Whether toasting friends or persuading an audience Speech Craft gives you an edge in speech making with its emphasis on connecting public speaking to your own life.
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Whether toasting friends or persuading an audience Speech Craft gives you an edge in speech making with its emphasis on connecting public speaking to your own life.
Chapter 1: Building Confidence in the Craft
The Celebrated and Feared Power of Speech
Digital Dive: A First Teacher of Public Speaking: Gorgias
The Freedom of Speech
High Anxiety: The Fear of Public Speaking
Public Speaking as a Civic Conversation
The Craft of Speech
Getting Up There: Fake it Until You Make It
Basic Speech Prep and Delivery
Let's Do This!
Chapter 2: Listening and the Ethics of Speech
Speaking With An Open Ear
Communication and Understanding: Listening Beyond Noise
An Ethics of Speaking As a Listener
Digital Dive: Plagiarism is Just Plain Nasty
Chapter 3: Audience Analysis
Checking Out Your Speech Location
Who Is Your Audience?
Digital Dive: A Deeper Focus on Audience Members and Age
Gathering Info about Your Audience
Audience Psychology: Identification and Core Values
Audience Psychology: All You Need is Love (and Identification)
Feelings: More on Audience Disposition
Chapter 4: Choosing a Speech Topic and Purpose
Developing a Dynamite Topic
Digital Dive: Finding Your Inspiration
Mind Storm: Concept Mapping and Other Explosives
Narrowing your Topic: What’s your Purpose?
From Topic to Thesis
Chapter 5: Researching Your Speech Topic
Why Research Matters
How to Research a Speech
Digital Dive: The Three Heck’s of Internet Source Reliability
Don’t Forget to Cite Your Sources!
Chapter 6: Supporting Materials and Contextual Reasoning
Types of Speech Support
Digital Dive: Types of Testimony
Contextual Reasoning
Chapter 7: Organizing and Outlining Your Speech
Organizing Your Speech
Outlining Your Speech
Digital Dive: Outlining Challenge! To Selfie or Not To Selfie?
Chapter 8: Transitions, Introductions, and Conclusions
Introducing Your Speech
Transitions
Digital Dive: Conclusions about Conclusions
Concluding Your Speech
Chapter 9: Style & Language
What is Style?
Choosing Your Words
On Rhythm and Word Choice
Digital Dive: The Effect of Repetition and Rhythm
Using Language that Uses Us: Cultivating Awareness
Chapter 10: Style and Delivery
Nonverbal Communication and Tone
Body Language
Digital Dive: Accents and Dialects
A Good Pair of Shoes: Grooming and Dressing to Speak
Chapter 11: Presentation Aids
Enhancing Your Speech Using Presentation Aids
Preparation and Presentation Guidelines
Presentation Software: Slides, Slides, Slides!
Digital Dive: Slide Software Basics: Slides, Text, Object, and Transitions
Chapter 12: Understanding Speech Genres
What are Speech Genres?
On Breaking the Rules: Genre Violation
Chapter 13: Celebratory Speaking
Celebrating Your Community
Types of Celebratory Speeches
Digital Dive: The Toast: The Ubiquitous Speech of Honor and Goodwill
Chapter 14: Informative Speaking
The Informing Genre
Digital Dive: Is There Any Speech that is Not Persuasive? ?
Tips for Informing
Chapter 15: Persuasive Speaking
Understanding Persuasion
The Persuasive Appeal
Digital Dive: Using Aristotle's Triangle to Analyze Speeches
Chapter 16: Making Arguments
What’s an Argument?
Digital Dive: Claim vs. Thesis
Organizing Persuasive Speeches
Chapter 17: Speaking in the Workplace
Speaking for Your Vocation
Speaking at Work
Interviewing for a Job
Digital Dive: Ethical Considerations for Speaking in the Workplace
Chapter 18: Speaking Online
Understanding Online Presentations: Purpose and Type
Adapting to the Amorphous Audience
Conducting Online Presentations
Digital Dive: Tips for Do-It-Yourself Home Video Lighting
Public or Private? It’s Hard to Say
Chapter 19: Speaking for Social Change
Public Speaking and Social Movements
Civil Obedience and Civil Disobedience
Digital Dive: Arresting Developments: Protesting and the Police
Speech, Not Swords: The Humane Alternative of Public Speaking
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