I really focused in on the “Acknowledging your sources” part
of the chapter. The reason that this part of the reading was interesting to me
was because I did not realize how necessary this part of the speech process is.
Growing up and going through school has always taught us that we should always
cite our sources; otherwise we could easily be seen as plagiarizing. I didn’t
realize the case was the same for public speaking. Although I knew it was
necessary for the bibliography of any research, the reading allowed me to see
that oral citations are necessary as well. An oral citation is “a source of
information that a speaker mentions, or cites during a speech,” (Coopman 117).
The book shows examples of how oral citations should be written out, and the
niche I got from these were that the citation is just inserted with the word
flow. While giving the speech you can mention the source and then speak on the
information or give the information followed by an oral citation of the source.
When I did my reading I found this information informative
as well as acknowledging where I got my research from through oral citations,
therefore I decided to write about that. Nonetheless, this information is quite
helpful for evaluating your speech's topics. I agree with you that looking for
credible sources is a huge part of the research process, and if your source is
not credible you can be lending your audience the wrong information. I like how
you listed what sources you go to to find credible information because you are
right sources such as Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, therefore presenting
false facts.
I found this section to be helpful as well in the reading. I guess it was something that I knew about, but never really thought about. When I think about doing oral citations it seems awkward to me to mention it in the middle of what you were saying, but it is necessary just like writing a paper. I think that when I compare it to a paper it is just something that I over look when reading a paper with citations. It's something that I need to work on, getting the flow down so that it doesn't sound awkward. Good luck to you on your research.
ReplyDeleteThis is something I think it is very important to address and I am glad that you did. Oral citations are a huge part of giving a speech because it is important the credit is always placed in the right spot. I also have noticed that it is very challenging to make sure research is credible because I always overlook the source when I am just focused on getting the information. You are right it is very important to do a written citation and an oral citation. This is great insight into making sure sources are given credit. Good luck with your research.
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