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Selected Electronic Books -- Periodical Databases -- Selected Books in Busse Library -- Selected Websites

Selected Electronic Books

Bicknell, Percy Favor. The Pugnacious Style. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Library, 1997.

Dowis, Richard. New Y The Lost Art of the Great Speech. New York: AMACOM Books, 2000.

McManus, Judith A. Effective Business Speaking. New York: LearningExpress, 1998.

Perloff, Richard M. The Dynamics of Persuasion. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1993.

 

Periodical Databases
 

Ebsco Databases (password required)

  • Ebsco Academic Search Premier -- Contains full-text articles for over 3,400 scholarly journals and is the world's largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database. Subject areas include: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, languages, linguistics, arts & literature, medicine, and ethnic studies.
  • Ebsco Business Source Premier -- Contains over 2,700 full text scholarly journals covering areas of management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and other interests. Some 200 publications have full contents dating back to 1965.

FirstSearch Databases (password required)

After you key in your login and password, you will need to select again from the list of available databases on the search screen.  To do this click on the dropdown menu in: Jump to Advanced Search: Select a Database to Search.  Select the required database and begin your search. You may initiate an InterLibrary Loan request from FirstSearch databases to the Busse Library. Use the linked NOTE 13A: Searching the FirstSearch Databases for help in using the databases. 

  • ArticleFirst - Index to citations from of over 12,600 journals. Tips on using this database.
  • GPO Monthly Catalog - Index to information printed by the US Government Printing Office. Tips on using this database.
  • World Almanac - Facts and figures
  • WorldCat - Over 30 million catalog records of books and audiovisuals held in libraries around the world. A good way to see if a book has been published on a topic which you may want to borrow through InterLibrary Loan. Remember to select books with at least 15 library holdings indicated. Tips on using this database.

Academic Universe and Congressional Universe from Lexis-Nexis. (password required)

 

Selected Books in Busse Library

Brandt, William J.
The rhetoric of argumentation.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1970]. PE1431 .B7

Ericson, Jon M.
The debater's guide.
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, c1987. PN4181 .E65 1987

Freeley, Austin J.
Argumentation and debate; rational decision making.
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, [1966]. PN4181 .F68 1966

Hovland, Carl Iver.
Communication and persuasion; psychological studies of opinion.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1953. P90 .H69

Mills, Glen Earl.
Reason in controversy; an introduction to general argumentation.
Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1964. PN4181 .M53

Rusher, William A. How to win arguments.
Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1985. PN4181 .R8 1985

Ryan, Halford Ross.
Persuasive advocacy: cases for argumentation and debate.
Lanham, MD: University Press of America, c1985. PN4181 .R93 1985

Sproule, J. Michael.
Argument: language and its influence.
New York: McGraw-Hill, c1980. PN4121 .S78

 

Selected Websites



Online materials for students enrolled in SD 365 are provided by the Busse Library, Mount Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, IA. Use is limited to registered students. Contact the Busse Library with your questions.