Public Speaking category: 1264 books
In the Archives of Composition
Writing and Rhetoric in High Schools and Normal Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
In the Archives of Composition offers new and revisionary narratives of composition and rhetoric’s history. It examines composition instruction and practice at secondary schools and normal colleges, the two institutions that trained the majority of U.S. composition teachers and students during the...
Authoring A Discipline
Scholarly Journals and the Post-world War Ii Emergence of Rhetoric and Composition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Authoring a Discipline traces the post-World War II emergence of rhetoric and composition as a discipline within departments of English in institutions of higher education in the United States. Goggin brings to light both the evolution of this discipline and many of the key individuals involved in...
Nonacademic Writing
Social Theory and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
In this volume, methodological, cultural, technological, and political boundaries felt by writers are analyzed, translated, and challenged in a way that will appeal to researchers, theorists, graduate students, instructors, and managerial audiences. Instead of extracting rules from previous research,...
Why Johnny Can't Write
How to Improve Writing Skills
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The authors of this book, both experienced teachers, examine the controversy surrounding two popular methods for teaching writing -- the "process" approach and its offspring, Writing Across the Curriculum. Both have recently been called into question for their ineffectiveness. An alternative...
How To Make a Brilliant Best Man's Speech
and support the groom, from the stag do to the wedding
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
How to make a great, best man's speech - and a guide to being a great best man.
In this book Phillip Khan-Panni uses his expertise as a champion professional speaker to help the best man with the terrifying prospect of writing and delivering The Speech.
He guides you on the vital preparation...
by Phil Wade
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
This ebook presents a new way of approaching presentation skill lessons. It uses micro-skill hacks to help address student problems and weakness, tackle them and push supports learners towards becoming better presenters. There are 25 key topic areas and each has 3 presentation lesson hacks. These...
Pida la palabra
Los secretos de un gran orador para seducir a cualquier audiencia
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Pierda el miedo al escenario y descubra cómo conquistar y seducir al auditorio.
Pida la palabra es el libro que transformará la forma en que se elabora un discurso y la manera infalible de hacer que los auditorios se entreguen, conmovidos, a la emotividad y convicción del orador.
Durante...
by Carlos Brassel
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Se trata de uno de los mejores cursos de oratoria publicado hasta el momento; es una lectura fácil de seguir que lleva paso a paso por el difícil arte de hablar en público.
Tiene en sus manos, amable lector, el mejor curso de oratoria publicado hasta el momento, un curso fácil de seguir,...
El discurso de instituciones, empresas y viajeros
Del texto al turismo y del turismo al texto
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 2, 2014
El objetivo de esta colección de trabajos es analizar algunas de las complejas relaciones que se establecen entre los textos y la actividad turística, siendo la principal la inducción mutua a la acción, de viajar y de dar testimonio. Se presentan en función de los emisores, pertenecientes a tres...
by Wendy Atkins-Sayre, Renee S. Besel, Richard D. Besel
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Bringing together the expertise of rhetoricians in English and communication as well as media studies scholars, Arguments about Animal Ethics delves into the rhetorical and discursive practices of participants in controversies over the use of nonhuman animals for meat, entertainment, fur, and vivisection....
Reason's Dark Champions
Constructive Strategies of Sophistic Argument
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Recent decades have witnessed a major restoration of the Sophists' reputation, revising the Platonic and Aristotelian "orthodoxies" that have dominated the tradition. Still lacking is a full appraisal of the Sophists' strategies of argumentation. Christopher W. Tindale corrects that omission...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
In this volume, rhetoricians, literacy scholars, and humanists have come together to examine the complex discursive constructions of sustainability. Touching on topics including conservation efforts in specific locales; social and political constructions of rhetorical place and space; community literacy;...
Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age
The Transhuman Condition
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
It has become increasingly difficult to ignore the ways that the centrality of new media and technologies — from the global networking of information systems and social media to new possibilities for altering human genetics — seem to make obsolete our traditional ways of thinking about ethics...
Understanding Humor through Communication
Why Be Funny, Anyway?
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Understanding Humor through Communication explores theories of humor origin as well as humor functions in human groups and societies through communication. A model of humor decision by individuals is detailed, followed by humor’s emergence in communication. Elements of humor sources (incongruity,...