Communication (including Professional Communication)
- American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank
This site includes an index to 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 links to
speeches are arranged alphabetically by first name.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm
- Communication Studies Resources
Edited by Karla Tonella (former instructor and Graduate Student at the
University of Iowa), this site is a gateway to dozens of links useful
to Communication students. Sites are listed under headings such as:
Advertising; Film Studies; Gender, Ethnicity and Race in Mass Communication;
Health & Science Communication; Journalism & Mass Communication; Media
Studies, TV, and Radio; Speeches & Speechmakers; and Visual Communication.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/
- Effective Presentations
Tutorial for creating oral presentations, designing visual aids for
presentations and creating poster session presentations. Links to related material.
http://www.kumc.edu/SAH/OTEd/jradel/effective.html
- Gifts of Speech
A project of Sweet Briar College and in existance since 1996, "Gifts
of Speech" is a Web site dedicated to preserving and creating access
to speeches by influential contemporary, women from around the world.
http://www.giftsofspeech.org
- Media Link
Links to newspapers, magazines, television, radio, film studios, news
agencies and related Web sites. International in scope.
http://www.kidon.com/media-link/index.shtml
- New America Media (NAM)
Founded in 1996 by the alternative news outlet Pacific News Service, NAM is "dedicated to bringing the voices of the marginalized such as ethnic minorities, immigrants, young people, and the elderly into the national discourse. NAM receives English-translated content from 700-plus ethnic media partners. News features which are publicly available online also include video clips and audio programs. Users may browse content in the left column of the home page by Ethnicities, Special Beats, Multimedia, Events, Resources, and Information.
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/
- Online Writing Lab, Purdue University
Materials, links and services to help writers, writing teachers and
undergraduate researchers. An outgrowth of Purdue's Writing Lab by Muriel
Harris, Editor of Writing Lab Newsletter.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
- PoynterOnline - Resource Center
Billed as "everything you need to be a better journalist," this site
is maintained by the Poynter Institute, a school for journalists, aspiring
journalists and journalism teachers. It is divided into four broad sections:
"Poynter Extras," "Bibliographies," "Resource Files," and "Journalism
Links," and provides access to information on a wide range of topics
such as: media ethics; photojournalism; politics & the press; reporting,
writing & editing; visual journalism; and youth & the media among many others.
http://www.poynter.org/resource_center/
- Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches
Produced in conjunction with an American Radio Works radio documentary, this
site includes text and links to audio files of speeches by Booker T. Washington,
Marcus Garvey, Mary McLeod Bethune, Dick Gregory, Fannie Lou Hamer,
Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King, Jr., Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan,
Jesse Jackson, Clarence Thomas, and Barack Obama.
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/
- Women's eNews
In existance since 1999, Women's eNews claims to be the definitive source
of substantive news--unavailable anywhere else--covering issues of particular
concern to women and providing women's perspectives on public policy.
http://www.womensenews.org
