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Citing Sources in Your Speech

The document provides tips for citing sources in speeches, including telling the audience the source before using information from it and providing enough details about each source so that the audience could find the source. It discusses citing direct quotations, books, periodicals, journals, websites, and interviews in speeches.

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Citing Sources in Your Speech

The document provides tips for citing sources in speeches, including telling the audience the source before using information from it and providing enough details about each source so that the audience could find the source. It discusses citing direct quotations, books, periodicals, journals, websites, and interviews in speeches.

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Public Speaking

OBJECTIVES

 Citing Sources in your speeches


Citing Sources in Your Speech (In-Text Citations)
 General Tips:
• Tell the audience your source before you use the information
• Use brief pauses to indicate the start and end of a direct quote.
• Provide enough information about each source so that your audience could,
with a little effort, find them. This should include the author(s) name, a brief
explanation of their credentials, the title of the work, and publication date.
• “In the 1979 edition of The Elements of Style, renowned grammarians and
composition stylists Strunk and White encourage writers to ‘make every word tell.’”
• If your source is unknown to your audience, provide enough information about
your source for the audience to perceive them as credible. Typically, we provide
this credentialing of the source by stating the source’s qualifications to discuss
the topic.
• “Dr. Derek Bok, the President Emeritus of Harvard University and the author of The
Politics of Happiness argues that the American government should design policies to
enhance the happiness of its citizens.”
Citing Sources in Your Speech (In-
 Direct Quotations: Text Citations)
• These should be acknowledged in your speech or presentation either as “And I quote…” or “As [the
source] puts it…”
 Book:
 Include title and author: “According to April Jones, author of Readings on Gender…”
 Periodical/Magazine:
• Include title and date: “Time, March 28, 2005, explains…” or “The New York Times, June 5, 2006,
explained it this way…”
 Journal:
• Include journal title, date, and author: “Morgan Smith writes in the Fall 2005 issue of Science…”
 Website:
• For organizational or long-standing website, include title: “The center for Disease Control web
site includes information…” For news or magazine websites, include title and date: “ CNN.com,
on March 28, 2005, states…”
 Interviews, lecture notes, or personal communication:
• Include name and credentials of source: “Alice Smith, professor of Economics at USM, had this to
say about the growth plan…” or “According to junior Speech Communication major, Susan
Wallace…”

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