Reserach+Assignment+1

**__ Step 1: __** Using the library’s on-line catalog and databases, find at least three and up to five sources to draw research for your informative speech. The sources may be journals, magazines, newspaper articles or books. You may not use any information from a “.com” or “.org” web site, unless that is where you were directed from a scholarly search engine such as EBSCO host or Pro Quest to print out an article from a newspaper or journals web site.
 * Informative Research Assignment (25 points) **

**__ Step 2: __** Find a least 5 pieces of evidence that you think will be useful to you in your informative speech. You need to find one piece of evidence to meet each of the following requirements. (one narrative, one example, one testimony (expert or lay), one statistic, and one analogy)

For each piece of evidence you need to make sure you make a photocopy or email the source to yourself so you can cut and paste or write out the direct quotation, so as to avoid misinterpreting the information. It is also important that you note the author/s full name/s, the date and location of publication, the source the information was found in (i.e. title of the book, magazine, article, newspaper, etc), the title of the work, basically all the information you need to be able to accurately cite the source and reference the source on a reference page.
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Type out or cut and paste each of the 5 types of evidence into one document, clearly labeling and citing each piece of evidence. (see example page) At the top of the page please type up your name and topic for your informative speech.
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Type up a reference page.
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**__ Step 6: __** Staple all material together.