Exam 11: Being Credible and Using Evidence

One of the important questions that you should ask about your own personal experience is whether or not it is typical.

What impact does being introduced by someone else have on source credibility?

Who conducted a survey and how they did so are both very important questions to ask of this kind of evidence.

Explain the differences between bibliographic references, internal references, and verbal citations.

Select a public figure and reveal how you think that person fares as a source on each of the four dimensions of source credibility.

Which of the following is NOT a criterion for evaluating sources of information?

The sleeper effect refers to the speech

Audience members' perception of a topic's importance can influence how they perceive your credibility as a speaker.

Identify and define the eight types of supporting materials.

The definition of dynamism is that the speaker is perceived as

Explain how to set up and implement an interview with a human source for your speech.

Comparing things that are otherwise dissimilar is known as an example.

Discuss reasons and techniques for using narratives as supporting materials in your speech.

Which of the following is NOT a research-based finding about source credibility?

Inappropriate conduct for interviewing a source for your speech would include

The only chance you have to affect your credibility is your behavior during your speech.

What are some questions to ask of a survey before using it as supporting material for your speech?

A verbal citation contains everything that is included in a written footnote except that it is stated in the speech instead of written.

The so-called sleeper effect means that your speech suffers from "mid-speech sag" and therefore invites your audience to doze.

Incremental plagiarism is the intentional or unintentional use of information from one or more sources without fully divulging how much information is directly quoted.