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Persuasive Policy Speech Resources
Background Research
CQ Researcher explores important issues ranging from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
A database that's great for giving overviews and viewpoints for timely and controversial topics in the world.
Offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects. Not simply a textbook of definitions, each volume provides discussions of the central issues in a given topic combining facts, analysis, and new ideas to make often challenging topics highly readable.
ProCon.org is a nonprofit nonpartisan public charity that provides well-sourced pro, con, and related research on more than 50 controversial issues, from gun control and death penalty to illegal immigration and alternative energy
Government Documents
For current information on the state of a particular issue or bill, try searching in the Government domain online. For example; 'student debt site:.gov'
Data Use: statistical data can be a tremendous support for your persuasive speech.
For congressional bills go here
US Data and Statistics Home - scroll down to review all government data sources- explore one
that relates to topic
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Academic Search Complete contains full text, indexing and abstracts, monographs and reports from more than 13,000 publications. (Also has magazine and newspaper articles, although these are not peer-reviewed)
