Gathering Materials
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choice, short-answer, and essay. Within each of these categories, questions are
clustered by topic, roughly following the order of topics in the textbook.
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True-False Questions
1. T F Using your own knowledge and experience in a speech can help
bring the speech to life.
2. T F Most library catalogues allow a researcher to look for books by
author, title, subject, or keyword.
3. T F Reference works include such items as encyclopedias, yearbooks,
quotation books, and biographical aids.
4. T F The best known collection of quotations is Bartlett’s Familiar
Quotations.
5. T F Yearbooks are reference works whose primary purpose is to help you
find information about people.
6. T F Newspaper and periodical databases help you locate magazine,
journal, and newspaper articles.
7. T F As your textbook explains, academic databases are particularly
useful for finding articles in scholarly journals.
8. T F InfoTrac Onefile is an example of an academic database.
9. T F According to your textbook, in the absence of a full magazine or
journal article, you should cite the abstract of the article instead.
10. T F As your textbook explains, when you locate an abstract of a
magazine article, you should feel free to cite the article in your speech
on the basis of the abstract alone.
11. T F Newspaper and periodical databases are good places to find articles
in scholarly journals.
12. T F Experts advise that you use Internet research to supplement, not to
replace, library research.
13. T F You can find a great deal of information on the Internet, but you
cannot always find the same depth of research materials as in a good
library.
14. T F You can almost always count on the reliability of Internet research
materials found through major search engines such as Google and
Yahoo.
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15. T F A virtual library is a search engine that combines Internet
technology with traditional library methods of cataloguing and
assessing data.
16. T F One advantage of using virtual libraries for speech research is that
they contain only material that has been screened for quality and
reliability.
17. T F Yahoo is an example of a virtual library.
18. T F One of the strengths of the Internet as a research tool is the access
it provides to government documents and publications.
19. T F Statistical Abstract is the standard reference source for numerical
information on the social, political, and economic aspects of American
life.
20. T F Like magazine and journal articles, most documents posted on the
Internet have been subjected to close editorial review.
21. T F As your textbook explains, Wikipedia is usually the only source you
need when researching your speeches.
22. T F As your textbook explains, Wikipedia can be a good place to start
your research, but you need to consult other sources in addition to
Wikipedia.
23. T F According to your textbook, the three major criteria against which to
test documents that you locate on the Internet are authorship,
graphics, and interactivity.
24. T F According to your textbook, the three major criteria against which
to test documents that you locate on the Internet are authorship,
sponsorship, and recency.
25. T F If you cannot identify the author of a document on the Web, you
should try to determine the sponsoring organization for the document.
26. T F Because the Internet can be updated quickly, you can almost always
assume that facts and figures on the Internet are accurate.
27. T F If you can’t find the date on which a Web document was created or
last modified, you are better off looking for a different source.
28. T F An interview is an effective way to gather speech materials because
it frees you of the need to do any other research.
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