Ch. 5

Question 1

research question

Answer 1

the question about your topic you seek to answer

Question 2

enkyklios paideia

Answer 2

rounded education spread under the reign of Alexander the great

Question 3

trivium

Answer 3

grammer, rhetoric, and logic

Question 4

quadrivium

Answer 4

arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy

Question 5

information literacy

Answer 5

the ability to figure out the tope of information you need, find that information, evaluate it, and properly use it

Question 6

accuracy

Answer 6

the truthfulness or correctness of a source

Question 7

bias

Answer 7

presenting information in a way that unfairly influences someones perception of something

Question 8

plagiarism

Answer 8

to present another person’s work or ideas as your own

Question 9

incremental plagiarism

Answer 9

failure to give proper credit for parts of a speech that are borrowed from others

Question 10

patchwork plagiarism

Answer 10

stealing ideas from two or more sources without referencing them

Question 11

global plagiarism

Answer 11

taking an entire speech from a single source and pawning it off as your own

Question 12

ghostwriting

Answer 12

to write for and in the name of another person

Question 13

background information

Answer 13

material that provides context for a topic

Question 14

tangential information

Answer 14

Evidence used to provide background and capture an audiences interest

Question 15

evidentiary information

Answer 15

Information that supports main points within a speech and is directly related to the topic

Question 16

Dewey decimal classification system

Answer 16

The coding system for books, magazines, and journals, used libraries

Question 17

JSTOR

Answer 17

Electronic database for political journals

Question 18

Communication/mass media complete

Answer 18

An electronic database for academic journals and popular sources related to communication and journalism

Question 19

LEXIS-NEXIS

Answer 19

An electronic database for newspapers and magazines

Question 20

Formal survey

Answer 20

A time-consuming way of gathering data on a population which employs randomized sampling to ensure reliability and validity

Question 21

Informal survey

Answer 21

polling a few people based convenience

Question 22

Interviewing

Answer 22

A direct method of gathering information from from a human source that allows for questions to adapt to responses

Question 23

Undercover interview

Answer 23

When the interviewer disguises either in himself or his purpose in an effort to trick someone into sharing more information than they may have if the interviewee knew to whom he or she was speaking

Question 24

Chicago manual style (CMS)

Answer 24

Preferred reference manual for rhetorical studies

Question 25

American psychological association (APA)

Answer 25

Preferred reference manual for social science communication scholars

Question 26

Modern language Association (MLA)

Answer 26

The citation style used in disciplines with in the liberal arts and humanities