Keywords to explore:

invention, trend, discovery, breakthrough, innovation

 

Websites (to help you choose a topic):

Discover Magazine

Discovery Channel News

New Scientist Magazine

Popular Mechanics Magazine

Popular Science Magazine

Science News Magazine

Scientific American Magazine

Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2010

Wired Magazine

World Newspapers on Technology

 

Other helpful websites:

 

How stuff works

 

Library  Databases:

Academic OneFile

Access Science

Gale Virtual Reference Library

National Newspapers

 

Search Engine:

http://news.google.com

 

 

PAPER BOOKS:

 

Reference Books

 

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Bartlett

Ref PN6081.B27 2002     Quotations-English

 

Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Technology Hempstead

T9.E462 2005     Technology-Encyclopedias

 

Circulating Books

 

How to Write and Deliver an Effective Speech McManus

PN4142.M36 1998     Public Speaking     Oratory

 

The Speech Writing Guide Welsh

PN4121.W349     Public Speaking     English Language-Rhetoric

 

Quiz:

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