Exam 8: Research Ansupporting Material

Many speakers do not know how to use the sophisticated research methods required to produce valid statistical results, so the authors recommend that you use statistics carefully.

“If tuition was able to be kept at its current rate this year, it will be able to be kept at that same rate next year” is an example of a fact.

“Just as you can use the track record of a thoroughbred horse to help determine the probability of winning a race, you can use the high school record of a student to help predict the probability of college success.” What type of supporting material is used in this example?

Audio and visual aids can be used as form of support when they reinforce your information in memorable ways.

Ideas, opinions, and information that are well founded, justified and true and said to be

Objective sources are usually more credible than subjective sources.

If you create a list of classmates from the youngest person in your class (17) to oldest person (42), what would you look for if trying to determine the median age in the class?

Which of the following sources is the document, testimony, or publication in which information first appears?

When you “take words out of context,” you select isolated statements from a source and alter, distort, or contradict the speaker’s or writer’s intended meaning.

All speakers—expert and nonexpert—should search for appropriate and effective supporting material.

When explaining why teachers should praise students for good work, Andrew relates how a high school teacher changed the course of his life by giving him confidence and good advice. What type of supporting material did Andrew use?

“Horsepower is a unit for measuring the power of engines that roughly equal to 746 watts or 33,000 foot-pounds per minute.” What type of supporting material is used in this example?

spoken citation in presentation is also known as a/an

The Internet may be redefining how some students understand the concept of authorship.

“Is the source identified, credible, and unbiased” is the first and most important question to ask when testing the validity of the supporting material you want to use in a presentation.

Using only one type of supporting material results in more effective and concise presentations.

In the Chronicle of Higher Education’s annual survey of attitudes and characteristics of college freshmen, 21 percent of first-year students said they believe that the death penalty should be abolished. What type of supporting material is used in this example?

What type of supporting material is used when advertisers present celebrity endorsements of a product?

Plagiarism is also called "literary borrowing."

“Judging from reported sales in the past year, it typically takes seven months to sell a home in this region.” What type of supporting material is used in this example?