A Pocket Guide to Public Speaking - Softcover

O'Hair, Dan; Rubenstein, Hannah; Stewart, Rob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1457601842 ISBN 13: 9781457601842

Publisher: Bedford/st Martins, 2012

Synopsis

An introduction to public speaking provides coverage of topics from beginning research and organization to practice and delivery.

About this title

About the Author:

Dan O'Hair is dean of the University of Kentucky College of Communications and Information Studies. He is past Presidential Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Oklahoma and past president of the National Communication Association. He is coauthor or coeditor of fifteen communication texts and scholarly volumes and has published more than eighty research articles and chapters in dozens of communication, psychology, and health journals and books. He is a frequent presenter at national and international communication conferences, is on the editorial boards of various journals, and has served on numerous committees and task forces for regional and national communication associations. Hannah Rubenstein is a writer and editor who has used her academic training in communication (MA, Fairfield University) to guide her collaborations on A Speaker's Guidebook (2010), Public Speaking: Challenges and Choices (1999), and other successful college texts. She heads her own communication firm, Hedgehog Productions. Rob Stewart is an associate dean of arts and sciences and professor of communication studies at Texas Tech University. He is coauthor of A Speaker's Guidebook (2007), Public Speaking: Challenges and Choices (1999), and has also published over thirty articles and book chapters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/st Martins
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1457601842
• ISBN 13: 9781457601842
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 353