LibGuides: COMM 2: Home

Basic Information

The place to start is your course syllabus! This can always be found in the Canvas shell for your class. If you are having trouble finding it, ask your instructor.

If your section uses an OER textbook, there will either be a link to click on or a PDF will be provided to you. Otherwise, the library has many of the textbooks for 2-hour in-library checkout, and you can purchase copies at the Viking Bookstore. Some textbooks are available for rent or in e-book form through the Viking Bookstore.

Here are the Student Learning Outcomes for your course:

Critically analyze and differentiate between the different forms and genres of literature.
Analyze and listen critically to oral presentations of literature.
Research, adapt, edit, and interpret various forms of literature both for individual and group performance.

The library has print books and electronic resources for you to use in any research assignments and to help you understand the course material.

Library Resources

A-Z Database Guide
Here is a list of all our electronic resources. You sign in using your B number.
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These are NOT considered "Internet resources" so you can use as many of these as you want.
Library Catalog
Here is where you find print items such as books. You can also find some electronic journal articles and e-books here.

Here are some resources on oral interpretation of literature!

Remembering: Oral History Performance by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall (Contribution by); D. Pollock (Editor)
ISBN: 9781403979582
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Drawing on the work of scholars and practitioners such as Augusto Boal, Gloria Anzaldua, and Trinh Minh-ha, these essays advocate oral history and oral history-based performance as means to challenge and expand upon traditional ways of transmitting historical knowledge. The contributors' central concerns are performative aspects of oral history itself and the theatrical or classroom "re-performance" of oral history. The essays detail classroom and public pedagogies, community-based interventions, processes of developing interview-based performances, and the ethical and political implications of oral history as an embodied form of representation. The essays collected in this volume present the most current scholarship straddling the rich intersection between oral history and performance, and together suggest ways for scholars and performers to use oral history to challenge more traditional modes of knowledge.

Citation Format and Essay Writing Resources

How to use EbscoHOST
How to use the e-books
How to use Films on Demand
Trust No One
A guide from your librarian
So I Saw This Meme on the Internet
Steps to a Research Paper

More electronic resources for you!

How to Read a Poem out Loud by Billy Collins
Be memorable. Whether you like it or loathe it, public speaking is something many of us have to do. Be it presentations to colleagues or speeches to a room full of near strangers, we all want to shine...or at least get through it with our dignity intact. Luckily Philip Collins, former Chief Speech Writer to Tony Blair, knows exactly what's needed to give a storming speech.
Rediscovering the Lost Power of Reading Aloud by Meghan Cox Gurdon
Publication Date: 2020
Your Voice Is Your Business: The Science and Art of Communication, Second Edition combines the latest in voice research and technology with the most powerful, state-of-the-art presentation skills and methods. The result is an integrated and comprehensive approach to connecting the technically based aspects of voice production with an applied, skill-based grasp of interpersonal effectiveness.

Librarian

Kyri Freeman

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Subjects: History, Library Science

Films on Demand

Films On Demand
There are a lot of streaming videos on public speaking here.
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Business Source Elite

Business Source Elite (CONTAINS PEER REVIEWED MATERIAL)
This is the best place to find articles on public speaking and presentations.