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Communicating at Work: Principles and Practices for Business and Professions, 7/e
Ronald B. Adler
Jeanne Marquardt Elmhorst

Informative and Persuasive Presentations

Annotated Links

Virtual Presentation Assistant
(http://www.ukans.edu/cwis/units/coms2/vpa/vpa.htm)

This site provides a useful tool for developing informative presentations.  It allows you to access help on virtually any aspect of public speaking as well as links to a plethora of other public speaking Web sites.
Business Presentations
(http://www.presentingsolutions.com/effectivepresentations.html)

A commercially maintained site specializing in the equipment needed for presentations that contains "news, trends, and tips" for the business presentation world.
Critically Analyze Information Sources
(http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/skill26.htm)

This site offers tips for critically analyzing various information sources, including Web sites.
Internet literacy
(http://lme.mankato.msus.edu/ded/tt/19eval.html)

This site lists questions to ask during an initial appraisal of the source and for a more in-depth content analysis.  It also takes you step by step through questions to evaluate Web sites and provides links to several Web review tools.
Argument and Persuasion
(http://www.humboldt.edu/~speech)

Provides multiple links to Internet resources helpful in constructing and evaluating persuasive messages, including resources for critical thinking, argument, logic, and several guides to fallacies with examples and exercises.