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Hello! My name is Anfernee Coale. I am student at Southern New Hampshire University. Today I will be speaking about credible and ethical resources, as well as oral citations. Let’s jump right in.

First, we’ll cover oral citations. An oral citation in a public speaking setting would go as follows:

“The textbook, The Art of Public Speaking: 13th Edition, published in the year 2020, written by Stephen Lucas (Lucas, 2020). He was a professor of communication arts. He states that when citing sources orally, the following information needs to be identified:

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• The book, magazine, newspaper, or Web document you are citing

• The author or sponsoring organization of the document

• The author’s qualifications with regard to the topic

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• The date on which the document was published, posted, or updated

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The textbook also states that not all of the information needs to be present in the oral citation. The presenter only needs to give the audience information relevant to the topic. For example, if I were to quote a line from one of my favorite book series, Heroes of Olympus, written by Rick Riordan, depending on the topic, I most likely wouldn’t need to specify the year the book was published because it most likely wouldn’t be relevant information for the audience. However, seeing as there are multiple novels in the Heroes of Olympus series, it would be beneficial for me to cite which book in the series the quote came from.

Moving on to credible and ethical resources.

The aforementioned textbook mentions that for a source to be credible, it must be unbiased and from a credible source.

For example, if I were to write a paper on why reading the Heroes of Olympus series makes someone a better person, using a source written by a fan OR group of fans of the series wouldn’t be considered credible because we don’t know the qualifications of the fans and the source would be biased in favor of the book series.

However, if I were to find a source made by a professor of psychology who conducted an unbiased study on people who have read the book series versus those who haven’t, that would be considered credible.

An ethical resource is one that states its own resources that were utilized in the making of their own content.

For example, if I were writing a paper on the history of LGBT acceptance in the US, a resource I utilized in the making of the paper might meet the qualifications of being credible, however, if the resource doesn’t cite its own sources, it would be deemed unethical.

The use of ethical resources is important for a couple of reasons.

One of these reasons is because the use of ethical resources minimizes error through multiple sources stating the same findings. Finding ethical resources also prevents the spread of false information.

References Lucas, S. (2020). The Art of Public Speaking 13th Edition. Cosimo Classics.