Chapter 2.11: Citing Sources in Your
Speech
• Acknowledging sources is a critical aspect of
delivering a speech or presentation
• Crediting sources allows you to:
– Demonstrate the quality of research to audience
members
– Avoid plagiarism and gain credibility
– Enhance your own authority and win more support
– Enable listeners to locate your sources and pursue
their own research on the topic
Alert listeners to key source
information
• Plan on briefly alerting
the audience for each
source
• Establish the source’s
trustworthiness
– Source reliability refers
to our level of trust in a
source’s credentials and
track record for
providing accurate
information
• Avoid a mechanical
delivery
– Should not interrupt the
flow of the speech
Source Types
• Review examples of
common source types
(page 88-89)
• Source qualifier- brief
description of the
source’s qualifications
to address the topic