Public speaking handbook /
Steven A. Beebe, Susan J. Beebe.
- Third edition.
- xxv, 526 pages : colour illustrations, colour map ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-508) and index.
Introduction to Public Speaking -- Why Study Public Speaking? -- Public Speaking and Conversation -- The Communication Process -- The Rich Heritage of Public Speaking -- Public Speaking and Diversity -- Speaking with Confidence -- Understand Your Nervousness -- Build Your Confidence -- Previewing the Audience-Centered Speechmaking Process -- An Audience-Centered Speechmaking Model -- Consider Your Audience -- Select and Narrow Your Topic -- Determine Your Purpose -- Develop Your Central Idea -- Generate the Main Ideas -- Gather Supporting Material -- Organize Your Speech -- Rehearse Your Speech -- Deliver Your Speech -- Speaking Freely and Ethically -- Ethics -- Free Speech -- Speaking Freely -- Speaking Ethically -- Listening Ethically -- Listening to Speeches -- Barriers to Effective Listening -- How to Become a Better Listener -- Improving Your Note-Taking Skills -- Listening and Critical Thinking -- Analyzing and Evaluating Speeches -- Analyzing Your Audience -- Becoming an Audience-Centered Speaker -- Gathering Information About Your Audience -- Analyze Information About Your Audience -- Analyzing Your Audience Before You Speak -- Adapting to Your Audience as You Speak -- Analyzing Your Audience After You Speak -- Developing Your Speech -- Select and Narrow Your Topic -- Determine Your Purpose -- Develop Your Central Idea -- Generate and Preview Your Main Ideas -- Meanwhile, Back at the Computer . -- Gathering Supporting Material -- Personal Knowledge and Experience -- The Internet -- Library Resources -- Interviews -- Resources from Special-Interest Groups and Organizations -- Research Strategies -- Using Supporting Material -- Illustrations -- Descriptions and Explanations -- Definitions -- Analogies -- Statistics -- Opinions -- Selecting the Best Supporting Material -- Organizing Your Speech -- Organizing Your Main Ideas -- Subdividing Your Main Ideas -- Integrating Your Supporting Material -- Organizing Your Supporting Material -- Developing Signposts -- Supplementing Signposts with Presentation Aids -- Introducing Your Speech -- Purposes of Introductions -- Effective Introductions -- Concluding Your Speech -- Purposes of Conclusions -- Effective Conclusions -- Outlining and Editing Your Speech -- Developing a Preparation Outline -- Editing Your Speech -- Developing Your Delivery Outline and Speaking Notes -- Using Words Well: Speaker Language and Style -- Oral Versus Written Language Style -- Using Words Effectively -- Adapting Your Language Style to Diverse Listeners -- Crafting Memorable Word Structures -- Tips for Using Language Effectively -- Delivering Your Speech -- The Power of Speech Delivery -- Methods of Delivery -- Characteristics of Effective Delivery -- Audience Diversity and Delivery -- Rehearsing Your Speech: Some Final Tips -- Delivering Your Speech -- Adapting Your Speech Delivery for Television -- Responding to Questions -- Designing and Using Presentation Aids -- The Value of Presentation Aids -- Types of Presentation Aids -- Guidelines for Developing Presentation Aids -- Guidelines for Using Presentation Aids -- Speaking to Inform -- Goals of Informative Speaking -- Types of Informative Speeches -- Strategies to Enhance Audience Understanding -- Strategies to Maintain Audience Interest -- Strategies to Enhance Audience Recall -- Understanding Principles of Persuasive Speaking -- Persuasion Defined -- How Persuasion Works -- How to Motivate Listeners -- How to Develop Your Persuasive Speech -- Putting Persuasive Principles into Practice -- Using Persuasive Strategies -- Establishing Credibility -- Enhancing Your Credibility -- Using Logic and Evidence to Persuade -- Using Emotion to Persuade -- Strategies for Adapting Ideas to People and People to Ideas -- Strategies for Organizing Persuasive Messages -- Speaking for Special Occasions and Purposes -- Public Speaking in the Workplace -- Discuss the Need or Problem -- Anticipate Criticism -- Ceremonial Speaking -- Introductions -- After-Dinner Speaking: Using Humor Effectively -- Speaking in Small Groups -- The Classical Tradition of Rhetoric -- Suggested Speech Topics -- Speeches for Analysis and Discussion. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Appendix A. Appendix B. Appendix C. Appendix D.