Advanced Public Speaking
Welcome to the research guide for your advanced course in public speaking. Many of the suggested electronic resources are available linked from here and from the Electronic Resources section of the library home page. You may check out the location and availability of an item in the on-campus collection through the online catalog, Voyager, accessed here or through the library home page.
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Where to find great speeches on the Internet
AmericanRhetoric.com is possibly the best speech bank on the web. This database contains over 5000 full-text, audio and visual versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews and other media events.
The History Place - Great Speeches is an easy to navigate site that can link you quickly to great speeches.
Wikipedia's List of Great Speeches is another easy to navigate site linking you to more great speeches.
Speeches in the on-campus collection
Great Speeches - Each DVD containes at least 5 of the most significant speeches of the last century. Link provides access to online catalog that describes each DVD in more detail.
Where to find great information on controversial issues
Congressional Digest Debates provides access to a variety of scholarly sources that provide both sides to a number of controversial issues.
Rhetoric resources available online
Aristotle's rhetoric in hypertext by Lee Honeycutt - This online version of Aristotle's Rhetoric is based on the translation by the noted classical scholar, W. Rhys Roberts. Effort was made to preserve the original style of Roberts' print edition with footnotes and parenthetical Greek phrasings were omitted.
Meg Zulick's rhetoric links is a primary source website for use as a resource in rhetoric course work.
Forest of rhetoric is a guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric. Sometimes it is difficult to see the forest (the big picture) of rhetoric because of the trees (the hundreds of Greek and Latin terms naming figures of speech, etc.) within rhetoric.
Ross Scaife's glossary of rhetorical terms is an excellent, fairly comprehensive source of necessary rhetorical terms.
Dale Sullivan's rhetoric notes
International Society for the History of Rhetoric
Voice of the Shuttle provides a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that respects the established humanities disciplines and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences through new digital media.
Primary Texts online
MIT International Classics Archive
Bringing the wisdom of the classics to the Internet since 1994Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.
UPenn Online provides access to a variety of online classics.
Cicero Online provides access to a variety resources on Cicero, including writings, background, and biography.
Additional suggested Internet resources
Seneca speaks to Motormouth Debaters
Created: Tallmon/Thornhill, 2011. Reviewed, Tallmon/Thornhill 2012.
