CMJ 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Quadrivium, Modern Language Association, Jstor

• School: University of Maine
• Department: Communication, Mass Communication and Journalism
• Course: CMJ 103
• Professor: Amanda Quiring

Document Summary

The speaker: the tradition and practice of public speaking, 3rd edition. Enkyklios paideia: rounded education spread under the reign of alexander the great. Research question: the question about your topic you wish to answer. Information literacy: the ability to figure out the type of information you need, find that information, evaluate it, and properly use it. Accuracy: the truthfulness or correctness of a source. Bias: presenting information in a way that unfairly influences someone"s perception of something. Plagiarism: to present another person"s work or ideas as your own. Incremental plagiarism: failure to give proper credit for parts of a speech that are borrowed from others. Patchwork plagiarism: stealing ideas from two or three sources without referencing them. Global plagiarism: taking an entire speech from a single source and pawning it off as your own. Ghostwriting: to write for and in the name of the other person. Background information: material that provides context for a topic.