This is a follow up for Professor McNerney’s Public Speaking class.

Recommended database to use for a persuasive speech
· Opposing Viewpoints which is a database that explores today’s controversial social issues. It includes essays offering different points of view, government data, court cases, statistics, organization profiles, newspapers, magazine articles, and links to subject related web sites.
http://www.ncc.commnet.edu/dbs.htm

The toolbox of this database will coach you on how to choose a topic, make an outline, organize your report, judge your information, make a visual chart, etc… for your speech.



For more assistance on how to do use this database, click on
http://www.ncc.commnet.edu/library/opposing.pdf

Other recommended databases might be helpful for your assignment
· Academic OneFile
· Academic Search Premier
· Master File Premier
All these databases can be found under the “General Databases” in NCC Library webpage
http://www.ncc.commnet.edu/dbs.htm

*****Remember if you are doing your work from home, you must go to http://my.commnet.edu/ , click on LIBRARY TAB, select the NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE LINK under MY LIBRARY RESOURCES, and scroll down until you see “GENERAL DATABASES”.*****
Other recommended internet resources to search statistics
· U.S. Census Bureau
· Federal Government Statistics
· National Center for Health Statistics
· USA Government
Last, but not least, handout to cite your sources in MLA Citation

http://www.ncc.commnet.edu/library/citations/MLA.pdf