Your brain is fried, and you just cannot come up with a creative topic for an assigned speech. As a last resort, you fire up your computer and search the Web looking for something to spark your interest. Is this advisable, according to your textbook?
A) No; Web sources offer unreliable material, which doesn't make for a good topic.
B) Yes, but topics generated from Web sources take much longer to develop than others.
C) Yes; scanning Web directories may be an effective strategy to find a speech topic.
D) No; it is a form of plagiarism when you poach speech topics from sites on the Web.
Answer: C
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