Communication Web Resource Links

Face-to-Face Communication

Toastmasters International
Toastmasters is the best way to improve your communication skills. Lose your fears of public speaking and learn skills that will help you be more successful in whatever path you've chosen in life.

South-Central Texas Toastmasters International District 55
Toastmasters International in South-Central Texas: Developing communication and leadership skills in Austin, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, the Rio Grande Valley, the Coastal Plains and the Texas Hill Country.

Pelican Patter
District 68 Newsletter: Serving Toastmasters in Louisiana, Texas & Mississippi

Professional Listings

The Passionate Speaker
Michael Landrum has over thirty-five years experience as a spokesperson, speaker, presenter and master of ceremonies.

Academy for Professional Speaking
The Academy for Professional Speaking is a community of experts who want to turn their passion and talent for public speaking into a successful career. The Academy is associated with the National Speakers Association. NSA, founded in 1973, is now a community of 4,000 professional speakers who continue to pursue higher levels in their careers.

Association of Independent Information Professionals
Since 1987 the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP) has sought to explain the role of independent information professionals and to provide a forum for information professionals to meet and exchange views.

Gove-Siebold Group (Fee Paid Professional Speaker)
Gove-Siebold Group, Inc trains, coaches, and consults individuals and organizations in professional communication and performance skills of world-class performers.

Speaking Biz Success
Burt Dubin Speaking Success System can help you become a high-paid professional speaker

Electronic communication

Writing Effective Email
This document offers 10 tips to help you write effective professional e-mails.

A Beginners Guide to Effective Email
Email is cheaper and faster than a letter, less intrusive than a phone call, less hassle than a FAX.

Intercultural communication

Intercultural Communication
Various Internet information resources

Culture Bump
This site is about communicating beyond culture in interpersonal relationships.

General Writing

Write 101.com
All about writing...includes weekly writing newsletter

101 Best Sites for Writers: WritersDigest Choices

101 Course Offerings: Free Courses for Writers

Guide to Grammar and Writing : Helpful general site on writing

iTools: General Internet tools with some good general research sources

Common Problems in Scholarly Writing Seen in Graduate Student Papers

Guidelines to Average Manuscript Lengths

Plagiarism

Plagiary brings together the various strands of scholarship which already exist on the subject, and to create a forum for discussion across disciplinary boundaries, the new scholarly journal Plagiary.

Words

Merriam-Webster Online: Word look-up along with some fun stuff...add your own word to the dictionary.

Banished Words: For the past 30 years, Lake Superior State University releases an annual List of Words and Phrases Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness

Academic Writing

Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL): A great on-line writing center, with extensive links

LEO : St. Cloud State University/ Literacy Education Online-General Writing Tips

Common Problems in Scholarly Writing Seen in Graduate Student Papers

English Usage, Style, & Composition: Collection of reference works including American Heritage, Strunk & White, Fowler's King's English, and other public-domain works

Grammar Resources on the Web — University of Chicago Writing Program's annotated links to useful Web sites on grammar and style

APA Style Web Site:    American Psychological Association • 750 First Street, NE • Washington, DC.

The Writing Center, The University of Wisconsin-Madison: APA documentation

Fun learning tools

Dr. Brent Muirhead's APA Jeopardy Game

Dr. Rose van Es' APA Research Jeopardy Game

Rubric

How to create a rubric

 

 

 

Richard Thomas Bothel
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