These websites help Toastmasters, teachers, students, managers, and others to improve the way they speak, listen, and communicate. Communicating requires subject knowledge, know-how, and the wisdom that comes with experience.

Don't forget the valuable resources in our club's library!
 

Toastmasters Websites

 

• Toastmasters District 55 (our club is in this district)

• Toastmasters International

 

Great Speeches

 

• American Rhetoric (database speeches)

• Gifts of Speech (women's speeches from around the world)

• Great American Documents

• History Channel (search for speeches on different topics, different times)

 

Humor

 

• The Art of Using Humor in Public Speaking

• Humorscope

• Laugh-Lines

• Lots of Jokes

 

Quotes

 

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

• The Yale Book of Quotations

• Quoteland.com

• LitQuotes

• Quotes of the Day

• QuoteWorld

• Said What?

• Stupid Quotations

• Inspirational Quotes

 

Fortunes (randomly displays quotes)

 

• Fortune for today

• Fortunemod

• PBworks Fortunes (wiki)

• Aaron Fuegi's Fortunes Page

• Gigaset Fortune

 

Speaking and Presentation Skills

 

• Six Minutes: Your guide to becoming a confident and effective speaker.

• Advanced Public Speaking Institute

• Public Speaking: An Online Resource Guide

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Resources & References

 

• AllWords

• Avalon Project (historical documents)

• Bartleby.com (literature, reference and verse)

• Encyclopedia Brittanica

• Mirriam-Webster Dictionary

• Dictionary.com

• Urban Dictionary

• Modern English Grammar

• Neologisms (new words)

• Phrase Finder

• Plagiarism: How to Avoid It

• Roberts Rules of Order

• The Role of Public Speaking in the Business World

• WorldWide Words

• Word Assault (look up words using multiple dictionaries and references)

• Wordwizard 

 

Grammar & Style Guides

 

• The Chicago Manual of Style

• The Gregg Reference Manual

• The Associated Press Stylebook

• Prig Page

• Guide to Grammar and Style (Rutgers University)

• Guide to Grammar and Writing (Capital Community College)

 

Associations & Groups

 

• National Speakers Association

 

Clichés

 

• Cliché Finder

• Cliche Finder

• Clichés: Avoid Them Like the Plague

• The Movie Clichés List

• How to Slay a Cliché

 

Nonbiased or Stereotyped Language

 

• Appropriate Language (Purdue Online Writing Lab)

• Guidelines for Non-Sexist Language (Keene State College)

• Guidelines for the Use of Nonsexist Language (University of New Hampshire