Resources
While some students choose to take communication courses, utilize coaches, or attend workshops, others prefer conducting their own research and seek out information in the moment they need it. Below is a list of useful online resources to further help students gain a mastery in communication.
Experience: View Speeches at the GSB and Beyond
- View From the Top
- Lifelong Learning Speaker Forum
- Stanford Breakfast Briefings DVDs available in the Jackson Library
- American Rhetoric A database of American speeches
Read: Documents and Books
- Communication Corner at Jackson Library
Speak: Build and Perfect Your Public Speaking Skills
- Toastmasters A weekly on-campus speaking group
- Technical Communications Program (Engineering School) Public Speaking course
- Oral Communication Program
- English Courses for International Students
Surf: Online Resources
- Tim Koegel, The Exceptional Presenter
- Nancy Duarte, Slideology
- Jerry Weissman, Power Presentations and The Art of Telling Your Story
- Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Made to Stick
Visit: Communication Resources at Stanford University
Write: Resources for Writing
- SEC Plain English Handbook
- RE: Writing Website
- Diagnostics
- Drills
- OWL: Online Writing Lab at Purdue
- Document Samples
- Chicago Manual of Style
- Roget's Thesauri
- Dictionary.com