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GENERAL: Searching for a topic and/or new cool info?  These are good places to start

http://www.lynchburg.edu/library/eresource/eresource.htm

This will take you directly to Expanded Academic ASAP at Lynchburg College library.

http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/  

        This will take you directly to CQ Researcher at Lynchburg College library.  This is an excellent
        resource for finding controversial issues, as well as truly impressive in offering background
        and overview information.

http://www.decadeofbehavior.org/ 

http://www.yenra.com/

This site is a great clearing house for other .com sites, including news and technology news sites, as well as a list of topical sites and a number of search engines all on the one home page.  They even went to the trouble of sending me an update of their organization and web address so I could update my link here (and they pointed me to this page of mine) so they must be very expert at information. [updated 4/26/04] 

http://opinion-pages.org/

Looking for an argument?  You should definitely find a lot of them on this site.  According to their self-description, this site is "THE BEST access to the most current editorials, opinions, commentaries and columnists from English newspapers and magazines on the World Wide Web."

http://MagPortal.com

This is literally a portal to magazine articles that are recent and topical.  Students searching out topics would do well to visit this site.

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/LiveRef.htm

LiveRef(sm) provides a wealth of links related to real-time reference services.  It is another resource put together and maintained by Gerry McKiernan of the Science and Technology Services Department at Iowa State University Library.

http://www.nytimes.com/college/index.html

This newly launched site from New York Times is oriented to students & faculty as its target audience.  New stories that will appeal to students, articles organized by academic subject, college issues & so on are all available for the site visitor.

http://www.1stHeadlines.com

This handy current-awareness resource links to literally thousands of headline news stories each day from over 300 hundred newspapers, broadcast, and online sources. While the homepage offers links to the day's front page stories, unlike some news sites, users can also browse current stories in the business, health, sports, technology, or travel sections, or even by topics such as the olympics, animals, education, fires, aviation, etc.

http://www.allacademic.com/  

This professionally designed academic search engine and index offers a searchable database of scholarly articles and a browse-able list of alphabetized links to online journals all available at no charge on the Web.

http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Ecommstud/resources/scholarsdesktop/index.html 

Iowa Scholars Desktop Resources was designed to help students of the Communication studies Department at the University of Iowa to do their research.  It could help you as well!

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/

The Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE builds digital collections and services while providing information and support to digital library developers worldwide.  In short, this links you to catalogs and collections of images and databases that vary from NASA photos to American medical history to Howard Besser's T-Shirt Database (providing over 530 images collected by library students searchable by title, artist, subject, description, and background).  If you need an illustration or a visual aid this may be a place for you to search.

http://bartleby.com

This site advertises itself as "The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge."  This seems a good web site especially if you are looking for a quotable quote to polish up a presentation and impress your instructor.

TECHNICAL HELP: Citations, Speech performance, etc.

Click here to link to Internet "HOW TO" list of sites/links

Click here to get to a Masterlist of Citation Style Guides (New 5/18/02)

LINKS TO HELP YOU CITE USING APA (American Psychological Association)

http://www.apa.org/journals/webref.html

This site published by APA is probably the best, most complete source of current usage.

http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocAPAReferences.html

This site belongs to the University of Wisconsin and is designed to help students by explaining rules of citation first, and then providing examples.

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/index.html

This site will provide research tools and, most important, citation style manuals for all the major styles.  Click on APA (American Psychological Association) and you can go straight to the discussion of this style.

http://www.ipl.org/teen/aplus/linkciting.htm

This site is more general, it is the Internet Public Library list of links for writing research, and using APA is just one link within an overall orientation to various issues relevant to writing research.

lhttp://www.studentmkt.com/studentmarket/textbooks.html

Locate textbooks and study resources, including music, poof chairs and student loans, at this student-oriented site.

http://www.searchenginewatch.com

This site web masters and web browsers.  It web users, it provides searching tips and news, search engine listings and resources, and explains reviews, ratings and tests for web sites.  

http://www.studyweb.com/links/919.html

This one site will link you to a number of other sites and resources all designed to assist speakers to become more effective in the design and performance of speeches.  It looks like they want you to become a member, however.

http://www.abacon.com/pubspeak/

Allyn & Bacon's website for public speaking has a step-by-step approach to developing speeches beginning with "assess" and ending with "deliver" with links at every separate step.  For example, under assess the visitor is advised to find a topic and given several links to websites and chat sites for ideas. 

http://www.speechtips.com/

This Website provides instructions on planning, writing, and delivering a speech. While the instructions are a basic summary of the sort of advice covered in any high school or college speech class, they will serve as a useful refresher to anyone who needs to make a speech and doesn't have their old textbook handy.

http://www.presentations.com

This site is basically a magazine with ads and articles targeted to professionals who give speeches as part of their job in some way.  I thought it looked rather good from a quick glance around.

http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/previous.htm  

This link connects you to a collection of historical speeches within the History Place web site.  It can take a while to load sometimes.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm

Michael Meidenmuller has created a huge collection of famous speeches--you can get text and/or audio/visual depending upon the circumstances of the speech event.

SUBJECT ORIENTED:  Links to politics, specific issues, statistics, etc.

