Speaking Your Mind

Speaking Your Mind: Oral Presentation and Seminar Skills is designed with the belief that the key to good speaking is an awareness of audience and context and knowledge of the techniques of argumentation or rhetoric.

List of contents

1. Conversations and Seminars
2. Introduction to Rhetoric and Argument
3. Shakespeare and Renaissance Rhetoric
4. Everyday Rhetorics
5. Making your Case
6. Presenting your Case.
Appendix 1: Sample Criteria Sheet for Peer Oral Assessment.
Appendix 2: Sample Practice Presentation Scenarios.
Further Reading.
Glossary.

About the author

Tory Young, Department of English, Polytechnic University
Cordella Bryan, Freelance Educational Consultant

Summary

This book is designed with the belie that the key to good speaking is an awareness of audience and context and knowledge of the techniques of argumentation or rhetoric.

Product details

• Authors: Cordelia Bryan, Rebecca Stott, Tory Young
• Assisted by: Cordelia Bryan (Editor), Rebecca Stott (Editor), Tory Young (Editor)
• Publisher: Pearson Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.09.2024
• EAN: 9780582382435
• ISBN: 978-0-582-38243-5
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 236 g
• Series: Speak-Write Series; Speak-Write Series
• Subject: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career