Public Speaking category: 1264 books
Reality Bites
Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2018
Fake news, alternative facts, post truth—terms all too familiar to anyone in U.S. political culture and concepts at the core of Dana L. Cloud’s new book, *Reality Bites, *which explores truth claims in contemporary political rhetoric in the face of widespread skepticism regarding the utility,...
Liminal Bodies, Reproductive Health, and Feminist Rhetoric
Searching the Negative Spaces in Histories of Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Liminal Bodies, Reproductive Health, and Feminist Rhetoric posits rhetoric and gynecology as sister discourses. While rhetoric has been historically concerned with the regulation of the productive male body, gynecology has been concerned with the discipline of the female reproductive body. Lydia M....
by Eric Marcelo
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Understandable and memorable -- these are your objectives when creating and delivering presentations. Whether you're a student making a presentation for school, an employee assigned by your boss to make a presentation, or a professional trainer, this book will help you create presentations that your audience can appreciate and remember.
by Arthur Whimbey, Elizabeth Lynn Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book offers students a method for understanding and mastering the rhetorical patterns that comprise expository writing. Its exercises ask students to arrange jumbled sentences into logical order, forming model essays for standard rhetorical patterns such as comparison/contrast, classification,...
How to Hold Successful Meetings
30 Action Tips for Managing Effective Meetings
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 1997
Provides tips for holding successful meetings, including inviting the right people, running short meetings, preventing someone from taking over a meeting, and developing an agenda.
Your Voice Is Your Calling Card
How to Power-Charge Your Voice, Boost Your Confidence, and Speak with Joy, Ease, and Conviction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Whether a professional stage performer, teacher, coach, or business professional, everyone is a performer. This primer is the ultimate voice and performance coaching package for overcoming nerves and stage fright and becoming a remarkable, inspiring speaker.
by Marianna Hudcovicová
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
This book presents empirical research of grammatical collocations of the type: verb and the prepositions «of» and «to». It is based on comparisons of English and Czech sentences containing verbs and prepositions that are followed by the object. The author creates English–Czech verbal prepositional...
Fundable Knowledge
The Marketing of Defense Technology
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Knowledge is the basic output of the defense technology establishment in the United States; it is what enables the development of weapon systems. From this premise, this volume explores the process of knowledge production in defense technology from the beginnings of the Cold War to the present time....
Spoken Language Understanding
Systems for Extracting Semantic Information from Speech
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Spoken language understanding (SLU) is an emerging field in between speech and language processing, investigating human/ machine and human/ human communication by leveraging technologies from signal processing, pattern recognition, machine learning and artificial intelligence. SLU systems are designed...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
The book presents the issue of impoliteness in media discourse found in television debates, films and computer-mediated communication. The phenomenon is viewed from different theoretical perspectives, namely prosody studies, corpus linguistics, media studies and audiovisual translation, neo-Gricean...
Completing a Professional Practice Dissertation
A Guide for Doctoral Students and Faculty
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
A growing number of both established and newly developed doctoral programs are focusing on the preparation of practitioners rather than career researchers. Professional doctorates such as the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), Doctor of Education (EdD), Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD), Doctor of Professional...
The Politics of Writing Studies
Reinventing Our Universities from Below
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
A friendly critique of the field, The Politics of Writing Studies examines a set of recent pivotal texts in composition to show how writing scholarship, in an effort to improve disciplinary prestige and garner institutional resources, inadvertently reproduces structures of inequality within American...
The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied Practice
Procedural Habits
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied Practice offers a critical reassessment of embodiment and materiality in rhetorical considerations of videogames. Holmes argues that rhetorical and philosophical conceptions of "habit" offer a critical resource for describing the interplay between thinking (writing...
Time To Know Them
A Longitudinal Study of Writing and Learning at the College Level
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
In a time of declining resources in institutions of higher education, we grapple with how priorities are to be set for the limited resources available. Most vulnerable are those students labeled underprepared by colleges and universities. Should we argue that the limited resources available ought...