Resources
While many students choose to take communication courses, utilize coaches, or attend workshops, others prefer conducting their own research and seeking out information in the moment they need it. Below is a list of useful online resources to help students gain mastery in communication.
Speak: Build and Perfect Your Public Speaking Skills
- GSB Communication Courses
- Toastmasters A speaking group that meets on campus weekly
- Stanford Continuing Studies Public and Improvisational Speaking courses
- Technical Communications Program Public Speaking course at the Engineering School
- Oral Communication Program
- English Courses for International Students
Read: Documents and Books
- Matt Abrahams, Speaking Up Without Freaking Out
- Nancy Duarte, Slide:ology & Resonate
- Bill Ellet, The Case Study Handbook
- Carmine Gallo, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs
- Carol Kinsey Goman, The Silent Language of Leaders: How Body Language Can Help – or Hurt – How You Lead
- Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Made to Stick & Switch
- Tim Koegel, The Exceptional Presenter and The Exceptional Presenter Goes Virtual
- Jerry Weissman, Presentations in Action, The Power Presenter, Presenting to Win & In the Line of Fire
- Gene Zelazny, Say it with Charts & Say it with Presentations
Write: Resources for Writing
- SEC Plain English Handbook
- RE: Writing Website
- Diagnostics
- Dictionary.com
- Drills
- OWL: Online Writing Lab at Purdue
- Document Samples
- Chicago Manual of Style
- Plain Language Tips and samples from the "plain language" movement
- UNC Writing Center Handouts and links from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Grammar Girl
Experience: View Speeches at the GSB and Beyond
- Expert Speaker Series Watch communication experts address the GSB
- View From the Top
- Lifelong Learning Speaker Forum
- TED.com Riveting talks by remarkable people
- American Rhetoric A database of American speeches
Visit: Communication Resources at Stanford University