Full Description
Helps students become better speakers in their classrooms, workplaces, and communities
This top-selling, comprehensive introductory public speaking title highlights and develops the theme of "Finding Your Voice." It helps students develop as speakers and as people, as they gain presentation skills and confidence, discover causes that interest and engage them, and give them a sense of purpose. This theme reinforces the book's primary goal of helping students to become better communicators in their classrooms, workplaces and communities.
Contents
Part One: The Foundations of Public Speaking
Chapter 1: Discovering Your Voice
Chapter 2: Understand and Managing Your Fear of Speaking
Chapter 3: Preparing, Practicing and Presenting Your First Speech
Chapter 4: The importance of listening
Part Two: Preparation for Public Speaking
Chapter 5: Understanding Your Audience and the Occasion
Chapter 6: Selecting Your Topic
Chapter 7: Building Responsible Knowledge
Chapter 8: Supporting Your Ideas
Chapter 9: Developing and Structuring Your Speech
Part Three: Developing Presentation Skills
Chapter 10: Presentation Aids
Chapter 11: Putting Words to Work
Chapter 12: Delivering Your Speech
Part Four: Types of Public Speaking
Chapter 13: Enlightening Discourse
Chapter 14: Convincing Discourse
Chapter 15: Persuasion in Controversy
Chapter 16: Ceremonial Speaking on Special Occasions
Appendix A: Communicating in Small Groups
Appendix B: Speeches for Analysis
