Effective Speaking

"Effective Speaking" provides the hard scientific information about audience psychology, text preparation, presentation methods, voice production, body language and persuasive advocacy which will help would-be speakers improve their performance. The emphasis throughout is on practical self-help, on methods which have been shown to work, with clear explanations of just why they are effective.

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Communicating in Speech	p. 1
Notes to Chapter One	p. 11
The Audience	p. 13
Selecting, Planning and Arranging the Material	p. 43
Notes to Chapter Three	p. 69
Starting, Carrying On, and Ending	p. 72
Making Notes	p. 85
Coping with Nerves: the Credibility Problem	p. 100
Timing and Bad Timing	p. 117
Intonation and Variety	p. 129
Notes to Chapter Eight	p. 143
Non-Verbal Communication	p. 145
Notes to Chapter Nine	p. 164
Arranging the Physical Environment for a Talk	p. 167
Notes to Chapter Ten	p. 179
Visual Aids	p. 181
Persuasive Advocacy	p. 210
Notes to Chapter Twelve	p. 233
Question Time: Leading a Group Discussion and Answering Questions	p. 236
Further Reading	p. 252
Conclusion	p. 254
A Specialist Bibliography	p. 256
Index	p. 271
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