Communication Information and Resources:

• Political Babble Generator - Combines Clinton and Gingrich lines at random
• Quality Control - Twenty-two reasons to hire a speech writer, or to can the one you've got.
• Shakespeare - Collected works
• Southern States Communication Association - Long list of resources, including Debate Research Haven.


Here are some Sample Speeches (Audio and Video Archives)
• Douglass Archives of American Public Address
• Historic Audio (Speech) Archives
• Andrew Grove Speeches (Intel)
• Keynote Address - Bill Gates (COMDEX '96) "Information at Your Fingertips: A Challenge for the PC Industry"

• THOR+: The Virtual Reference Desk - For Thousand of Sources. This is an excellent site that is maintained by The Libraries of Purdue University
• Web Pages of US universities - Usually a link of student life or campus life of similar links will provide information about campus life such as cafeteria, parking, busses, housing, and other services.
• Web Pages of universities and community colleges in the US - More Higher Education Sites.
• Colleges & Universities' E-Mail Addresses & Web Pages
• OSSHE Historical & Cultural Atlas
• The U.S. Census Bureau
• Tiger Mapping Service
• U.S. Government: Executive / Legislative / Judicial / State & Local
• United States Code
• The 'Lectric Law Library
• The White House
• THOMAS: Legislative Information
• U.S. House Of Representatives and U.S. Senate
• US Supreme Court
• Historical and Political Documents
• European Union
• Online Dictionaries
• Roget's Thesaurus (Searchable)
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary
• Financial Aid Directories - All of your Financial Aid Needs.

• EBSCOHost - For magazine and journal articles. Full text for many articles is in the database.
• LEXIS-NEXIS - Full text newspaper articles, and more.
• CIC's Electronic Journals
• Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters
• CARL Home Page
• Journal of the American Medical Association (searchable, includes abstracts)
• Accufind: Jump to Search
• New Media Index - Find out the latest news at Truman and check out past issues in the Morgue
• CNN Interactive
• The Newsroom
• USA Daily Newspapers on the Web
• The Times (Britain)
• Online Newspapers
• Lonely Planet Online
• Internet World Online
• USIA: Daily Washington File
• Welcome to Congressional Quarterly

• Writer's Block - Deals with technical writing and the business of documentation.
• Writers' Resources on the Web - You couldn't find it on this site? Bet you find it on Debbie's.
• The Elements of Style
• Myths and Legends
• ResearchPaper.Com
• The Elements of Style
• APA Publication Manual Crib Sheet
• John Hewitt's Writing Resource Center - Plenty of good advice here on everything from writer's block to getting published.

• The Discovery Channel
• Native American Indian Resources
• NativeWeb - A comprehensive list of "official" Native American sites useful for conducting research for having to do with Native Americans.
• The Smithsonian Institution
• National Gallery of Art
• Rainforest Action Network
• National Geographic
• Life Over Time
• The Nine Planets
• N.A.S.A.
• Bill Nye The Science Guy
• Critical Evaluation Skills - What to look for when you are visiting sites.

• Reference.Com - Look up newsgroup articles, etc.

• Alta Vista A full-text search engine - search keywords, phrases, or URLs. Includes some of the best search options of any engine (there is also an advanced query).
Search the Web Usenet Display in Standard Form in Compact Form in Detailed Form

• Excite Search A full-text search engine - search for keywords, phrases, concepts. Better at turning up relevant links than some engines. Results can be limited to reviewed sites and Usenet.

Where: World Wide Web Excite Web Site Reviews Usenet Newsgroups Usenet Classifieds
• HotBot A full-text search engine - search keywords, phrases, or URLs (URL search more restrictive than AltaVista). Seems to have the most recently updated database of Web and Usenet pages.
Search for:
Look for all the words any of the words the phrase the person the URL

• InfoSeek A newly revised full-text search engine - search keywords, phrases, or URLs. Click on InfoSeek (above) to use their new types of queries. Simple searches can be done from the form below.

Source: All Web pages Usenet Newsgroups
• Lycos An abstract-based search engine (it considers the first lines of a document) - search key words.


• WebCrawler A full-text search engine - search keywords. Easy to use. Searches can be limited to "WebCrawler Select," sites that have been reviewed by the staff.

Hits: 10 25 100 500
• Yahoo An engine that searches primarily Web sites that have been submitted by Webmasters and categorized by the Yahoo staff. Search keywords. A good place to start. Output is not prioritized, so you may have to look through a number of hits for what you're actually after.

Hits: 25 100 200 300
• DejaNews - UseNet only - Provides latest contributions to newsgroups.

Not enough?
Head over to SEARCH.COM, C-Net's search page compilation, sort of like having a 300-button remote control.