A Speaker's Guidebook

A Speaker's Guidebook
Author: Dan O'Hair
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 646
Release: 2011-10-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0312642865

A Speaker’s Guidebook is the best resource in the classroom, on the job, and in the community. Praised for connecting with students who use and keep it year after year, this tabbed, comb-bound text covers all the topics typically taught in the introductory course and is the easiest-to-use public speaking text available. In every edition, hundreds of instructors have helped us focus on the fundamental challenges of the public speaking classroom. Improving on this tradition, the fifth edition does even more to address these challenges with stronger coverage of overcoming speech anxiety, organizing and outlining, and more. And as the realties of public speaking change, so does A Speaker’s Guidebook; the new edition also focuses on presentational speaking in a digital world — from finding credible sources online to delivering presentations in a variety of mediated formats. Read the preface.

Speaker's Handbook of Humor

Speaker's Handbook of Humor
Author: Robert Orben
Publisher:
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2000
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9780877796299

This practical guide to the effective use of humor in public speeches and presentations includes step-by-step directions for telling jokes, working the audience, dealing with stage fright, and more. Also contains a special section on handling a host of surprising situations, from angry audiences to extreme temperatures, plus extensive coverage of roasts.

A Handbook of Public Speaking for Scientists and Engineers

A Handbook of Public Speaking for Scientists and Engineers
Author: Peter Kenny
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1982-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780852745533

A Handbook of Public Speaking for Scientists and Engineers helps scientists and engineers improve their skills at speaking in public in the course of their professional activities. The book shows how best to prepare papers for presentation at a technical conference and how to put cases to committee meetings. Not only does the book deal with specific events, but it also provides the techniques of more effective speaking, whether presenting papers, answering questions, or speaking "off-the-cuff." The book is written in a highly entertaining manner and should put all complacent lecturers on their guard. This is essential reading for every scientist and engineer called upon to speak in public on technical matters.

Speak to Win

Speak to Win
Author: Brian Tracy
Publisher: AMACOM
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2008-01-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0814401821

The ability to speak with confidence and deliver winning presentations can accelerate your career, earn people's respect, and enable you to achieve your greatest goals. Anyone can learn to be a great speaker, just as easily as they can learn to drive a car or ride a bike. As one of the world's premier speakers and personal success experts, Brian Tracy reveals time-tested tricks of the trade that you can use to present powerfully and speak persuasively, whether in an informal meeting or in front of a large audience. In Speak To Win, you will learn how to: become confident, positive, and relaxed in front of any audience grab people's attention from the start use body language, props, and vocal techniques to keep listeners engaged transition smoothly from one point to the next use humor, stories, quotes, and questions skillfully deal with skepticism when presenting new ideas wrap up strongly and persuasively This no nonsense handbook is perfect for delivering talks that inform, impress, persuade and motivate. Brimming with unbeatable strategies for winning people over every time, Speak To Win lets you in on his most powerful presentation secrets in this indispensable, life-changing guide.

The Speaker's Handbook

The Speaker's Handbook
Author: Jo Sprague
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1988
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780155831773

The Speaker's Handbook, Spiral bound Version

The Speaker's Handbook, Spiral bound Version
Author: Jo Sprague
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2018-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781337558617

Helping students speak in the classroom and the boardroom, THE SPEAKER'S HANDBOOK covers the entire process of preparing, organizing, developing and delivering a speech, making it ideal both for students taking a Public Speaking course and for experienced speakers. The twelfth edition continues to offer thorough coverage of ethics, reasoning, analyzing audience and diversity. Each chapter is designed to stand alone so that speakers can refer only to the sections that meet their needs. Speeches from students and public figures--including Congressman John Lewis’s dedication speech for the National Museum of African American History and Culture--provide relevant speech models as well as material for analysis. For Your Benefit features equip students with valuable tips and advice, while Speaker's Workshop and Putting It into Practice activities give students hands-on application. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Speakers' Handbook

Speakers' Handbook
Author: Anti-Socialist Union of Great Britain
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1911
Genre: Socialism
ISBN:

The Speaker's Handbook of Humor

The Speaker's Handbook of Humor
Author: Maxwell Droke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 488
Release: 1956
Genre: American wit and humor
ISBN:

This Handbook of Humour brings to you the best jokes on various subjects that include,'the Marriage and the Home','That s a woman for you', 'the Business World', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Contentment' and much more. It contains more than 1500 of the au