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Student Resource
Gamble, The Public Speaking Playbook, 2nd Edition
SAGE Publishing, 2018
Discussion Questions
Chapter 7: Finding and Evaluating Research
1. For your next speech, conduct an interview with an expert on the subject. Describe how
you might utilize this information in the speech.
2. Review three different food blogs. Which blogs do you find to be most credible and why?
3. Choose a topic for your next speech, identify three primary sources. Evaluate the
credibility of each source.
4. Review a speech on YouTube that addresses a major social issue, e.g. poverty. What
types of supporting evidence were used? Using the guidelines in the chapter, evaluate the
overall quality of the oral citations within the speech?
5. What advice would you offer a speaker who is concerned about how much supporting
evidence (primary and/or secondary) to include in a five minute speech? How can this
speaker avoid incorporating too much or too little?
