DK guide to public speaking

✍ Scribed by Ford-Brown, Lisa A.

• Publisher: Pearson
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 547
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With its powerful visual design and comprehensive scope, the DK Guide to Public Speaking, 2/e, is an easy-to-navigate resource that will equip students with the tools to be effective public speakers. Based on extensive research and usability studies, this full-color, tabbed, spiral-bound guidebook gives students the practical information they seek, supported with the concepts and theories instructors want.

✦ Table of Contents

Overview of public speaking --
Getting to know your audience and situation --
Selecting your topic and purpose --
Locating support materials --
Selecting and testing support materials --
Outlining your speech --
Organizing the speech body --
Introducing and concluding your speech --
Using language successfully --
Delivering your speech --
Using presentation aids --
Listening --
Evaluating speeches --
The informative speech --
Tools for persuading --
The persuasive speech --
Speeches for special events --
On-the-job speaking --
Speaking in small groups.

✦ Subjects

Public speaking -- Handbooks, manuals, etc;Public speaking