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Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to research Todd Library databases to find a topic and three sources for Informative speech

Directions: Topics needs to be approved to complete your speech. Speech must be done on approved topic.

Cite 3 different sources from Todd Library. Use the citation tool in databases. You can choose either APA/MLA format. Include URL from Todd Library and/or .doi at end of each citation.
Sources need to be current – not more than 5-8 years old.
Topic is current and educational/beneficial for a diversified student audience.
Topic is narrowed and focused to one specific aspect of topic.
Example: Topic – Jordan Belfort (The Wolf of Wall Street)- Narrowed/Specific purpose – How to bounce back from devastating setbacks
Main points must be based on research and directly support specific purpose.
Use complete, grammatically correct sentences.
Use Library Databases to find a topic and your sources for Informative Speech:

Access World News – Great place to begin looking for topics. Click on “suggested topics”
Today’s Science – Great place to begin looking for topics. Under “Featured Resources” click on “All Today’s Science Topics”
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center
Academic search Complete – Most popular general database – good to use to find additional sources on topic
Business Source Elite
ERIC – General education articles. Excellent to find support material for topic.
Gender Studies Database – subjects covered include gender inequality, masculinity, post-feminism and gender identity
Health Source: Consumer Education – covers a variety of subjects on specific diseases, overall health topics
Newspaper Source
PsycArticles – psychology, behavioral and social sciences articles
Sociology Source Ultimate – coverage topics range from gender identity, marriage and family, demographics, political sociology, religion and socio-cultural anthropology
Topics NOT allowed: (This list is not an exhaustive list. If I cannot determine that a topic is beneficial/useful/educational for a student audience, a new topic proposal will need to be submitted.)

Topics NOT Allowed: Before you begin, work smarter, not harder and do not choose a topic from this list.

Any topic used in course as an example for instructional purposes. i.e. Body Image and Negative Impact of Social Media
Anything general and common knowledge – always narrow your topic to avoid this issue
Any topic that generalizes negatively about a group of people
Mass murders, serial killers, drug lords
Format For Topic Proposal

Topic choice:

Specific Purpose: To educate/teach my audience about:

Main point 1: State main point in a complete sentence.

Source Citation: APA or MLA format – copy and paste from database citation tool. Include full URL or doi number.
Summary: Minimum of 50 words
Main point 2: State main point in a complete sentence.

Source Citation: APA or MLA format – copy and paste from database citation tool. Include full URL or doi number.
Summary: Minimum of 50 words
Main point 3: State main point in a complete sentence.

Source Citation: APA or MLA format – copy and paste from database citation tool. Include full URL or doi number.
Summary: Minimum of 50 words
Please note: There must be 3 different sources used. You can use more than 1 source for main points.

Example

Topic Choice: Negative Impact of Social Media

Specific Purpose: To educate my audience on how addiction to social media causes depression.

Main Point 1: Pathways that connect social media to depression.

Source: AHC Media. (2019). Social Media Use and Depression in Teens. Integrative Medicine Alert, 22(5), 0. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=136131176&site=ehost-live.
Summary:
Investigators found an association between social media use and depressive symptoms was larger for girls than boys. There appear to be multiple potential pathways between social media use and depressive symptoms, including online harassment, poor sleep, low self-esteem, and poor body image. According to results published by the Pew Research Center in November 2018, 45% of U.S. teens reported they are online “almost constantly. Of those who reported that social media has had a mostly negative effect, the top concern was that social media leads to more bullying.

Main Point 2: Potential negative effects on adolescent mental health.

Source: Nasier, B., Gibson, K., & Trnka, S. (2021). PM me or LOL: Young peoples observations of supportive and unsympathetic responses to distress on social media. Computers in Human Behavior, 124, N.PAG. https://doi-org.dewey.waubonsee.edu/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106933 (Links to an external site.)
Summary: The debate over the effects social media is is proving to have a negative effect on mental health. A study published in the American Psychological Associations Journal of Abnormal Psychology in March 2019 surveyed hundreds of thousands of young people and found that cultural trends in the last 10 years have led to an increase in mood disorders and suicide-related outcomes for youth. But a 2018 poll by Common Sense Media found that most teens said social media makes them feel better, not worse, about themselves. Bullying has been recognized to occur specifically in response to online posts about distress and has been identified as particularly problematic in response to expressions of suicidality (Robinson et al., 2016 (Links to an external site.)).
Main Point 3: Doomscrolling – the act of continuing to scroll through bad news even though it is depressing. Source: Nasier, B., Gibson, K., & Trnka, S. (2021)

Source: Artavia, D. (2020). Doom & Gloom. Advocate, 1110, 1617. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=144913120&site=ehost-live.
Summary: A stream of stressful news is causing millions of Americans to check the latest developments via their social media feed, giving rise to the term doomscrolling, i.e. the act of continuing to scroll through bad news even though its disheartening or depressing. Its important to note, however, that our attraction to triggering news may also have an evolutionary purpose. As Pamela B. Rutledge writes in Psychology Today, our brains instinctively pay attention to potentially dangerous situations as part of the biological imperative of survival, and therefore its nearly impossible to turn the other way when we sense an imminent threat, even if that threat is on a tiny screen. This leads to even more anxiety and stress, and the more stressed out we are, the more vulnerable we are to misinformation in our search for answers

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