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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Introduction to Public Speaking | |
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Why Study Public Speaking? | |
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Public Speaking and Conversation | |
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Quick Check: Components of Effective Public Speaking | |
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The Communication Process | |
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Quick Check: Understand the Communication Process | |
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The Rich Heritage of Public Speaking | |
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Quick Check: The Rich Heritage of Public Speaking | |
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Public Speaking and Diversity | |
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A Question of Ethics | |
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Speaking with Confidence | |
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Understand Your Nervousness | |
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Build Your Confidence | |
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How to: Channel Your Energy | |
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Quick Check: Build Your Confidence | |
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A Question of Ethics | |
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The Audience-Centered Speechmaking Process | |
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An Audience-Centered Speechmaking Model | |
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Consider Your Audience | |
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Select and Narrow Your Topic | |
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Determine Your Purpose | |
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Develop Your Central Idea | |
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Generate the Main Ideas | |
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Gather Verbal and Visual Supporting Material | |
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Organize Your Speech | |
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Rehearse Your Speech | |
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Deliver Your Speech | |
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How to: Prepare for a Speech | |
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A Question of Ethics | |
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Sample Speech: Our Immigration Story | |
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Ethics and Free Speech | |
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Ethics | |
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Free Speech | |
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Speaking Freely | |
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Quick Check: History of Free Speech in the United States | |
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Speaking Ethically | |
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How to: Incorporate an Oral Citation into Your Speech | |
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Quick Check: The Ethical Public Speaker... | |
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Listening Ethically | |
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Quick Check: The Ethical Listener... | |
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A Question of Ethics | |
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Analyzing an Audience | |
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Listening to Speeches | |
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Barriers to Effective Listening | |
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How to: Prevent Information Overload | |
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How to: Minimize Outside Distractions | |
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How to: Counteract Prejudice | |
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How to: Overcome Receiver Apprehension | |
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Becoming a Better Listener | |
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Quick Check: Enhance Your Listening Skills | |
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Improving Your Note-Taking Skills | |
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Listening and Critical Thinking | |
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Analyzing and Evaluating Speeches | |
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A Question of Ethics | |
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Analyzing Your Audience | |
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Becoming an Audience-Centered Speaker | |
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How to: Become an Audience-Centered Speaker | |
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Gathering Information About Your Audience | |
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Analyzing Your Audience Before You Speak | |
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Quick Check: Describing Cultural Differences | |
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How to: Use Diverse Strategies | |
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Quick Check: Adapting to Diverse Listeners | |
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Quick Check: Adapting Your Message to Different Types of Audiences | |
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Adapting to Your Audience as You Speak | |
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Quick Check: Analyzing and Adapting to Your Audience as You Speak | |
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Analyzing Your Audience After You Speak | |
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A Question of Ethics | |
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Preparing a Speech | |
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Developing Your Speech | |
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Select and Narrow Your Topic | |
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How to: Brainstorm for a Topic | |
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Quick Check: Selecting a Topic | |
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Determine Your Purpose | |
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Quick Check: General Purposes for Speeches | |
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Quick Check: Specific Purposes for Speeches | |
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Develop Your Central Idea | |
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Quick Check: Purpose Statement Versus Central Idea | |
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Generate and Preview Your Main Ideas | |
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Meanwhile, Back at the Computer... | |
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A Question of Ethics | |
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Gathering Supporting Material | |
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Personal Knowledge and Experience | |
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The Internet | |
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How to: Do an Advanced Search | |
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Library Resources | |
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Quick Check: Supporting Materials in the Library | |
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Interviews | |
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Resources from Special-Interest Groups and Organizations | |
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Research Strategies | |
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How to: Document an Electronic Resource in MLA Format | |
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Quick Check: Research Strategies | |
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A Question of Ethics | |
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Supporting Your Speech | |
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Illustrations | |
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Quick Check: Choose the Right Illustrations | |
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Descriptions and Explanations | |
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Definitions | |
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Analogies | |
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Statistics | |
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Quick Check: Select Effective Statistics | |
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Opinions | |
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Quick Check: Types of Supporting Material | |
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Selecting the Best Supporting Material | |
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How to: Decide Which Is Your Best Supporting Material | |
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A Question of Ethics | |
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Crafting a Speech | |
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Organizing Your Speech | |
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Organizing Your Main Ideas | |
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Quick Check: Organize Main Ideas | |
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Subdividing Your Main Ideas | |
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Integrating Your Supporting Material | |
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Quick Check: Integrate Supporting Material | |
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Organizing Your Supporting Material | |
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Quick Check: Organizing Your Supporting Material | |
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Developing Signposts | |
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Quick Check: Verbal Transitions | |
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Quick Check: Type of Signposts | |
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Supplementing Signposts with Presentation Aids | |
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A Question of Ethics | |
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Introducing Your Speech | |
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Purposes of Introductions | |
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Quick Check: Does Your Introduction Accomplish Its Purpose? | |
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Effective Introductions | |
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How to: Develop an Effective Introduction | |
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A Question of Ethics | |
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Concluding Your Speech | |
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Purposes of Conclusions | |
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Quick Check: Purposes of Your Speech Conclusion | |
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Effective Conclusions | |
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How to: Develop an Effective Conclusion | |
