TY - BOOK AU - Lucas,Stephen AU - Stob,Paul TI - The art of public speaking SN - 1260548090 AV - PN4129.15 .L83 2020 PY - 2020/// CY - New York, NY PB - McGraw-Hill Education KW - Public speaking N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages N1-N7) and index; Speaking in public -- Ethics and public speaking -- Listening -- Giving your first speech -- Selecting a topic and a purpose -- Analyzing the audience -- Gathering materials -- Supporting your ideas -- Organizing the body of the speech -- Beginning and ending the speech -- Outlining the speech -- Using language -- Delivery -- Using visual aids -- Speaking to inform -- Speaking to persuade -- Methods of persuasion -- Speaking on special occasions -- Presenting your speech online -- Speaking in small groups N2 - "Fully updated for the thirteenth edition, the award-winning Art of Public Speaking offers a time-tested approach that has made it the most widely used college textbook on its subject in the world. Providing clear, authoritative coverage and written in a voice that speaks personably to students, it helps them become capable, responsible speakers, listeners, and thinkers. Seamlessly coordinated with Connect, McGraw-Hill Education's pathbreaking online program, it supplies a proven set of teaching and learning tools that is without parallel among public speaking books"-- ER -