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Public Speaking: Online Resources

This guide will help speech students with tips and tricks on presenting speeches and projects to an audience.

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Famous Speeches

Famous Presidential Speeches 

List of speeches by the Presidents of the United States

 

Speeches on Social Justice 

List of speeches on Social Justice

 

American Rhetoric: Movie speeches 

Speeches from Movies

 

Ted Talks 

Videos

 

Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World 

a non-profit project, sponsored by Sweet Briar College, dedicated to preserving and creating access to speeches by inspirational, influential and contemporary, women from around the world. It only includes transcripts for included speeches.

 

History Channel: Famous Speeches & Audio

Includes video and audio for famous speeches on a variety of topics.

 

Vital Speeches of the Day

Vital Speeches of the Day is a monthly magazine that presents speeches and other public addresses in full.

 

The History Place

Great Speeches Collection

 

Voices of Democracy

Dedicated to "the study of great speeches and public debates." Speeches are organized into topics that include Citizenship & Civic Identity, Civil Rights, Freedom of Speech, and Social & Economic Justice. Each speech transcript is accompanied by an interpretive essay, a list of suggested resources, and teaching-learning materials

 

Commencement Speeches 

Humanity.org.
Over 35 speeches from 1936-

 

History Place: Great Speeches
List of speeches with links to text

 

Presidential Speech Archive

 Miller Center of Public Affairs. University of Virginia.
Full text of selected U.S. presidential speeches from George Washington to the present. Audio available for some of the more recent ones.

 

The Art of Manliness: 35 Greatest Speeches in History

Additional Resources

Add visual aids and props to enhance your message, clarify the meaning of your words, target the emotions of your audience, and/or show what words fail to clearly describe. Use props to give audience a visual of what you are describing

10 Public Speaking Tips

From Purdue University, this is a quick list of tips for students.

 

How To Speak by Patrick Winston (video) - MIT OpenCourseWare

 

Public Speaking Tips 

Public speaking tips from Toastmasters

 

Better Public Speaking: Becoming a Confident, Compelling Speaker 

Public Speaking tips

The Public Speaking Project 

This website offers an assortment of virtual tools to help users improve their public speaking skills.

 

Writing Commons 

Improve your writing today. Get everything you to need to know about writing in one place.

 

BookBoon 

Free ebooks online. Need to create an free account.

 

National Speakers Association

The National Speakers Association is one of the foremost sources on speaking efficiently and find ways to further harness your skill set.

 

Public Speaking and Presentations: Tips for Success 

This resource includes tips and suggestions for improving your public speaking skills.

 

Presentation Zen

If you’re looking for some inspiration to take your presentations to the next level, Presentation Zen is a great resource. You can read articles and watch videos that cover everything from how to be a better storyteller to improving your visual aids.

 

Six Minutes Speaking and Presentation Skills: Your guide to be a confident and effective speaker 

information on public speaking

 

Speech Communication Resource Center 

links on communication from cengage learning

 

ComWeb MegaSearch

Site provides one-stop access to relevant communication, journalism, speech, rhetoric-related websites.

 

University of Iowa Communication Studies. Index of Online Resources

Link to categories such as journalism and mass communication, cultural studies, rhetorical studies, TV, and radio.

 

Voice of the Shuttle: Media Studies Page, University of California, Santa Barbara

Link to sites relating to internet broadcast media, media theory & history, television and journalism.

 

National Association of Broadcasters

 

Debatepedia

Debatepedia is the Wikipedia of debates - an encyclopedia of pro and con arguments and quotes on critical issues. A project of the 501c3 non-profit International Debate Education Association (IDEA), Debatepedia utilizes the same wiki technology powering Wikipedia to centralize arguments and quotes found in editorials, op-eds, political statements, and books into comprehensive pro/con articles. 

Online Resources on Public Speaking

Online Resources on Public Speaking

OER Resources

Exploring Public Speaking: 4th Edition this book is useful in presenting the topics of PowerPoint, audience responsiveness, ethics in public speaking, special occasion speeches, and structure of speeches.

