Acknowledging Your Sources

The chapter 6 topic I chose to discuss in further detail is acknowledging your sources. The book talks about it briefly and gives examples for APA and MLA formatted written citations. It is important to not only site your sources of information in your written bibliography, but also verbally during your speech. Credit should be given where credit is due. Additionally, verbally citing sources from your research during your speech makes you, as the speaker, sound more knowledgeable about the topic and gives your speech credibility. Anybody can talk about a subject but if they have credible sources to back up their information, the information they are providing can be taken more seriously. As a speaker it is imperative that your audience view you as being an expert on the topic, otherwise you are just a person talking with no real impact. Having done research on a topic and being able to quote the sources for that research makes the information you are providing have more of an impact. In other words, don't just take my word for it.