Cabrillo College Library

Vicki Fabbri's Web page

What's on This Page

Background Info

Find Books

Find Periodical Articles 

Find Newspaper Articles 

Other Viewpoints

Statistical Information 

Web Search

Style Manuals

Speech Anxiety

Delivery

Using Visual Aids

PowerPoint Tips

Videos

Transfer Images

Making an Argument

Fallacies

Share Your Thoughts

Get to This Internet Page

 

 


 

COMM 1

 

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Before we get started

  1. Go to the page for this class -- click on Internet Links, then select Communication, then scroll down and under Course-Related Materials, click on COMM 1, Public Speaking, V. Fabbri.
  2. Go to Favorites -> Add.. Now, you'll be able to go back to this page easily by click on Favorites.
Background information

CQ Researcher   Each weekly 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 25 pages, major aspects of the topic are outlined, along with background information and a description of the current situation. 
  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down on left)
  3. Under General (top left) click on CQ Researcher (If you come in from off campus, you'll be asked for your library card number.)

Search for coverage of your topic. If you don't have a topic in mind, pick one from the recent reports. Make notes here about what you find. Note that you can email these articles to yourself (email button is at the top right of the Web page).

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Other good resources

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You might also like to try these:

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Find Books

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.
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Electronic Books -- The library has access to about 15,000 electronic books, called eBooks. When you are off campus, you just need to type in your library card number. To search the eBooks:

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Full Text Articles
  3. Under General (top left), click on NetLibrary E-Books.
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Find Periodical Articles 

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!
  1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Full Text Articles.
  2. Under General, click to go to Academic Search Premier
  3. On the next screen, click on . With the Advanced search screen, you can most efficiently search more than one term at a time.
  4. Click on the little box next to the word Full text  to limit your search to fulltext articles on the database.
  5. Type in your search terms and hit .

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.  

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Periodical title (look where the screen says Source) 

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For fun, go back to Academic Search Premier, and try a Visual Search. Wow!!

There is a nifty email feature.  Once your article is on your screen, click on E-mail towards the top of the screen.

Find Newspaper Articles -- National Newspapers 

Use ProQuest Newspapers (NY Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and  Christian Science Monitor) 
  1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Full Text Articles  
  2. Under News (over on right), click on Proquest Newspapers

Again, the Advanced Search mode offers more options. Try it!

Find an article on your topic.

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Again: there's an email feature -- how cool

Explore Other Viewpoints 
  • AlterNet <http://www.alternet.org/> From the Institute for Alternative Journalism. 
  • Newspapers <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu/depts/news.html> from around the world. For many topics, reading news stories written in a country other than the United States will help you understand other dynamics associated with the topic.
Statistical Information 

There are many statistical resources you can use, online and in print.  It will be helpful to gain some experience with both. 

RAND California (California and U.S. Statistics) From the library homepage, select Full Text Articles. Under Social Sciences, select RAND California.

General statistical information about the United States 
Print source:  Statistical Abstract of the United States   location:  ref HA202.U5 
Online source:  U.S. Census Bureau    <http://www.census.gov/>
 
More specialized statistical resources  
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Crime in the United States  ref HV7776787.A3 1996 
Generation X: The Young Adult Market  ref HC110.C6M544 1997 
Statistical Abstract of the World   ref HA154.S83 1994 
Statistical Forecasts of the United States  ref HC106.8.S7357 1993 
Statistical Handbook on Adolescents in America  ref. HQ796.S8237 1996 
Statistical Handbook on Violence in America  ref HN90.V5S833 1996 
Statistical Record of Women Worldwide  ref HQ1150.S73 1991 

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CLIKS Online provides regional profiles, graphs, maps and raw data on topics related to children. Want rates of teenage pregnancy by county -- that's here! Similar information at the state and national level is available at KidsCount.
Bureau of Justice Statistics 
Bureau of Labor Statistics 
Bureau of Transportation Statistics 
National Center for Health Statistics 

Or go to the Statistics page under the library's Internet Links for more choices.

Look for Web Sites on Your Own

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 for using Google's Web search, but Google tells you, with the results, that there are also books available that respond to the search parameters.

Or, search Google Books on your own. URL is http://books.google.com. Here's a sample search:

Getting to a list of Internet Search Engines

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Search the Internet
  3. Click on 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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A little bit tired of Google? Want to try something else? Go to Grokker.com. Search results are presented in a concept mapping format. If you use Ask.com or Exalead.com, the search results screen will suggest ways you can narrow and broaden your topic!

 

Style Manuals

How do you reference your resources?

  1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Internet Links
  2. On the next screen, click on Style Guides
Speech anxiety

"The only difference between the pros and the novices is that the pros have trained the butterflies to fly in formation." - Edwin Newman

Did you pick up one or two pieces of good advice? What?

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Delivery
  1. Generally on delivery
  2. Monroe's Motivated Delivery

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Using Visual Aids

Did you pick up one or two pieces of good advice? What?

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Effective PowerPoint Presentations

Explore these for advice on making effective PowerPoint presentations. Your notes:

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Videos

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:

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Transfer an Image from the Web into a Word Document

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.

Go to corbis.com or ditto.com. Here's how to do the transfer:
  1. From the Start menu, bring up Word
  2. Go back to Corbis or ditto where your image is. Right click on the image. Scroll down to Copy
  3. Go back to your Word document. Position your cursor to where you want your image to be. Paste the image (File -> Paste; or use Ctrl V)
  4. Under (or near) the image, type the word Source, and include the title of the Web site where you got the image and its URL.

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).

Making an argument
Fallacies

Please tell us what you thought of this Web exercise. Thanks.

How to Get to This Page on the Internet 
  1. Be on the Cabrillo College Library homepage    <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
  2. Click on Internet Links
  3. Go to Communication
  4. Under Course-Related Materials, click on COMM 1, Public Speaking, V. Fabbri

 

V. Fabbri and T. N. Smalley
10/07