Speaking Your Mind: Oral Presentation and

This book is designed with the belie that the key to good speaking is an awareness of audience and context and knowledge of the techniques of argumentation or rhetoric.

Author's Acknowledgements

viii

Publisher's Acknowledgements

x

Introduction

1

(3)

Rebecca Stott

How to use this book

4

(2)

Conversations and seminars

6

(24)

Anna Snaith

Conversation

6

(5)

Analysing conversation

11

(6)

Gender and conversation

17

(2)

Literary conversations

19

(2)

Seminars

21

(1)

Analysing seminars

22

(5)

Chairing seminars

27

(1)

Summary

28

(2)

Rhetoric and argument

30

(19)

Rebecca Stott

Argument

30

(2)

Analysing argument

32

(8)

Rhetoric

40

(4)

Analysing rhetoric

44

(4)

Summary

48

(1)

Shakespeare and Renaissance rhetoric

49

(19)

Nigel Wheale

Politics, class and rhetoric in Shakespearean England

49

(3)

Rhetoric in the grammar schools

52

(1)

Dialogue, gender, and a rhetorical duel

53

(2)

Rhetoric and the drama of persuasion

55

(2)

Tropes: the building blocks of rhetoric

57

(3)

Using tropes: Julius Caesar

60

(3)

Using tropes: Hamlet

63

(4)

Summary

67

(1)

Everyday rhetorics

68

(22)

Simon Featherstone

Rhetoric in the criminal court

69

(3)

Rhetoric is everywhere

72

(2)

Rhetoric in selling

74

(8)

Rhetoric in story-telling

82

(6)

Summary

88

(2)

Preparing your case

90

(16)

Rebecca Stott

When is a presentation helpful?

90

(2)

Preparation: knowing your audience

92

(7)

Invention or gathering material

99

(3)

Disposition or arrangement of material

102

(1)

Style or expressing the argument

103

(2)

Summary

105

(1)

Presenting your case

106

(17)

Cordelia Bryan

Learning presentation skills

107

(1)

Types of presentation

108

(4)

Register

112

(2)

Overcoming your nerves

114

(2)

Giving and receiving feedback

116

(1)

Using anecdotes, analogies and examples

117

(1)

Practice makes perfect

118

(2)

Notes, demonstrations and visual aids

120

(1)

Some final preparations

121

(1)

Summary

122

(1)

Appendix 1: Sample criteria sheet for peer oral assessment

123

(2)

Appendix 2: Sample practice presentation scenarios

125

(2)

Glossary

127

(3)

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