An informative speech provides factual, unbiased information on a topic. Your goal is to educate the audience, not to persuade.
Figure out the keywords or the main ideas from your assignment topic. For example, one of your topics is Technology and Communication. You can use technology AND communication as search term, however, while reading the article assigned by your instructor (in the assignment description) highlight, underline, make notes, etc. keywords or phrases you could use as additional search terms.
The video below from BYU explains the importance of thinking about and developing relevant keywords for academic research. Some examples of how keywords can be used for this assignment are shown on this page.
See the Boolean Operator Search Tip page for more research strategies.
The following search term examples are words derived from the article in your assignment, "How Technology Influences Communication". The resources below are a sample of what you will find through the HCC Libraries Online Library Catalog and Article Databases.
The * at the end of communicat* represents all variations of the root word communicate. The search results will populate resources with communicate, communication, communicates, etc. See the Boolean Connectors for more search tips. Below is an eBook found in the search results. The search terms link to the complete search results.
Innovations in Technology and Marketing for the Connected Consumer by AND is searching terminology is called a Boolean Connector or Operator. The words AND, OR, NOT are used as Boolean Connectors in a search strategy to include or eliminate certain words or phrases. See the Boolean Operator link on this page for more information.
news media AND technology
The search results provides access to articles published in academic journals, magazines and newspapers. The article below was published in an academic journal.
Articles or other types of library resources that you review in your research will also provide other keywords that can be used as search terms. For example, in reviewing an article about new media technology, the phrase "emerging technologies" could be used as a potential search term to help expand the research results and scope of any of the topics for this assignment.
traditional news media AND technology
"emerging technologies" AND work
technology AND society AND biases
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