Public Speaking Links
Reference Websites
www.itools.com- Search engines, newspaper searches, encyclopedias, quotations, dictionaries, translators, and more on one page.
www.quotationspage.com- Quotations searchable by author or topic.
www.bartleby.com- Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
www.refdesk.com- A little bit of everything: news, encyclopedias, and hundreds of links. A good place to start if you are doing online research.
www.reference.com- Almanacs, atlases, dictionaries, thesaurases, and more.
www.slonet.org/~tellswor- A pretty good clean humor archive that allows you to search for jokes by keyword.
www.loc.gov- The Library of Congress home page, featuring on-line resources and materials for many topics. Especially good for American History topics.
www.doaj.org- Directory of Open Access Journals, featuring searchable links to nearly 400 free online scholarly journals covering a variety of topics.
www.NewsVoyager.com- Features links to the websites for thousands of newspapers across the country.
www.magatopia.com- Links to magazines available online.
Helpful Websites
www.stylewizard.com- This free site builds MLA and APA citations for your bibliography or works cited.
www.writing2.richmond.edu- An interesting exercise and discussion about how to avoid cliches in your writing.
www.actden.com/pp- A free online PowerPoint tutorial. Looks like it’s designed for kids, but it does the job.
www.crlsresearchguide.org- A free online outline generator. Fill in your info and it creates a nice outline.
www.plagiarismtest.org- Links and information about plagiarism, it’s consequences, and what your professors are doing about it.
speakfreak.com- A self-help website for people with a fear of public speaking. Features chatroom and articles.
www.historychannel.com/speeches- History Channel web page with audio and video clips of some of the great speeches in modern history.
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Communication Websites
National Communication Association- promotes communication studies scholarship and education.
NCA Student Membership- Quick link to become a student member of the National Communication Association.
American Communication Association- A free online organization and discussion forum for Communication Studies.
Communication Studies Resources- University of Iowa’s Index of Online Communication Studies Resources
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