Introduction

Choose a topic

The Informative Speech

Reference Sources

Find Books

Focus your topic

Find articles

The Persuasive Speech

Scholarly Articles

Find a Web page

Authoritative Information

MLA format

Research Tools

Following my reading on Alzheimer's Disease in both reference sources and books, I might decide to focus my informative speech on how research for the disease has been funded and link the level of funding to discoveries that have increased scientists' understanding of the disease.

To find more detailed information on your focused topic, you may want to find articles from journals, newspapers, and magazines.

In order to search the databases effectively, you will need to develop a list of keywords. Keywords are words or phrases that relate directly to the subject at hand. For our example Alzheimer's example, the following are some appropriate keywords: