LSC-Tomball: Library Research Guides: Persuasive Speech: Search for Articles

How to Present a Speech

Presentation Tips
Presentation tips provided by University of Washington..

TED ideas worth spreading
Library of TED talks and speakers..

TED.com: Presentation Innovation
A collection of TED Talks on the topic of presentation..

ToastMasters International
Public speaking tips by Toastmasters International..

Forbes.com
How to give a great speech..

Find articles

Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Full text from over 500 journals for communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary database; full text of articles from over 5,300 journals, magazines and newspapers, plus image collections.
Humanities Full Text This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles from over 330 journals encompassing all fields of humanities and periodicals dating to 1910.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Complete historical full text of all issues of peer-reviewed journals in a wide range of humanities and social science fields.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Full text of 285 journals in literature, history, international/cultural studies and other humanities and social science fields.
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
[[Upgraded to include even wider coverage!]] Selected full-text from 30 US national and international newspapers and 200 regional papers, plus TV & radio news transcripts.
US Major Dailies This link opens in a new window
US Major Dailies provides access to The New York Times, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune. The content is available by 8am each day and provides archives stretching as far back as 1985.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Over 30 million digital pages of newspapers dating back to the 18th century, including some international newspapers.

Deciding on a Topic

A YouTube video presentation on starting with a research project, presented by NCSU

Develop a Research Question that Works
A YouTube video showing the whole process of doing research - step by step. Presented by University of Cincinnati Libraries.

Web sites: Finding topics

Use these resources to choose a topic to select from. You can also use the library databases on the right to choose a topic from and start your research from there.

ProCon.org: Understand the issues. Understand each other
A leading source for pro con issues with a non-partisan approach, which has a mission of "Promoting critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, and primarily pro-con format."

401 Prompts for Argumentative Writing
401 ideas to write your speech on..Learning Network, Teaching and Learning with the New York Times. (https://www.nytimes.com/section/learning)

509 Informative Speech Ideas and Topics
A site with "hundreds of topics for informative speeches and essays".

Major Types of Informative Speeches
Writing guide from the Writing Studio at Colorado State University

Topic Selection Helper
A list to help pick a topic from, put together by University of Hawai`i Maui Community College Speech Department