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Locating online resources

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General Communication links

http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/fragments/writers_tools.html
The Fragments site at the University of Iowa provides links to a wide range of resources in all categories.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/index.html
The University of Iowa Communication Studies Department provides links to a wide variety of communication resource links.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/links/IowaTopTen.htm
The University of Iowa's top ten list of Communication sites.

Tutorial Topics links

http://manta.library.colostate.edu/howto/toptip.html
The Colorado State University Library's site on doing research includes a page dedicated to topic selection.

http://manta.library.colostate.edu/howto/sp200.html
The Colorado State University Library hosts a site dedicated to supporting the basic speech course.  It includes information on locating topic information and resources for different types of speeches.

http://manta.library.colostate.edu/howto/doing-r.html
Sponsored by Colorado State University Library this site focuses on doing research.  It contains extensive coverage of using library tools to locate research materials and evaluation techniques for both printed and online materials.

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/english/compde/ewreslib.html
This McGraw-Hill Research Library site provides links for evaluating sources and preparing documents.

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/english/compde/guide/
The McGraw-Hill Guide to Electronic Research and Documentation provides detailed help for working with online sources.

http://www.science.widener.edu/~withers/webeval.htm
This section of the Widener University site provides checklists for evaluating various types of web pages.

http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/research/classes/gs175/3gs175/evaluation.html
This page from the Purdue Libraries site describes the anatomy of a web page.  Use it to find standard locations for author, sponsor, and date information on web pages.

http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/~techman/eval.html
This page from the Purdue Libraries site offers a checklist of items to use when evaluating websites.

www.science.widener.edu/~withers/wbstrbib.htm
This page on the Widener University site provides a bibliography of resources (online and printed) regarding web evaluation techniques.

http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/evaln.htm
Another high-quality bibliography of resources (online and printed) regarding web evaluation techniques.

http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-InfoQuality.html
The World Wide Web Virtual Library.  This site provides one of the most extensive sets of links to sites for online resource evaluation.

http://milton.mse.jhu.edu:8001/research/education/net.html
http://milton.mse.jhu.edu:8001/research/education/practical.html
These pages on Milton's Web at Johns Hopkins University list practical steps to evaluating internet resources

History and Careers links

http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/
The Douglass Archives of American Public Address store American Oratory and related documents.

http://www.webcorp.com/sounds/index.htm
Audio recording clips of famous speeches and speakers.

http://www.idt.unit.no/~isfit/Speeches.html
Human rights speeches given at the the International Student Festival in Trondheim.

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/
Presidential addresses.

 




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