Speech-Writing Resources
 

Our collection of links to speech-writing resources was an initial feature of our club's website when we launched it in 1998. Over the ensuing years it has been enhanced and befitted from user feedback to the point where this page itself is now widely recognised and linked. We are happy to share this information with the world.

Members can also borrow books and cassettes from the Club Library

Public speaking tips

• Speech Topics Help, Advice and Ideas
  (Free speech topics lists with more than 4,000 persuasive, informative and other speech ideas, speech writing tips, how to guides, tutorials and information on outlining your speech topic for public speaking.)
• Public Speaking Institute (lots of great articles)
• Public Speaking Links (Self Improvement Online)
• Speaker Net Newsletter
• Easy Speech (a software resource for speakers with a free section of Speaker Tips)
• Presentations Magazine
• Presenters University (Resources for presenters, including clip art, audio clips, articles and PowerPoint templates.)

Quotation sources

• Bartleby (An online reference tool that links all the great collections of literature, quotations, etc.)
• Quotations Centre
• Inspiration Peak (Small in quantity but high in quality)
• Bartlett's Quotations
• The Land of Quotes
• Dictionary of Quotations
• The Quotations Archive
• Quoteland (A good site to check if you're looking for a humorous quote or a quote relevant to a particular speech topic, as it collects mainly modern quotes.)
• Quotez
• Quotes from Literature
• Success Net quotations
• Aphorisms Galore
• Aspiring to Greatness
• Quotes of the Day
• Motivational Quotes

Recommended Resources

• Wikipedia (the free encyclopaedia)
• Reference.com (incorporating Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Encyclopedia.com)
• How Stuff Works

Other Resources

• National Library of Australia
• Internet Public Library An index of trusted websites incorporating the Librarian's Internet Index (an excellent resource)
• Refdesk (the single best source for facts on the net)
• Library Spot (a great overall resource)
• Search Encyclopaedia Britannica online
• Roget's Thesaurus
• Biographies of 25,000 people
• Biograhical Dictionary of 33,000 people
• Project Gutenberg of Australia (Access over 14,000 books that are in the public domain)
• The Ultimate Collection of Online Calculators

Humour

• HumorShack (A well indexed resource of jokes and other comedy sites)
• Humournet (Another large collection of jokes and one-liners)
• Museum of Humour (A very comprehensive index of a wide range of humour websites)

Funny information

• Useless Information
• Today In History
• Any-Day-in-History

Personal enrichment

• The Positive Press
• Living Life Fully An extensive collection of inspirational and motivational material

Stories

• Heroic Stories
• This is true

If you know of other good resources for speakers, please them to us! Thanks.