public speaking

Examines the methods of famous public speakers, among them Francis Bacon, Mark Twain, and Martin Luther King, Jr., to show how they kept the attention of their audiences, and explains how to learn from them.

Presents a series of frameworks designed to help storytellers improve their skills, discussing the transfer of mental imagery through oral language; and exploring the storyteller's relationships with each feature of the storytelling triangle.

Contains strategies and warm-up exercises designed to help students in grades four through eight improve their oral presentation skills.

Contains the unabridged texts of eighty-three speeches by Americans such as Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Franklin Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton, presented in chronological order from 1865 to 1997.

A collection of over two thousand quotations for public speakers, drawn from history, literature, and politics; grouped in fifty categories ranging from action to youth, and including an author index.

A step-by-step guide demonstrating methods to improve your communication and public speaking skills. Including learning to be natural, organization of thoughts, delivery, improving and fine-tuning the voice, and much more.