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| A creative problem-solving technique used to generate many ideas |
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| A Web site that allows access to the World Wide Web through categories that are then broken down into ever-more-specific categories |
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| Wording of a specific purpose in terms of desired audience behavior |
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| The central idea of a speech plus a preview of main ideas |
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| A vast collection of hundreds of thousands of computers accessible to millions of people all over the world |
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| The most popular information-delivery system of the Internet |
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| A location on the World Wide Web that includes a number of related Web pages |
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| An individual file or screen that is part of a Web site |
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| Uniform resource locator; the address of a Web site or Web page |
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| Software that accesses Web sites and Web pages |
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| Image, icon, or colored and underlined text on a Web page that connects the user with another Web page or Web site |
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| A browser feature that allows a user to save a URL for future reference |
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| A site that works by offering the user ever-more-specific categories of information from which to select |
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| A Web site that works much like a traditional card catalog or index, allowing access to the Worl Wide Web through a subject or key word search |
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| An item in a list generated as a result of a search of the Internet |
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| An advanced Web-searching technique that allows a user to narrow a subject or key word search by adding various requirements |
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| The collection of books in a library |
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| A file of information about the books in a library; may be an index-card filing system or a computerized system |
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| A listing of bibliographical data for articles published in a group of magazines and/or journals during a given time period |
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| An indexing system, available on the World Wide Web or on CD-ROM, that provides not only bibliographic data but also full texts of entries |
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| A listing of bibliographical data for articles published in a newspaper (or group of newspapers) during a given period |
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| A list of potential resources to be used in the preparation of a speech |
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| A story or anecdote that provides an example of an idea, issue, or problem a speaker is discussing |
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| An unelaborated example, often only a sentence or two long |
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| Hypothetical illustration |
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| An example that might happen but that has not actually occurred |
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| A word picture of something |
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| A statement that makes clear how something is done or why it exists in its present form or existed in its past form |
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| A statement about what a term means or how it is applied in a specific instance |
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| Definition by classification |
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| A "dictionary definition," constructed by first placing a term in the general class to which it belongs and then differentiating it from all other members of that class |
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| A statement that shows how something works or what it does |
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| A comparison between two things |
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| A comparison between two similar things |
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| A comparison between two essentially dissimilar things that share some common feature on which the comparison depends |
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| Numerical data that summarize facts or samples |
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| The original collector and interpreter of information or data |
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| An individual, organization, or publication that reports information or data gathered by another entity |
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| A statement expressing an individual's attitudes, beliefs, or values |
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| An opinion offered by someone who is an authority on a subject |
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| An opinion or description offered by a nonexpert who has firsthand experience |
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| An opinion or description by a writer who speaks in a memorable and often poetic way |
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| An audience's perception of a speaker as competent, trustworthy, knowlegeable, and dynamic |
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| An illustration or brief story |
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| A question intended to provoke thought, rather than elicit an answer |
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| The quality of a conclusion that makes a speech "sound finished" |
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