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• P 87- (Communication. Mass Media)
  
• PN 4700- (Journalism)

• PN 4121- (Public Speaking) 

Academic OneFile - The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.

Oxford Reference Online - Oxford Reference Online brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and other reference works into a single cross-searchable resource.  Subject areas include language, general reference, humanities, social sciences, business & professional, and science & medicine

CQ Researcher CQ Researcher explores a single "current" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 objective and balanced reports produced each year including four expanded reports

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•  Communication Education  (http://www.natcom/org/pubs/CE/CE_des.htm)
  
•  Communication Teacher  (http://www.natcom/org/pubs/ct/ct.htm)
  

The Associated Press stylebook and briefing on media law.  New York: Addison-Wesley, 2002. REF PN4783. A83 2002.  The journalist's "bible', includes Internet guide and glossary, sports guidelines and style, business guidelines and style, and punctuation guide.

Speaker's lifetime library.  Leonard Spinrad. Paramus, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997.REF PN4193.I5 S64 1997. This book is 4 self-contained volumes in one with thousands of speech ideas, model speeches, heartwarming stories,  tall tales, folk sayings, little known Bible quotations, hilarious jokes, strange facts, memorable sayings of famous people ...and everything you need to step up to the podium with confidence.

Respectfully Quoted. Edited by Suzy Platt. Washington D.C.: Congressional Research Service, 1992. REF PN 6081. R435 1992 Contains more than 2100 quotations taken from frequently asked questions at the Congressional Reading Room about the source or verification of quotations.

Tennessee News Media Directory. Betty Highberger. Mount Dora, FL: Betty Highberger, 2001 REF Z 6952 .T42 2001-2002 Provides listings of dailies, weeklies, magazines, and radio and television stations. Entries are arranged by type of publication giving names, addresses, and contact personnel.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Media and Communications. Macmillan.. New York: 1996. REF P 87.5 W45 1996 A dictionary of terminology related to all fields of the communication industry.

American Communication Association WWW Homepage (http://www.americancomm.org/) - ACA was created to promote academic and professional research, criticism, teaching, practical use, and exchange of principles and theories of human communication.

World Wide Web Virtual Library - Communications (http://www.vlib.org/Communication.html)  - The World Wide Web Virtual Library of Communications resources contains many pages on broadcasting, publishing, telecommunications. and journalism.

Columbia Journalism Review    http://www.cjr.org

Yahoo: News and Media http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media