Public speaking guides
From Word To Play: A Textual Handbook for Actors and Directors
By Cicely Berry
An invaluable guide for actors, as well as an enlightening read for anyone interested in theatre.
Great Speeches For Better Speaking (Book + Audio CD): Listen and Learn from History\'s Most Memorable Speeches
By Michael E Eidenmuller
What person faced with speaking in public wouldn't want some pointers from great speakers like John F Kennedy or Ronald Reagan? This work outlines the six areas that are critical for making an impact with a speech - situation, content, structure, style, delivery, rhetorical strategies and tactics. It also features...
Speak to Win: How to Present with Power in Any Situation
By Brian Tracy
Learning to become a dynamic speaker is as easy as learning to ride a bike! In Speak to Win, premier speaker and success expert Brian Tracy shares his most powerful presentation secrets and time-tested tricks of the trade that readers can use to become the powerful and persuasive speaker he...
Pocket Keys for Speakers
By Isa N. Engleberg
Combining the expertise of two successful Houghton Mifflin authors, this handbook offers students a practical, "how-to" approach to speaking throughout their academic and professional careers. In addition, the authors clearly distinguish the principles of oral and written communication and provide quick references on grammar and mechanics. The text's convenient handbook...
Presentation Skills
By Patsy McCarthy
With its combination of practical tips and case studies from the experts, this book will help you to become a more powerful and persuasive speaker.
Be the Best Best Man & Make a Successful Speech
By Phillip Khan-Panni
Champion professional speaker Phillip Khan-Panni shows how to make your best man's speech your own, and create great impact with techniques on writing, compelling advice, guidance on delivery and sample speeches.
Speaking Your Mind: Oral Presentation and Seminar Skills
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.
The Elements of Speechwriting and Public Speaking
By Jeff Scott Cook
The essential guide to preparing and delivering powerful, eloquent, and well-received speeches, reducing panic and nervousness, and enjoying all types of speaking engagements.
Art of Rhetoric
By Aristotle
This text examines Aristotle's "Rhetoric" as a classic treatise on the arts of public speaking and persuasion which played a role in the civic life of Greece. These arts, which evolved a highly formalized tradition of technique, were connected with the study of political and moral theory.