The Speaker's Handbook, Spiral bound Version - Softcover

Stuart, Douglas; Sprague, Jo; Bodary, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1285444612 ISBN 13: 9781285444611

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Helping you build your public speaking skills for a variety of contexts, THE SPEAKER'S HANDBOOK, 11e covers the entire process of preparing, organizing, developing, and delivering a speech-making it the ideal resource for beginning and experienced speakers alike. The handbook's comprehensive coverage emphasizes ethics, reasoning, audience analysis, and diversity throughout. Each chapter is designed to stand alone so you can easily refer only to the sections you need. Vivid graphics help illustrate key concepts like public speaking anxiety. Recent speeches from beginning speakers as well as public figures-including President Obama's commemorative speech on the death of Nelson Mandela-give you relevant speech models to analyze. In addition to valuable tips and advice, the handbook is packed with hands-on activities to give you plenty of practice and Checklists to help you review what you've learned.

About this title

Review:

"It covers what I would expect and need a public speaking book to cover, and it does so in a concise way that is also easy to understand."

About the Author:

Douglas Stuart is Vice President of Technical and Marketing Publications at FirstTel Systems Corporation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1285444612
• ISBN 13: 9781285444611
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 528