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What's on This Page

Statistical Information

Look for Web sites

Speech Anxiety

Using Visual Aids

Delivery

Effective PowerPoints

Style Manuals

How to Get to This Page on the Internet 


 

 

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Go to the Web page for this class:

  1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
  2. Click on Internet Links
  3. Click on Communication
  4. Scroll down and under Course-Related Materials, click on COMM 10, Communication Process , S. Gentile.
  5. Go to Favorites (top toolbar), then click on Add, then click Add. Now, you'll be able to go back to this page easily while you're in the classroom by clicking on Favorites.
Find Statistical information 

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

General statistical information about the United States 
Go to the Statistics page under the library's Internet Links for more choices.
 
More specialized statistical resources  
----Print ---- 
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 

----Online---- 
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. Another good source is Regional Indicators Website.

Sometimes it's hard to find the statistics you need. Email me if you're stuck: Topsy at tosmalle@cabrillo.edu
Look for Web sites

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!

Getting to a list of Internet Search Engines

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Search the Internet

Tired of Googling? Try Ask.com
And Librarians' Internet Index gives you access to Web sites selected by librarians -- Web sites you can trust!!

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

Using visual aids
Delivery

Generally on delivery
Effective PowerPoint Presentations
Style manuals

When you use one of the library's databases, look for where you can click and get an already formatted citation that you can copy and paste.

If you need a citation for a book, look it up in WorldCat.org, and then click to cite it:

For more information about citation styles, do this: from the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Internet Links On the next screen, click on Style Guides

How to Get to This Page on the Internet 
  1. Go to 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 10, Communication Process, S. Gentile

 

S. Gentile and T. N. Smalley
11/08