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CMS 110: Speech Communication / CMS 120: Public Speaking

Keywords

Here are some keywords to use in your searches. Remember to use terms that will narrow your search!

  • Advertising
  • Broadcast journalism
  • Business communication
  • Campaign design and management
  • Communication
  • Communication theory
  • Conflict management
  • Conflict resolution
  • Conversation analysis
  • Copywriting
  • Crisis communication
  • Criticism
  • Culture
  • Debates or debating
  • Deception
  • Digital communication
  • Discourse
  • Ethical and unethical communication
  • Health communication
  • Intercultural communication
  • Information speeches
  • Interpersonal communication
  • Interpersonal relations
  • Interpretation
  • Investigative journalism
  • Journalism ethics
  • Language
  • Magazine and feature writing
  • Marketing communication
  • Mass media
  • Media consumption
  • Media literacy
  • Media studies
  • Media portrayals or representations
  • Narrative communication
  • New media journalism
  • News reporting
  • Oral History
  • Oratory
  • Organizational communication
  • Persuasion and social influence
  • Persuasive speeches
  • Photojournalism
  • Political communication
  • Popular culture
  • Professional communication practices
  • Public relations
  • Radio and television
  • Relational communication
  • Rhetoric
  • Rhetoric argumentation
  • Rhetoric strategy
  • Rhetoric style
  • Semantics
  • Small groups
  • Social media communication
  • Speeches
  • Storytelling and narration
  • Telecommunications
  • Verbal and nonverbal communication
  • Virtual reality and presence

Searching Individual Current Issues Databases

While the Discovery search allows you to search, simultaneously, many of the databases to which the library subscribes, there are times when you might want to search one database at a time such as one of the databases focused especially on current controversial topics. Articles found in the databases below, CQ Researcher and Opposing VIewpoints in Context, can be used for both your informative and persuasive speeches. 

Note that the only opinionated, or non-objective, section in a CQ Researcher article is the ProCon page in which two experts answer a controversial question posed by the reporter-author of the larger report. In the Opposing Viewpoints database, the Viewpoint Essays include essays that will require critical reading on the part of you, the student. Since these are opinionated essays, you will need to critically evaluate how well the viewpoint is supported by sources used by the author. You may also want to research the author for any bias. Nevertheless, the two databases provide a great starting point for researching current issues topics and exploring potential ways to narrow and focus a topic. Other databases may be helpful for your research as well. Start with CQ Researcher and Opposing Viewpoints, then expand your search.

Library Journals & Magazines

EBSCO Discovery Search Tutorial

Video Credit: EBSCO Tutorials, Sep 19, 2023.