Public Speaking category: 1264 books
You're On!
101 Tips to improve your public speaking skills
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
A useful guide for pastors, group leaders, coaches, & storytellers, Ruth Stotter’s little guide will boost your confidence if you are new to public speaking, and it will remind experienced speakers of the basics that insure success in front of large audiences and small. The author’s experience...
by Rebecca Shafir
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
We all love the convenience of a short, precise text message, but it comes at a cost. More and more people are ill equipped to pick up a phone or arrange an in-person meeting, and often even the idea of speaking causes actual anxiety. In Speaking with Power and Persuasion, licensed speech and language...
I Can See You Naked
A Fearless Guide to Making Great Presentations
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
“America’s best book on making presentations strikes again.” –Don E. Shultz, Northwestern University The smart, witty, nationally bestselling guide to public speaking. “If you get nervous, just picture everyone in the audience naked.” We've all heard this piece of advice on public speaking...
Speaking Hatefully
Culture, Communication, and Political Action in Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
In Speaking Hatefully, David Boromisza-Habashi focuses on the use of the term “hate speech” as a window on the cultural logic of political and moral struggle in public deliberation. This empirical study of gyűlöletbeszéd, or "hate speech," in Hungary documents competing meanings of...
by Michael A. Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
This textbook provides a survey of the Speech and Communication Studies areas of Communication, focusing on human communication through the transactional model of communication. Interpersonal Communication chapters constitute the largest portion of the book, with the Public Speaking chapters the next...
Do It! Speaking
77 Instant-Action Ideas to Market, Monetize, and Maximize Your Expertise
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2020
Discover the principles, practices, and insider secrets of paid professional speaking success in 77 instant-access “microchapters” that will help you market your smarts, monetize your message, and dramatically expand your reach and revenue.
For thought-leading CEOs, executives, consultants,...
by Richard L. Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
This fully revised third edition includes an entirely new chapter devoted to online presentations. This Workbook also includes updated material on interactive training and questioning, as well as extensive coverage of electronic presentations. Packed with tips, ideas, and examples, this book consists...
Make a PACT for Success
Designing Effective Information Presentations
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2002
At one time taking a public speaking course was sufficient to provide the skills necessary for effective presentations. Now, the Information Age makes the use of information technology mandatory, so that presentations are delivered not only through speech, but also using electronic communications,...
Quintilian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing
Translations from Books One, Two, and Ten of the "Institutio oratoria"
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Quintilian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing, edited by James J. Murphy and Cleve Wiese, offers scholars and students insights into the pedagogies of Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (ca. 35–ca. 95 CE), one of Rome’s most famous teachers of rhetoric. Providing translations of three key sections...
How to Become a Public Speaker
Showing the Best Manner of Arranging Thought so as to Gain Conciseness, Ease and Fluency in Speech
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
How to Become a Public Speaker is a great book on public speaking first published in 1903.
Plain English at Work
A Guide to Writing and Speaking
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 1996
Everyday we write countless memos, letters, and reports without a second thought. Likewise, we give presentations, both formal and informal. Often this writing and speaking gets criticized for being jargon-ridden, obscure, or long-winded--in short, for not being in "plain English." But what...
by Katherine Adams
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
At the beginning of the 20th century, Progressive reformers set up curricula in journalism, public relations, and creative writing to fulfill their own purposes: well-trained rhetors could convince the United States citizenry to accept Progressive thinking on monopolies and unions and to elect reform...
by Elenore Long
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2008
Offering a comparative analysis of “community-literacy studies," Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics traces common values in diverse accounts of “ordinary people going public.” Elenore Long offers a five-point theoretical framework. Used to review major community-literacy...
by Fredrik Haren
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
“If you want to get booked to speak at Global Conferences of large multinational companies, there is no one better to learn from than Fredrik Härén. Apply the 23 lessons and take your speaking to the next level this year!”
Manoj Vasudevan
CEO Thought Expressions World Champion of Public Speaking
“This...