CMST 220 Public Speaking

This guide is to help you find good topics and evidence for your Informative or Persuasive/Position speeches in CMST& 220: Public Speaking.

What's in this Guide

This guide was created to help CMST 220 students incorporate research into their informative and argumentative speeches by evaluating sources, developing a research topic, finding credible information, and citing sources.  It includes research tools from the main Green River College Holman Library Website that are most useful to CMST students.

How to Use this Guide:

  • Option A: Navigate the guide by using the library worksheet provided by the librarian that is unique to your class

  • Option B: Navigate by starting at the top tab and clicking each tab in succession. The guide is structured to walk you through the steps and skills needed for a typical research process.

  • Option C: Click on specific tabs to locate the targeted info and research tools that you need

Minister of Energy Tina Joemat-Pettersson delivers her speech during the State of the Nation Address speech debate in the National assembly in Parliament, Cape Town.  She is standing in front of a microphone with her hands and mouth animated while giving a speech

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