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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Definitions:

Chemical Reactions

Processes that involve the rearrangement of molecular or ionic structure of substances, resulting in new products.

Temperature

A measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in a system, reflecting the system's thermal state or degree of heat.

Catalysts

Substances that increase the rate of chemical reactions without being consumed in the process.

Enzymes

Biomolecules that substantially increase the pace of nearly all chemical processes happening within cellular structures.