Looking for a topic? Here are a bevy of possibilities!!

http://websearch.archive.org/katrina/

Internet Archive and many individual contributors created a comprehensive list of websites documenting the historic devastation and massive relief effort due to Hurricane Katrina. The sites were crawled between the dates of September 4 - October 17th. This collection, containing more than 25 million searchable documents, will be preserved by Internet Archive with access to historians, researchers, scholars and the general public

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/

NSA has made use of their archives to put together this rich and interesting site on what really happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/

This site connects you to course syllabi for numerous fields.  If you click on WLH Courses and then on Communication, you can reach a total of 104 courses--as of today--and the resources that they list relevant to their subject.  This could save you a great deal of searching.

http://www.time.com/time/reports/blackhistory/

This site is completely dedicated to Black history, past and present significant figures.  It is supported by Time.com and is attractive, easy to navigate and rich in resources.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/race/060400sack-church.html [lead article 6/4/00]

http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/race/060700holmes-army.html [6/7/00]

http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/race/061400harmon-net.html?0614b [6/14/00]

http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/race/061600leduff-meat.html [6/16/00

This is a series "How Race Is Lived in America.” A team of New York Times reporters and editors spent a year drawing this searching portrait, which will continue over the next several weeks. On the Web, their work is supplemented by audio interviews with people across the country, an opportunity to post your comments about how race has affected your life, discussion groups and expanded photo presentations.  ALONG the left side are all other articles in the series including the most recent--not all of which could be provided here--and you may wish to check out the ARCHIVES along the low end of the left hand strip of links.  Overall, this site is well worth a visit.  .

http://politics.yahoo.com

This is a political news site.  It does not necessarily provide more information than can be found elsewhere on Yahoo, but it has the information clustered all in one place.

http://www.opensecrets.org/home/index.htm

This site describes itelf as follows:  The Center for Responsive Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy. The Center conducts computer-based research on campaign finance issues for the news media, academics, activists, and the public at large. The Center’s work is aimed at creating a more educated voter, an involved citizenry, and a more responsive government.

http://www.cq.com

The Congressional Quarterly.Com looks like an online newspaper for those interested in issues of significance to Washington and politicians. 

http://www.governing.com    

This magazine site has articles and info relevant to governing and e-governing.

http://www.campaignline.com  

This awesome site connects you to articles and issues relevant to campaigning, and provides you with direct links to a vast array of political sites, political search engines and so on.

http://www.nyu.edu/globalbeat

This site is managed by the Center for War, Peace and the News Media at New York University's Dept of Journalism and Mass Communication.  It is a web resource center intended for journalists and editors who cover international issues, as well as others interested in learning more about critical international issues.

http://bubl.ac.uk/link/r/rhetoric.htm

If you are researching a topic within or relevant to the academic domain of rhetoric, this is an amazing resource for it links to an incredible array of other sites, including speech collections, bibliographies, speech tips, etc.

http://www.csmonitor.com/atcsmonitor/specials/athousandyears/index.html

This site explores scientific theories and and discoveries of the last 1000 years.

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/

According to National Communication Association (see CRTNET 1/4/00, #4647) this site was:  "Created in 1982 by Harry Kreisler and produced by the Institute of International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, _Conversations With History_  has featured interviews with over 150 distinguished men and women from all over the world. Users can now read, and in many cases view, a large selection of these interviews online. The interviews can be browsed by year, guest name, profession, or topic. In addition to RealPlayer video segments, many interview pages also include photos and relevant links. The guests and topics span the world and engage an excellent variety of pressing and important issues."

http://capwiz.com/lcv/dbq/vote_info/ 

The League of Conservation Voters web site describes itself as "The Political Voice of the Environmental Movement" and should have a number of useful topics and links for students seeking to address political topics connected to this concern.

 

CAREER CONNECTIONS:  Links to employment info & searching aids

http://www.jobhuntersbible.com

Bolles, author of What Color is Your Parachute, has designed this incredible site to help job hunters of every sort through every imaginable aspect of employment searching, as well as some of the toughest issues of being employed.  His book has been through 31 annual editions & revisions, has sold over 65 million copies, and (according to the preface of the 2001 edition) "in 1995 the Library of Congress pronounced it one of 25 books that have shaped people's lives" (p. xii).

http://www.natcom.org/Instruction/Pathways/5thEd.htm

This site is supported by the National Communication Association and offers lists and descriptions of career possibilities that can be pursued with a Communication Studies degree.  

Also click on Comm Programs to investigate graduate school programs in the country.

http://www.aca.iupui.edu/cq-i/home.html  NEW!!

If Grad School is where you are heading next, this web site can help you search out programs and review what they offer.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/01working-index.html?0205

This links you to "Working," located in the New York Times financial section.  Trends in employment, interviewing, hiring, and on-line classifieds are just a few of the many offerings of this section.

http://roux_j.web.lynchburg.edu/public/classes/index.htm

This is our own Dr. Roux's web site.  If you scroll down to the bottom of his homepage, you can click on the button for JOB SEARCH and it will lead you to PowerPoint advice presentations, and links to job hunting sites.

http://www.depaul.edu/~cmnintrn/

This is DePaul University's Communication Studies Internship web site.  Even though you may not be able to pursue these exact listings, you may nevertheless get some great ideas of places and corporate entities to contact closer to home for similar opportunities.

This is an incredible site developed at Wake Forest University to aid their Communication Studies students with the whole cycle of issues relating to employment, internship, job hunting, resume design and so on.

http://www.students.gov/index2.html  

Access America for Students calls itself a "student gateway to U.S. Governments."  This site offers quick links under topics such as plan your education, pay for your education, career, taxes and so on.

http://www.fortune.com/lists/bestcompanies/

This site is published by Fortune, and lists 100 companies who were willing "to come up with creative ways to keep their employees satisfied" and treated them with "respect and dignity." 80 companies on the list avoided layoffs last year (in the wake of the September 11th tragedy), while 47 reported that they have some sort of official policy barring layoffs.  From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2002.  http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/

http://www.careeroverview.com

This website was suggested to me--probably by their own outreach people--see for yourselves if you find it useful.  Feedback is welcome.