/header>\r\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Learn that research is not only useful, but fun.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Describe how to establish research needs before beginning research.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Identify appropriate scholarly and popular sources.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Differentiate between primary and secondary research.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Understand how to incorporate sources within a speech and how to use sources ethically.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Differentiate between direct quotations and paraphrases of information within a speech.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Explain twelve strategies for avoiding plagiarism.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"textbox textbox--learning-objectives\"><header class=\"textbox__header\">\r\n<h2 class=\"textbox__title\">Key Terms<\/h2>\r\n<\/header>\r\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"307\"]APA style[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"581\"]CRAAP Method[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"583\"]Databases[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"415\"]Direct Quotation[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"585\"]\u201cDrive-by\u201d Quoting[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"559\"]Encyclopedias[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"561\"]General-Interest Periodicals[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"605\"]Headings[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"563\"]Interlibrary Loan[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"603\"]Journals[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"601\"]Keywords[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"565\"]MLA style[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"567\"]Paraphrase[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"587\"]Peer-reviewed Sources[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"599\"]Popular Sources[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"569\"]Primary Research[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"597\"]Representative Sample[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"571\"]Research[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"573\"]Research Log[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"589\"]Scholarly Sources[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"575\"]Secondary Research[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"577\"]Special-Interest Periodicals[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"595\"]Subheadings[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"579\"]Summary[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"591\"]Topic Sentence[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pb_glossary id=\"593\"]World Wide Web[\/pb_glossary]<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<div class=\"textbox textbox--learning-objectives\">\n<header class=\"textbox__header\">\n<h2 class=\"textbox__title\">Learning Objectives<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Learn that research is not only useful, but fun.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Describe how to establish research needs before beginning research.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Identify appropriate scholarly and popular sources.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Differentiate between primary and secondary research.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Understand how to incorporate sources within a speech and how to use sources ethically.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Differentiate between direct quotations and paraphrases of information within a speech.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Explain twelve strategies for avoiding plagiarism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"textbox textbox--learning-objectives\">\n<header class=\"textbox__header\">\n<h2 class=\"textbox__title\">Key Terms<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-307\">APA style<\/button><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-581\">CRAAP Method<\/button><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-583\">Databases<\/button><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-415\">Direct Quotation<\/button><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-585\">\u201cDrive-by\u201d Quoting<\/button><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-559\">Encyclopedias<\/button><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-561\">General-Interest Periodicals<\/button><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-605\">Headings<\/button><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-563\">Interlibrary Loan<\/button><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-603\">Journals<\/button><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-601\">Keywords<\/button><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-565\">MLA style<\/button><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-567\">Paraphrase<\/button><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-587\">Peer-reviewed Sources<\/button><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-599\">Popular Sources<\/button><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-569\">Primary Research<\/button><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-597\">Representative Sample<\/button><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-571\">Research<\/button><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-573\">Research Log<\/button><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-589\">Scholarly Sources<\/button><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-575\">Secondary Research<\/button><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-577\">Special-Interest Periodicals<\/button><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-595\">Subheadings<\/button><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-579\">Summary<\/button><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-591\">Topic Sentence<\/button><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"104-593\">World Wide Web<\/button><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"glossary\"><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-307\" hidden><p>style scholars in the various social science fields (e.g., psychology, human communication, business) are more likely to use<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-581\" hidden><p>CRAAP stands for \u201ccurrency,\u201d \u201crelevance,\u201d \u201cauthority,\u201d \u201caccuracy,\u201d and \u201cpurpose,\u201d or the five ways that you should evaluate each source to determine if it represents the best information available at the time<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-583\" hidden><p>an online searchable collection of information<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-415\" hidden><p>when you cite the actual words from a source with no changes<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-585\" hidden><p>a practice that disorients your audience by not giving them everything they need to understand how the source is relevant to your own claims<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-559\" hidden><p>information sources that provide short, very general information about a topic and are available in both print and electronic formats<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-561\" hidden><p>magazines and newsletters published on a fairly systematic basis<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-605\" hidden><p>a title at the head of a page or section of a book<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-563\" hidden><p>a process where librarians are able to search other libraries to locate the book a researcher is trying to find<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-603\" hidden><p>a scholarly publication containing articles written by researchers, professors and other experts<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-601\" hidden><p>a word or concept of great significance<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-565\" hidden><p>the style scholars in the various humanities fields (e.g., English, philosophy, rhetoric) are more likely to use<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-567\" hidden><p>to take a source\u2019s basic idea and condense it using your own words<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-587\" hidden><p>an article that has been reviewed by a group of experts in the field, sometimes called a board of editors<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-599\" hidden><p>(also called non-scholarly) sources inform and entertain the public or allow practitioners to share industry, practice, and production information<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-569\" hidden><p>carried out to discover or revise facts, theories, and applications and is reported by the person conducting the research<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-597\" hidden><p>a group or set chosen from a larger statistical population or group of factors or instances that adequately replicates the larger group according to whatever characteristic or quality is under study<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-571\" hidden><p>scholarly investigation into a topic in order to discover, revise, or report facts, theories, and applications<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-573\" hidden><p>step-by-step account of the process of identifying, obtaining, and evaluating sources for a specific project, similar to a lab note-book in an experimental setting<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-589\" hidden><p>are written by experts in their field, usually professors in a specific discipline<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-575\" hidden><p>research carried out to discover or revise facts, theories, and applications\u2014similar to primary research\u2014but it is reported by someone not involved in conducting the actual research<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-577\" hidden><p>magazines and newsletters that are published for a narrower audience<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-595\" hidden><p>a heading given to a subsection of a piece of writing<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-579\" hidden><p>clear sentence that restates the preview statement in past tense, outlining the main points that were addressed in the speech<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-591\" hidden><p>The first sentence of each paragraph is the topic sentence, which is basically a paragraph\u2019s thesis statement: well-written topic sentences tell the reader what the entire paragraph is about.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"104-593\" hidden><p>an interconnected system of public webpages accessible through the 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