This document provides an introduction to finding scholarly and popular sources for a speech on a current issues topic. It outlines the goals of being able to distinguish between scholarly and popular sources, find articles in databases, and use sources to write and deliver a speech. It defines the differences between scholarly and popular sources and provides examples of scholarly databases like Academic Search Complete and popular news databases like Newspaper Source and Gale Infotrac Newspapers. It emphasizes using the library homepage and asking librarians for help in researching sources.