SPEECH

Reference Books | Databases | Periodicals | Websites

REFERENCE BOOKS

• The art of public speaking. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2001. 808.5 L72
• Encyclopedia of new media: an essential reference to communication and technology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2003. R302.23 E536
• Principles and types of speech communication. New York: Longman, 2000. 808.5 P72
• Public speaking: an audience-centered approach. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2000. 808.5 B385

DATABASES

• Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)

PERIODICALS

Find Journals on Communications & Mass Media available in print at Plough Library and/or online through CBU databases.

WEBSITES

• Advanced Public Speaking Institute: Offers over 100 free articles on practical aspects of public speaking.
• Allyn & Bacon Public Speaking Site: Offers 6 information modules (Assess, Analyze, Research, Organize, Deliver, and Discern) to learn about the process of public speaking and to help you prepare your talks.
• American Rhetoric: Offers the Online Speech Bank and the Top 100 Speeches. The online speech bank is a growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews and other recorded media events. The top 100 speeches are a partial database of full text transcriptions of the 100 most significant American political speeches of the 20th century.
• ACA: The American Communication Association: Numerous resources: check out links under Communication Studies and Communication Law. Also includes the full text online journal, The American Communication Journal since 1997.
• Center for Nonverbal Studies: Includes The Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs & Body Language Cues, which draws on the work of anthropologists, archaeologists, biologists, linguists, psychiatrists, psychologists, semioticians, and others who have studied human communication from a scientific point of view.
• Freepress: National nonpartisan organization working to increase informed public participation in crucial media policy debates, and to generate policies that will produce a more competitive and public interest-oriented media system
• Rhetoric and Composition: Includes links to works of classical rhetoric, glossaries of rhetorical terms, and much more.
• Television News Archive: Material in this Vanderbilt University archive can be identified for use through the TV-NewsSearch Database. Tthrough its detailed content related to news events, this resource serves as a unique reference tool for studying historical and political events.