word definitions for chapters 6-10 and 13
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- catalogue
- a listing of all books periodicals and other resources owned by the library
- call number
- a number used in libraries to classify books and periodicals and to indicate where you can find it on the shelf
- periodical database
- a research aid that catalogues articles from a large number of journals or magazines
- abstract
- summary of magazine or journal article written by someone other than the original author
- reference work
- aa work that groups together large amounts of related information for easy access by researchers
- general encyclopedia
- provides general information about all branches of human knowledge
- special encyclopedia
- reference work devoted to specific subjects such as religion, art, law, science, and music
- yearbook
- contains information about the previous year. published annually
- biographical aid
- provides information about people
- atlas
- book of maps
- gazetteer
- geographical dictionary, provides more specific information such as hospitals, museums, etc.
- search aid
- program used to find information on the web
- search engine
- aid that indexes web pages and checks them for sites that match the researchers request
- metasearch engine
- aid that sends a searchers request to several search engines at a time
- virtual library
- combines internet technology with traditional library methods of cataloguing and assessing data
- Invisible Web
- multitude of web databases and other resources that are not indexed by search engines
- URL
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(Uniform resource locator)
The string of letters or numbers that identifies the webpage address - bookmark
- stores links in web sites do they can easily be revisited. (Favorites)
- sponcering organization
- organization, that in the absence of a clearly identified author is responsible for the content of the document
- research interview
- interview conducted to gather information for a speech
- preliminary bibliography
- list compiled early in research of works that look as if they might contain useful information about a topic
- supporting materials
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materials used to support a speakers ideas. 3 kinds of supporting materials
1. examples
2. statistics
3. testimony - example
- specific case used to illistrate or represent a group of people, ideas, conditions, or experience
- brief example
- case refered to in passing to illistrate a point
- extended example
- story, narrative or anecdote developed at some length to illistrate a point
- hypothestical example
- examples that discribes an imaginary situation
- statistics
- numerical data
- mean
- average value of group of numbers
- median
- middle number of a group of numbers arranged highest to lowest
- mode
- the number that occurs most frequently in a group of numbers
- testimony
- quotations or paraphrase used to support a point
- expert testimony
- testimony from people who are recognized experts in their field
- peer testimony
- testimony from ordinary people with first hand experience or insight on a topic
- direct question
- testimony that is presented word for word
- paraphrase
- restate or summarize a sources idea in your own words
- quoting out of context
- twisting someone elses' quote to fit your meaning
- strategic organization
- putting a speech together in a certain way to achieve a certain result with a certain audience
- main points
- the major points developing the body of a speech, most speeches contain from 2 to 5 main points
- chronological order
- follow a time line
- spatial order
- follows a directional patern, example: top to bottom, Maine/Vermont
- casual order
- main points show a cause and effect relationship
- problem solution order
- main point deals with a problem, second main point presents a solution
- topical order
- main points devide the topic into logical and consistant sub-topics
- connective
- word or phrase that connects the ideas of a speech and indicates the relationship between them
- transition
- word or phrase that indicates when a speaker has finished one thought and is moving on to another
- internal preview
- lets the audience know what the speaker is going to discuss next
- internal summary
- summarizes what the speaker has already talked about
- signpost
- indicates where a speaker is in the speech or focuses attention on key ideas
- rhetorical question
- question that the audience answers mentally
- credibility
- audience's perception of whether a speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic
- good will
- (warm fuzzy feeling) whether the speaker has the best interest of the audience in mind
- preview statmatment
- statement in the introduction of a speech that identifies the main points to be discussed
- crescendo ending
- conclusion in which the speech builds power and intensity
- dissolve ending
- conclusion that generates emotional appeal by fading step by step by step to a dramatic final statment
- preparation outline
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an outline that includes:
title
specific purpose
central idea
introduction
main points
sub points
connectives
conclusion
bibliography - visual framework
- the pattern of an outline that shows relationships amoung a speakers ideas
- bibliography
- list of sources used in preparing a speech
- speaking outline
- brief outline used to jog a speakers memory during the presentation of a speech
- delivery cues
- directions in speakers outline to help remember how to deliver key parts of the speech
- model
- an object that represents another object in detail
- graph
- visual aid used to show statistical trends and patterns
- line graph
- uses one or more lines to show changes in statistics over time or space
- pie graph
- shows percentages using simple distribution patterns
- bar graph
- vertical or horozontal bars to show comparisons amoung two or more items
- chart
- summarizes large blocks of information usually in list format
- transparency
- a visually aid drawn written or printed shown with an overhead projector
- multimedia presentation
- a speech that combines several kinds of visual and/or audio aids in the same talk
- font
- a complete set of type of the same design