 

Introduction to Public Speaking Virtual textbook on Public Speaking

 

Communication Credentials 7 C’s of Communication

 

Conveying important information concisely in public speaking and interviews This public speaking lesson focuses on presenting and conveying important information, details, facts, and opinions in a concise manner.

 

Fundamentals of Public Speaking online textbook

 

Introduction to Public Communication Introduction to Public Communication is an open textbook created specifically for ISU's COMM 101 course. A guiding team of Communication instructors compiled content from other open sources, and wrote original content to complete this text.

 

Planning & Presenting Effectively This seminar will focus on presenting clear and concise information to an intended audience.

 

Principles of Public Speaking The course is an introduction to the preparation and delivery of oral presentations in an extemporaneous style. Emphasis is on ethical research, critical and logical analysis, and organization of informative and persuasive presentations.

 

COMM101: Public Speaking This course systematically examines the elements of an effective speech and goes through an element-by-element examination of the essentials of public speaking, while also identifying traits of the individual speaker and how they affect preparation and presentation.

 

Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speakingfeatures two key themes. First it focuses on helping students become more seasoned and polished public speakers, and second is its emphasis on ethics in communication.

 

Introduction to Communication course from lumenlearning

 

Speeches and speech-making Course on speeches

 

Communication in the Real World Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies overviews the time-tested conceptual foundations of the field, while incorporating the latest research and cutting-edge applications of these basics. Each chapter will include timely, concrete, and real-life examples of communication concepts in action.

 

Business Communication for Success Business Communication for Success (BCS) provides a comprehensive, integrated approach to the study and application of written and oral business communication to serve both student and professor.

 

Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy is a contemporary, interdisciplinary public speaking textbook that fuses rhetoric, critical/cultural studies, and performance to offer an up-to-date resource for students.

 

Informed Arguments: A Guide to Writing and Research The textbook offers a thorough discussion of the writing process and the research process.

 

Arguing Using Critical Thinking by Jim Marteney (2020): LA Valley College/ASCC OERI. Critical thinking is a series learned skills. In each chapter of this book you will find a variety of skills that will help you improve your thinking and argumentative ability. As you improve, you will grow into a more confident person being more in charge of your world and the decisions you make.

 

Writing for Strategic Communication Industries Good writing skills are important in today’s competitive work environment. This is especially the case for communication-related professions such as public relations, brand communication, journalism, and marketing.

 

Public Speaking 

Course from lumen Learning

 

Boundless Communications 

Open course materials and book

 

Writing & Research in the Disciplines 

open textbook

 

Public Speaking: Practice and Ethics

This is another option for a public speaking textbook.

 

Speech and Debate 

Links to help with public speaking

 

introduction to public speaking 

textbook

 

The Public Speaking Project
The Public Speaking Project “offers an assortment of virtual tools to help users improve their public speaking skills. A variety of speech professionals who are dedicated to providing free and low cost instructional materials contribute their original work” to the virtual textbook, classroom, and faculty lounge.

 

Speech Analysis Paper Assignment (La Guardia Community College)
“This assignment was used in a Public Speaking course where students learned to build a variety of public speeches. The assignment aims to enable students to make connections to experience, to reflect and self-asses their learning

 

Public Speaking

The purpose of this course is to systematically examine the elements and factors which result in an effective speech

 

Public Speaking Openstax Open Course 

Description:Assists students in developing oral communication skills. Classroom practice, the Internet, e-mail, community interactions, and other resources support learning and yield enhanced confidence and competence.

 

Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking (Harvard/edX)

This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive writing and speech. In it, you will learn to construct and defend compelling arguments, a crucial skill in many settings. We will be using selected speeches from prominent twentieth-century Americans -- including Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, Margaret Chase Smith, Ronald Reagan, and more -- to explore and analyze rhetorical structure and style.

 

Elements of Public Speaking 

public speaking textbook

 

ORAT!O - Speaking with Confidence

ORAT!O is an open resources for public speaking courses. Chapters are organized by weekly along with videos covering various aspects of public speaking.

 

Advanced Public Speaking

 

Exploring Public Speaking - 4th Edition