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Library Course Guide for COM 1261 - Effective Speaking

This guide contains resources likely to be helpful for the COM 1261 course. Reference books can provide a quick overview of a topic or quick answers to questions. Ebooks and print books can provide more detail and in-depth information. Journal articles can provide current research on a topic.

Web Resources

Web sites

The History Place Great Speeches Collection
This site includes links to transcripts of speeches from national and international historic political figures.

Journal Articles

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Gale OneFile: Communications and Mass Media This link opens in a new window
Language and Speech This link opens in a new window 1958 - Present
Quarterly Journal of Speech This link opens in a new window 2006 - 2015

Videos

Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
The King's Speech This link opens in a new window
Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window

50 Speeches that Made the Modern World This link opens in a new window This book is a celebration of the most influential and thought-provoking speeches that have shaped the world we live in. With comprehensive, chronological coverage of speeches from the 20th and 21st centuries, taken from all corners of the globe.
Chambers Classic Speeches This link opens in a new window This book brings together a diverse selection of eloquent, powerful, witty and passionate speeches, given by politicians, monarchs, rebels and intellectuals from around the world.
Credo Reference and Ebooks This link opens in a new window
Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies This link opens in a new window This book has provided students and the general public alike with a gateway into the study of intercultural communication, public relations and marketing communications since 1984.
EBSCO Ebook Collection This link opens in a new window

Books on language and speaking are likely to be shelved in the following call numbers:

P - Philology. Linguistics
- P87-96: Communication. Mass media
  - P94.7: Interpersonal communication
  - P95-95.6: Oral communcation. Speech
PE - English language
PN - Literature (General)
- PN4001-4355: Oratory. Elocution, etc.
- PN4699-5650: Journalism. The periodical press, etc.
PR - English literature
- PR901-907.2: Oratory
PS - American literature
- PS400-408.2: Oratory