Chapter 4

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

grammar, 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 type 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 someone’s 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 other

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 (done in politics)

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 audience’s 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 in libraries

Question 17

JSTOR

Answer 17

an 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 newspaper 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 on convenience

Question 22

interviewing

Answer 22

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

Question 23

undercover interviewing

Answer 23

when the interviewer disguises either himself of 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

Answer 24

preferred reference manual for rhetorical studies

Question 25

American Psychological Association

Answer 25

preferred reference manual for social science communication scholars

Question 26

Modern Language Association

Answer 26

a citation style used in disciplines within the liberal arts and humanities