Basic Public Speaking, 2nd Edition-   The Roadmap to Confident Communications 

Douglas Parker, M.Ed.

 

Information about Basic Public Speaking, 2nd Edition -   The Roadmap to Confident Communications

Basic Public Speaking, 2nd Edition - The Roadmap to Confident Communications  is unrivaled among public speaking guides.  It is the only text available that:

-takes a skills-based humanistic and sometimes humorous approach to the psychology and strategies that must be in place before a person can develop as a speaker;

-improves their confidence by slowly and sequentially accentuating their essential speaking skills;

-presents topics in twenty-one developmentally sequenced classroom speech activities, each building upon the skills that were achieved by the student in the previous speech;

-serves as a primary resource for schools and districts satisfying their Language Arts learning standards for creating their writing, listening and speaking benchmarks;

-emphasizes the student being aware of what is happening during a speech and how to develop hands-on strategies for taking control of the process and its outcome;

-employs unique hands-on webbing techniques for creating speeches, and is an updated version of a best-selling resource that was sold to schools, libraries, students, businesses and individuals interested in gaining the confidence to become better communicators.

Read a sample speech chapter.

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Read about Positive Speech Conditioning.

Read the Table of Contents.

Read about the author's qualifications.

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The majority of the resources in the book are generated from Mr. Parker's twenty-five years of teaching experience at the secondary, collegiate and professional levels.  Further, these resources are substantiated by the best current research available on students' learning styles and hands-on learning techniques.

 

 

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