Authors: Randy Fujishin
ISBN-13: 9780205543021, ISBN-10: 0205543022
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Inc.
Date Published: January 2008
Edition: 6th Edition
The Natural Speaker is a concise, practical, inexpensive, student-friendly guide to public speaking that explores the basic skills necessary to present a natural, effective, and rewarding speech to any audience.By providing a basic knowledge of speech construction, practice, and delivery, this book is designed to enhance and improve students' natural speaking strengths. Featuring a warm, simple, and humorous writing style, The Natural Speaker presents the fundamental concepts and skills required for effective speaking.
Helps speakers enhance and improve their natural speaking strengths, and provides a basic knowledge of speech construction, practice, and delivery. Early chapters explore principles and skills of communication, and address selecting a topic, gathering material, and organizing any speech topic. Later chapters highlight physical components of speaker delivery, principles of sharing information with an audience, and career development. Material is presented in a thoughtful, interesting, and sometimes humorous manner. Fujishin is associated with West Valley College. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Preface | ||
1 | Communicating with Others: Your Most Important Skill | 1 |
2 | Giving Yourself Permission: Who Said You Could Talk? | 17 |
3 | Handling Your Stage Fright: Overcoming Fear | 25 |
4 | Speaking On Your Feet: Impromptu Speaking | 38 |
5 | Selecting Your Topic: Choosing Your Path | 47 |
6 | Researching Your Speech: What You Sow Is What You Reap | 60 |
7 | Organizing Your Speech: Keeping It Simple | 75 |
8 | Delivering Your Speech: Being Yourself | 93 |
9 | Informing Your Audience: Teaching Others | 114 |
10 | Persuading Your Audience: Changing Others | 133 |
11 | Becoming a Speaker: A Lifelong Journey | 151 |
Index | 160 |