Public Speaking Resources

http://www.abacon.com/pubspeak/
Allyn & Bacon's companion web site to their public speaking textbooks contains useful information on how to assess, analyze, research, organize, and deliver a speech.

http://careerplanning.about.com/od/presentations/Public_Speaking.htm
Learn how to make effective presentations. Public speaking is difficult unless you know what you're doing. You'll find resources that will help you get the skills you need to make speeches, present reports, and even participate in taped interviews.

http://www.toastmasters.org/
Toastmasters International's web site for public speaking.

How-to, demonstration speeches:

http://www.google.com
Goggle.com: type your term and the word tutorial (i.e. scrapbooking tutorial)

http://www.ehow.com/list_1043.html
“e.How offers clear instructions on how to do (just about) everything.” An extensive directory of step by step instructions on a variety of topics.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/
How Stuff Works site explains through diagrams and instructions how stuff works.

Informative or Persuasive topics:

http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Hot/hotindex.htm
Hot Paper Topics. A list of topics with links to online resources complied by the staff of the O'Keefe Library, St. Ambrose University. Contemporary social issues suitable for informative or persuasive speeches.

http://infodome.sdsu.edu/research/guides/hot/supersites.shtml
Hot Topics on the Web and Hot Topics Supersites offer lists of topics and links to online resources compiled by the librarians of San Diego State University.

http://library.louisville.edu/government/news/otherlinks/otherlinks.html
Hot Topics with links to government resources compiled by the librarians of the University of Louisville.

http://www.multcolib.org/homework/sochc.html#censor
Multnomah County Public Library provides a list of contemporary social issues and links to online resources for opposing and supporting viewpoints.

http://www.leeogle.org/byron/bhs/library/persuasion.htm
Persuasive topics compiled by Susan O’Neil, Byron High School librarian.

http://faculty.cinstate.cc.oh.us/gesellsc/publicspeaking/topics.html
Public Speaking Topics: Informative and Persuasive topics compiled by Clara Gisell-Streeter, Instructor of Speech at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College.

http://www.school.za/teachers/index.htm
Speech and Oral Topics: “These are some general ideas to use as starting points in trying to identify a topic for speeches or orals. This site is a collection of useful web links put together by Peta Ward, former Librarian of Hilton College.”

http://www.hawaii.edu/mauispeech/html/infotopichelp.html
Topic Selection for Informative and How-To speeches. An extensive list of topics compiled by the University of Hawai'i Maui Community College Speech Department.