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Offers an audience-centered approach to public speaking A Concise Public Speaking Handbook integrates the steps of preparing and delivering a speech with the ongoing process of considering the audience. The comprehensive coverage of key public speaking topics and skills makes this title an ideal core text for public speaking courses and its low cost makes it affordable as a supplement for any course or setting that requires public speaking. MySearchLab is a part of the Beebe/Beebe program. Research and writing tools, including access to academic journals, help students understand critical thinking in even greater depth. To provide students with flexibility, students can download the eText to a tablet using the free Pearson eText app. Note: MySearchLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySearchLab, please visit: www.mysearchlab.com or you can purchase a ValuePack of the text MySearchLab (at no additional cost): ValuePack ISBN-10: 0205239927 / ValuePack ISBN-13: 9780205239924.

List of contents

Part 1: Introduction

  Chapter 1: Speaking in Public  
Chapter 2: Improving Your Confidence  
Chapter 3: Presenting Your First Speech  
Chapter 4: Ethics and Free Speech  
 
Part 2: Analyzing an Audience  
 
Chapter 5: Listening  
Chapter 6: Analyzing Your Audience  
Chapter 7: Adapting to Your Audience as You Speak  
 
Part 3: Preparing a Speech  
 
Chapter 8: Developing Your Speech  
Chapter 9: Gathering Supporting Material  
Chapter 10: Supporting Your Speech  
 
Part 4: Crafting a Speech  

 
Chapter 11: Organizing Your Speech  
Chapter 12: Developing an Introduction  
Chapter 13: Developing a Conclusion  
Chapter 14: Outlining and Revising Your Speech  
Chapter 15: Using Words Well  
 
Part 5: Delivering a Speech  

  Chapter 16: Methods of Delivery  
Chapter 17: Nonverbal Communication  
Chapter 18: Verbal Communication  
Chapter 19: Adapting and Delivering Your Speech  
Chapter 20: Selecting Presentation Aids  
Chapter 21: Preparing and Using Presentation Aids  
 
Part 6: Types of Speeches  

 
Chapter 22: Informative Speaking  
Chapter 23: Understanding Principles of Persuasive Speaking  
Chapter 24: Using Persuasive Strategies  
Chapter 25: Speaking on Special Occasions  
Chapter 26: Speaking in Small Groups  

About the author

Steven A. Beebe is serving in his 28th year as Chair, of the Department of Communication Studies at
Texas State University. He is Regents’ and University Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies. He also served as Associate Dean of College of Fine Arts and Communication for 25 years. Steve is an author and co-author of twelve books (with multiple editions totaling more than 65 books), more than 50 articles and book chapters, as well as over 150 papers and presentations at professional conferences. Steve’s communication books have been used at hundreds of colleges and universities throughout the world making him one of the top communication textbook authors in the United States. Steve is President of the National Communication Association (NCA), the largest professional communication association in the world.
 
Susan J. Beebe has been on the faculty of the Department of English at Texas State University-San Marcos since 1988.  As Director of Lower-Division Studies in English, she directs the first-year writing and sophomore literature programs and helps to train and mentor some 60 graduate teaching assistants annually. Sue’s professional interests and expertise encompass both oral and written communication.  She has co-authored with Steven Beebe several communication textbooks used at more than a thousand universities worldwide.  In addition, she has published articles, conference papers, and teaching materials in both English and communication studies.

Summary

Offers an audience-centered approach to public speaking


A Concise Public Speaking Handbook integrates the steps of preparing and delivering a speech with the ongoing process of considering the audience.  The comprehensive coverage of key public speaking topics and skills makes this title an ideal core text for public speaking courses and its low cost makes it affordable as a supplement for any course or setting that requires public speaking.

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Product details

• Authors: Steven A. Beebe, Susan J. Beebe
• Publisher: Pearson Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Spiral bound
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9780205897216
• ISBN: 978-0-205-89721-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Weight: 250 g
• Series: Pearson; Pearson
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Letters, rhetoric; Kommunikation, Rhetorik