Public Speaking Guides

Argumentation and Debate: A Public Speaking Approach addresses the needs of students with no prior experience in formal debate, limited experience ...

Advanced Public Speaking: A Leader's Guide is a comprehensive textbook designed to serve as a speech-making reference for upper-level undergraduate...

Imagine you are a scientist faced with presenting your research clearly and concisely. Where would you go for help? This book provides the answer. ...

This edited collection comprises foundational texts and new contributions that revisit the theory of the «audience commodity» as first articulated ...

This edited collection comprises foundational texts and new contributions that revisit the theory of the «audience commodity» as first articulated ...

Public speaking is a much coveted yet difficult art. This book illustrates the use of various linguistic devices and persuasive strategies with exa...

The articles collected in this volume encompass the outcomes of the conference «Media Convergence Konwergencja Mediów Medienkonvergenz», held at ...

Seventy-five years after the infamous broadcast, does War of the Worlds still matter? This book answers with a resounding yes! Contributors revisit...

By combining the analysis of the new forms and environments of the digital world with critical scholarship of the role of the users, this book argu...

The 2008 U.S. election was arguably the most important election of our lifetime: the first African American president was elected to office; the ca...

Portable phones are now miniature multi-media centers that can fit neatly in ones pocket, and media industries of all types are adapting content fo...

For more than a decade, girl power has been a cultural barometer, reflecting girlhoods ever-changing meanings. How did girl power evolve from a sub...

Todays world is in turmoil. Economic crises are bringing countries to the brink of ruin, and old models are being questioned. The same sense of cri...

The second edition of Rhetoric Online: The Politics of New Media has been extensively revised and expanded in order to systematically examine how r...

From high-tech kitchen gadgets and magazines to the Food Network, the last few decades have seen a huge rise in food-focused consumption, media, an...

In light of current and projected demographic changes in the U.S., this book examines the attention paid to Latina/o youth from mainstream media co...

Soap operas and telenovelas are watched by millions of people around the world every day. As cultural, social, and economic phenomena, examining th...

Advances in digital technology over the past two decades have created a wide array of new media platforms, channels, and delivery mechanisms. Throu...

How does one make sense of YouTube? There is no reliable sample of videos on YouTube; no easily identifiable way to determine its dominant themes; ...