Congressional Digest
- "Pro-Con" magazine that provides background information on issues and a sense of the debates of the day, dating back to 1921.
- Opposing Views
- Every issue has at least two sides. This site includes web links and print journal subscriptions in the UW Libraries which present a wide variety of views on many current issues, coverage from a particular perspective (political party, ethnic group, religious group, etc.), and controversial issues currently under debate (abortion, gun control, etc.).
- Full text public opinion polls conducted from 1986 through the present in the United States and 100 other countries around the world.
Read the All about polling section that includes a brief history of polling, the mechanics of polling, technology challenges, questions a journalist should ask about polling results, polling associations, and more.
- Taking Sides. Clashing views on controversial...
- This is a series of books that presents the arguments on both sides of many contemporary, controversial issues. Search for these in the UW Libraries Catalog as a title search.
- Public Agenda Online
- Site provides nonpartisan issue guides that describe the policy options and public opinion behind critical public concerns such as abortion, child care, federal budget, medicare, and social security. "About Polling" helps reporters and citizens evaluate public opinion surveys.
- More Public Opinion Sources ...
- Government Information
- Statistics
- World Lecture Hall-Communication
- This University of Texas, Austin site includes many course syllabii, assignments, some course notes, and related materials. Subjects cover Argumentation & Advocacy, Business & Professional Speaking, Communication & New Technology, Computer-Mediated Communication, Exploring Contemporary Television, Interactive Multimedia Producation, Interpersonal Communication, Introduction to Cybermedia, Introduction to Public Speaking, Language and Deafness, Legal Argumentation, Multimedia, New Media: The Internet and WWW, Nonverbal Communication, Organizational Communication, Post-Soviet Media, Public Relations Technology, Public Speaking on the Internet, Visual Community: Daily Life in Cyberspace, Visual Reporting, and Writing the Ethnography of Communication.
