Thursday, September 10, 2009
Concept: Evaluating Your Research Materials
Chapter six is mainly about researching for our speech topics. The things that we accumulate from researching our topic must be evaluated before we can even put it into our speeches. From all our sources, we have to see if their is consistency and credibility in our resources from a particular source. We have to see if it's consistent in other sources as well. Also, it is important and beneficial to have our sources to be current to now. People can relate and will be informed as well. What I found useful was the "critical questions for evaluation information" because it will help our speeches to determine how reliable, valid, and current the information we are gathering to be. Not having our information correct for our speeches would totally create a horrible speech with false information and the validity of our sources would be totally wrong. The research we find for our speeches is the playmaker for our speeches. In order for our speeches to "perform", the playmaker must write up a "script" that we can incorporate into our speeches.
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It’s very true that having invalid information in a speech is horrible. Sometimes I get frustrated when researching a topic and I find two sources of information that are said to be true but they are completely opposite. Finding out when they were written and who wrote them are great ways to see which is probably more valid. I think that your view of research being a playmaker is very interesting. I do notice that sometimes people are great speakers but have uninteresting information in their speeches and it makes a big difference. Instead of the speaker being the playmaker, it makes a lot more sense for the research to be.
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