Painless Speaking

Name: Painless Speaking
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ISBN: 9781438000039

ISBN-10: 1438000030

ISBN-13: 9781438000039

Edition: 2nd 2012 (Revised)

Authors: Mary Elizabeth

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Speaking in today's world involves more than prepared talks from behind a podium, and this up-to-date book provides guidance for a wide range of contemporary situations, including conversation, reading aloud to an audience, Skyping, and even giving a traditional formally prepared speech. Exercises throughout the text aid in composing, practicing, and delivering speeches. All titles in Barron'sPainless Seriesare being updated in new, improved editions, and they all feature access to brand-new subject-related arcade game apps that will appeal to students. Books in thePainless Seriescover most classroom subjects, and include a variety of fun features for students who find the subjects…

Book details

List price: $11.50
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
Publication date: 8/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Introduction



Finding Your Voice


Elements of the Voice


Beyond Language


English for All Occasions I: Language and Dialect


English for All Occasions II: Culture and Etiquette


Modes of Communication


Internal Feeling and External Communication


Communicating Negative Content



"Confer, Converse, and Otherwise Hobnob": Informal Talk with Others


How Does Communication Happen?


The Art of Conversation



"Once Upon a Time": Making Print Come Alive


Starting Out with Texts


Speech Genres and Their Five Areas of Influence


How Texts Make Meaning


Bending the Rules of Meaning Making


Making Decisions About Stresses and Pauses


Preparing to Speak from Text



Composing a Speech


Speech Genre Selection


Subject Development


Research and Sources


Composing Your Speech


Refining Your Speech



Practicing and Performing "Think All You Speak"


Practicing Prepared Material


Delivering Prepared Material


Winging It


Evaluating Speech


Appendices



Graphic Organizers



Selected Speeches



Marked Text


Index