Pocket Guide to Public Speaking

Pfeiffer's Pocket Guide to Public Speaking shows you how to prepare and deliver all types of oral presentations. By following its clear, practical guidelines, you will learn to:

• Research your audience and topic
• Organize informative, persuasive, and occasional speeches
• Use graphics to enhance your presentation
• Deliver the speech with enthusiasm and clarity
• Overcome nervousness

This Pocket Guide applies to both academic and on-the-job situations. It shows you how to become a competent speaker-even a great one-by following the "3 P's" of oral communication:
Prepare carefully
Practice often
Perform with enthusiasm
You'll never need another book to help you with one of the most important parts of your job-public speaking.

List of contents

1. Overview of Public Speaking.

2. Research.

3. Organization.

4. Text.

5. Graphics.

6. Delivery.

Appendix: Sample Speech.

Index.

Summary

Covers the five elements of the speech process - research, organization, text, graphics, and delivery - and includes guidelines, supporting examples, and practical exercises to reinforce the skills being learned. This book is useful for courses with a Public Speaking or Oral Communication component or Introductory Public Speaking.

Product details

• Authors: William S. Pfeiffer, William Sanborn Pfeiffer
• Publisher: Pearson Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2001
• EAN: 9780130415448
• ISBN: 978-0-13-041544-8
• No. of pages: 108
• Weight: 250 g
• Series: Prentice Hall; Prentice Hall
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Letters, rhetoric; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries