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Informative Speech Outline Assessment What's on this Page Your Informative Speech: Don't Yet Have a Topic? Giving the Speech Other Stuff Finishing up Transfer an Image
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Your speech is to be a informative one. Having trouble thinking of a topic? Here are some helpful sites to explore!
Explore CQ Researcher for background information for your informative speech.. Each issue covers a single topic of current political or social interest. Topics with international interest are also covered, e.g., "oceans in crisis." In 20 to 30 pages, major aspects of the topic are outlined, along with background information and a description of the current situation.
Search for coverage of your topic. If you still don't have a topic in mind, pick one of the recent reports. Make notes here about what you find. You may have to disable a popup blocker to bring up the CQ Researcher article. If you don't know how to do that, ask! Note that you can
email these articles to yourself -- click on You can also click to cite them!! Click on What did you find?
Other good resources for background information about many topics
If you have a Santa Cruz Public Library card, you might want to use their Opposing Viewpoints database.
Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage and
click on Library Catalog. There
is a link to the Cabrillo College Library homepage at the top of
this page.
The Library provides access to many online databases. The one you will use most, probably, is Academic Search Premier -- it provides indexing for about 8,000 periodicals, and full text articles for just over half of those for the last 15 years or so!
Use Academic Search Premier to identify at least one periodical article on your topic. From the results list, click on the article title to get to the screen with more information.
When you have the article on your screen, you can print, email, or cite it! What a deal!
Use ProQuest Newspapers (includes NY Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor)
Again, the Advanced Search mode offers more options. Try it!
Again: there's
an email feature
Use CREDO Reference to search 350 dictionaries and specialized encyclopedias from one search interface. Incredible. From the library homepage, select Full Text Articles. Under Encyclopedias/Background information, select CREDO Reference. Here's a sample search:
Another good source for statistics is RAND
California (California and U.S. Statistics) From the library
homepage, select Full Text Articles. Under Social
Sciences, select RAND California. Explore what's on the Statistics Resources page under the library's Internet Links for more choices.
It's one thing for you to have a reference to a URL from your textbook or instructor. It's quite another thing for you to venture out to find a good Web site on your own. Evaluation is important! Here is a search using Google's Web search. Notice that Google is telling you with the results that there are also images, news stories, and books available that respond to the search parameters.
You can use Advanced Search to limit by date, and whether you can read the whole book.  Getting to a list of Internet Search Engines
Search for Web sites that would be useful to researching about some of topic of interest to you. Make
notes below about 3 quality Web sites you find.
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You're probably aware that the Web now has videos galore. There are a lot of outrageous ones, of course. But, there are bunches of good ones, too. And you should know about this growing resource. The main sources of videos are: Blinkx.com (includes a lot of stuff from TV) || Google Videos (more dependable quality than YouTube) || YouTube How do you reference your resources?
Remember that many of the databases you use offer you access to citations with a single click -- EBSCOhost databases, CQ Researcher, Proquest Newspapers, for example. For books, and even periodical articles, try Worldcat.org. Look up something, and then click Cite this Item. Amazing!! There's also EasyBib.com The Web is rich in images, and it's useful to know how to capture an image and transfer it to a Word document. Go to one of these sources of photos on the Web (Corbis is lots of fun!) and select an image. If you don't know how to do this in your sleep, go through these steps: Go to Corbis.com or Ditto.com. Here's how to do the transfer:
Your image is there, in your Word document. Word is not a picture editor like Photoshop. You can make the image larger or smaller, but you often end up with distortions, especially as you stretch it to enlarge it. You can write next to and below the image. Putting text around the image would take another lesson. But, at least your image is there, and you can write text near it, commenting on it. If you
copy and include the image in something you write, the origin
of the image should be acknowledged. At the minimum, give
the title of the Web site and the complete URL (you can just
copy and paste the URL into your Word document). How to Get to This Page on the Internet
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