Your Brain Is Fried, and You Just Cannot Come Up

question 18

Multiple Choice

Your brain is fried, and you just cannot come up with a creative topic for an assigned speech. As a last resort, you fire up your computer and search the Web looking for something to spark your interest.Isthis advisable, according to your textbook?

• A) No; Web sources offer unreliable material, which doesn't make for a good topic.
• B) Yes, but topics generated from Web sources take much longer to develop than others.
• C) Yes; scanning Web directories may be an effective strategy to find a speech topic.
• D) No; it is a form of plagiarism when you poach speech topics from sites on the Web.

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