LibGuides: CMST 2800: Advanced Public Communication: Home

Welcome

This guide is for students in the CMST 2800: Advanced Public Communication course. These resources were recommended by your instructor.

Library Workshop Materials:

Worksheet
a source organizer that you can edit

RADAR Handout PDF

Evaluating Sources: Using the RADAR Framework
used by first-year students in Rhetorical Arts
Evaluate your news using IMVAIN
used by Journalism and Media Studies

Pro Con Debate Topics

CQ Researcher Plus Archive This link opens in a new window
Subjects: MANY
Description: General research database from SAGE Publications containing full text. Weekly publication covers the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summary reports, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more.
Contents: Trade/Professional Articles; Bibliographies; Summary reports
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
Subjects: MANY
Description: General research database from Gale Cengage Learning containing full text information about controversial social issues.
Contents: Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Newspapers; Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Magazines; Primary Sources; Opinion Pieces

ProCon.Org
The website's mission is to promote critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, primarily pro-con format.
AllSides.com
Latest news across the political spectrum on a large number of political topics and issues.

Video: Using CQ Researcher & Opposing Viewpoints

Speech & Debate Resources

Background Information

Reference books, whether in paper or online, can give background and depth, as well as definitions, basic knowledge, scope of the topic area, important people and statistics, and some citations to get you started. (CQ Researcher and Opposing Viewpoints are helpful too)

Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
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Subjects: MANY
Description: General e-book collection from Gale Cengage Learning containing full text.
Contents: eBooks; Encyclopedias.
SAGE Knowledge This link opens in a new window
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Subjects: MANY
Description: General e-book collection from SAGE Publications containing full text of scholarly books, encyclopedias, and handbooks. It covers various areas of the social sciences.
Contents: eBooks.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
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Subjects: MANY
Description: General e-book collection containing full text.
Contents: E-books; Bibliographies
Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
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Subjects: MANY
Description: General encyclopedia containing full text.
Contents: E-books; Encyclopedias