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A Question of Ethics | |
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Outlining and Editing Your Speech | |
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Developing a Preparation Outline | |
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Quick Check: Summary of Correct Outline Form | |
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Editing Your Speech | |
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How to: Avoid Long Phrases | |
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Developing Your Delivery Outline and Speaking Notes | |
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A Question of Ethics | |
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Using Words Well: Speaker Language and Style | |
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Oral Versus Written Language Style | |
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Quick Check: Oral Versus Written Style | |
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Using Words Effectively | |
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Adapting Your Language Style to Diverse Listeners | |
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Crafting Memorable Word Structures | |
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Quick Check: Crafting Memorable Word Structure | |
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Tips for Using Language Effectively | |
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How to: Create Figurative Images Drama, and Cadence | |
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A Question of Ethics | |
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Delivering Your Speech | |
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Delivering Your Speech | |
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The Power of Speech Delivery | |
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Methods of Delivery | |
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Quick Check: Impromptu | |
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Quick Check: Methods of Delivery | |
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Characteristics of Effective Delivery | |
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Quick Check: Benefits of Eye Contact | |
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Quick Check: Effective Gestures | |
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Quick Check: Characteristics of Good Vocal Delivery | |
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Audience Diversity and Delivery | |
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Rehearsing Your Speech: Some Final Tips | |
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How to: Make the Most of Your Rehearsal Time | |
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Delivering Your Speech | |
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Adapting Your Speech Delivery for Television | |
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Responding to Questions | |
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A Question of Ethics | |
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Presentation Aids | |
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Designing and Using Presentation Aids | |
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The Value of Presentation Aids | |
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Quick Check: The Value of Presentation Aids | |
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Types of Presentation Aids | |
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How to: Use an Overhead Projector | |
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Guidelines for Developing Presentation Aids | |
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How to: Select the Right Presentation Aids | |
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Guidelines for Using Presentation Aids | |
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How to: Use Presentation Aids Effectively | |
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A Question of Ethics | |
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Using Presentation Software | |
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Presentation Software | |
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Using Presentation Software | |
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How to: Develop Effective Visuals | |
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Preparing a Presentation with PowerPoint | |
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Quick Check: Be Prepared | |
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A Question of Ethics | |
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Types of Speeches | |
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Speaking to Inform | |
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Goals of Informative Speaking | |
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Quick Check: Goals of Informative Speeches | |
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Types of Informative Speeches | |
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Quick Check: Types of Informative Speeches | |
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Strategies to Enhance Audience Understanding | |
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How to: Enhance Message Clarity | |
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How to: Enhance Audience Understanding | |
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Strategies to Maintain Audience Interest | |
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Quick Check: What Makes a Good Story? | |
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Strategies to Enhance Audience Recall | |
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Quick Check: Enhance Audience Recall | |
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A Question of Ethics | |
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Sample Information Speech: Choosing a Speech Topic by Roger Fringer | |
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Understanding Principles of Persuasive Speaking | |
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Persuasion Defined | |
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How Persuasion Works | |
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How to Motivate Listeners | |
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Quick Check: Using Fear Appeals to Persuade | |
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How to Develop Your Persuasive Speech | |
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Quick Check: Persuasive Propositions: Developing Your Central Idea | |
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Putting Persuasive Principles into Practice | |
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A Question of Ethics | |
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Using Persuasive Strategies | |
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Establishing Credibility | |
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Enhancing Your Credibility | |
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Using Logic and Evidence to Persuade | |
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How to: Judge the Validity of a Generalization | |
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How to: Test the Truth of an Argument | |
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Quick Check: Comparing Inductive, Deductive, and Causal Reasoning | |
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Using Emotion to Persuade | |
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How to: Use Emotion to Persuade | |
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Strategies for Adapting Ideas to People and People to Ideas | |
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Strategies for Organizing Persuasive Messages | |
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Quick Check: Organizational Patterns for Persuasive Messages | |
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A Question of Ethics | |
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Sample Persuasive Speech: Medical Mayhem | |
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Special-Occasion Speaking | |
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Public Speaking in the Workplace | |
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Ceremonial Speaking | |
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Quick Check: Introduce a Speaker | |
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How to: Give an Acceptance Speech | |
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How to: Deliver a Eulogy | |
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After-Dinner Speaking: Using Humor Effectively | |
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Quick Check: Strategies for Achieving Humor in After-Dinner Speeches | |
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A Question of Ethics | |
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Appendices | |
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Speaking in Small Groups | |
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Small Group Communication | |
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Solving Problems in Groups and Teams | |
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Participating in Small Groups | |
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Leading Small Groups | |
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Managing Meetings | |
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Planning a Group Presentation | |
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Making a Group Presentation | |
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A Question of Ethics | |
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The Classical Tradition of Rhetoric | |
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The Earliest Teachers of Rhetoric | |
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Beginning of the Greek Tradition: The Sophists | |
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Plato | |
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Aristotle | |
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The Roman Tradition | |
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Conclusion | |
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Suggested Speech Topics | |
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Informative Speech Topics | |
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Persuasive Speech Topics | |
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Speeches for Analysis and Discussion | |
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I Have a Dream | |
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Making Democracy Work: Your Responsibility to Society | |
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Van Gogh's Incredible Life | |
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The Electoral College | |
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The Dirty Secret | |
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Binge Drinking on College Campuses | |
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Curtailing the Contemporary College Counseling Crisis | |
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Notes | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |