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Speech151 Introduction to Speech

This guide will help you locate, evaluate, and cite credible sources for your three speeches: Demonstration, Informative, and Persuasive.

The Research Process

1. Information need: Credible sources for your speeches.

2. Pre-research: Learn more about your topic, narrow it down, find keywords.

3. Research question: This will be the subject of your speech.

4. Search strategy: Where will you look for the information? 

5. Search: Start with the keywords you identified during the pre-research step.

6. Evaluate the information you find.

7. Cite: You have found credible sources to authoritatively present your speeches!