Public Speaking Guides

Presidents and Their Pens: The Story of White House Speechwriters explores 23 presidencies through the detailed analysis of speeches including Linc...

How effective are election campaign posters? Providing a unique political history, this book traces the impact that these posters – as well as broa...

Public Speaking Basics provides a semester's worth of information and exercises to help college students master public speaking. There is an emphas...

Familiar narratives and simplistic stereotypes frame the representation of women in U.S. politics. Pervasive containment rhetorics, such as the dis...

Familiar narratives and simplistic stereotypes frame the representation of women in U.S. politics. Pervasive containment rhetorics, such as the dis...

The fourth edition of this dynamic skills-based introduction to personal communication includes new content on virtual communication scenarios, inc...

Now in its 21st edition, this introductory public speaking textbook encourages the reader to see public speaking as a way to build community in tod...

Now in its 21st edition, this introductory public speaking textbook encourages the reader to see public speaking as a way to build community in tod...

The fourth edition of this dynamic skills-based introduction to personal communication includes new content on virtual communication scenarios, inc...

This book studies the art of public speaking as oration instead of just ornamentation. It repositions public speaking as a fundamental business lea...

The Natural Speaker is a friendly step-by-step guide to public speaking that explores the fundamental skills necessary to present a natural and rew...

The theory and practice of public speaking is simplified and made available to all in this introductory text designed for those with little or no e...

In recent years, the process and outlet for public speaking has grown with digital progressions such as TED talks and Facebook Live. Purposeful Com...

In its 13th Edition, the iconic Oral Interpretation continues to prepare students to analyze and perform literature through an accessible, step-by-...

Providing a comparative study on celebrity advocacy – from the work of Bono, George Clooney, Madonna, Greg Mortenson, and Kim Kardashian West – thi...

Pros and Cons: A Debaters Handbook offers a unique and invaluable guide to the arguments both for and against over 140 current controversies and gl...

Public Speaking: Building Competency in Stages is an introduction to public speaking, a course that is found in nearly every 2 and 4 year college/...

This title presents an enlightening overview and analysis of the uses of rhetoric in the English language. The way we use our language to convince ...

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

A central work in the history of rhetoric.Quintilian, born in Spain about AD 35, became a widely known and highly successful teacher of rhetoric in...

Effective Speaking provides the hard scientific information about audience psychology, text preparation, presentation methods, voice production, bo...

This book presents the first study of voice-over from a wide approach, including not only academic issues but also a description of the practice of...

How are audiovisual translations made and received? This is just one of the questions this book offers answers to. Bringing together research on va...

Othello: The 30-Minute Shakespeare is a gripping seven-scene interpretation of this Shakespearean masterpiece.There is a dramatic build as each suc...

Drawing from interviews with Internet researchers from across the globe who work in diverse disciplines and in a wide array of online venues, this ...

How do individuals perceive the increasingly open-ended nature of mediated surveillance? In what ways are mediated surveillance practices interwove...

Drawing from interviews with Internet researchers from across the globe who work in diverse disciplines and in a wide array of online venues, this ...

How do individuals perceive the increasingly open-ended nature of mediated surveillance? In what ways are mediated surveillance practices interwove...

Die Tryin’ traces the cultural connections between videogames, masculinity, and digital culture. It fuses feminist, psychoanalytic, Marxist, and po...

Die Tryin’ traces the cultural connections between videogames, masculinity, and digital culture. It fuses feminist, psychoanalytic, Marxist, and po...

This practical guide introduces students to the language and other skills needed to deliver a presentation in English. Concise and accessible, the ...