Speech & Communication

Reference and Circulating Books Electronic Books Periodicals Websites Subject Headings Additional Materials

Reference and Circulating Books:

The MPC Library uses the Library of Congress Classification System (LC System) to organize its collections. Books about Speech & Communication are shelved in the P section.
Below are the subclasses:
P 87 – 96 Communication. Mass Media
P 99.5 – 99.6 Nonverbal Communication

For a more detailed information about these subclasses, go to http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco

Reference books are located on the main (second) floor, and circulating books are located on the third floor.

Electronic Books:

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Argument and Audience: Presenting Debates in Public Settings ebooks

Careers in Communications ebooks

The Code of the Debater: Introduction to Policy Debating ebooks

Critiquing Free Speech: First Amendment Theory and the Challenge of Interdisciplinarity ebooks

Daniel Webster and the Oratory of Civil Religion ebooks

The Debatabase Book: a Must-Have Guide for Successful Debate ebooks

Influencing Through Argument ebooks

Many Sides: Debate Across the Curriculum ebooks

New Information Revolution: A Reference Handbook ebooks

Philosophy and Rhetoric ebooks

Rhetoric ebooks

Speaking, Listening and Understanding: Debate for Non-English Speakers ebooks

Teacher's Guide for Discovering the World Through Debate ebooks

Periodicals:

Websites:

Benton Foundation: Communications in the Public Interest	http://www.benton.org/
Communication Resource Center for Students from Cengage Learning	http://college.cengage.com/communication/resources/ students/public/pubspeak_res_links.html
Free Speech Movement digital archive	http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/FSM/
First Amendment Center	http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/
History Channel (search for speeches)	http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/
Institute for Global Communications	http://www.igc.org/
Paley Center for Media	http://www.paleycenter.org
Real Clear Politics Transcripts of Speeches	http://realclearpolitics.com/transcripts_speeches
Speech & Transcript Center	http://www.freepint.com/gary/speech.htm

Subject Headings:

Debates and Debating

Elocution

Political Oratory

Rhetoric

Speeches, addresses, tec. (subdivided with national adjective, e.g. "Speeches, addresses, etc. Greek"

Speechwriters

Storytelling

Verbal Communication

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