Speech Craft

Whether toasting friends or persuading an audience Speech Craft gives you an edge in speech making with its emphasis on connecting public speaking to your own life.

Chapter 1: Building Confidence in the Craft

The Celebrated and Feared Power of Speech

Digital Dive: A First Teacher of Public Speaking: Gorgias

The Freedom of Speech

High Anxiety: The Fear of Public Speaking

Public Speaking as a Civic Conversation

The Craft of Speech

Getting Up There: Fake it Until You Make It

Basic Speech Prep and Delivery

Let's Do This!

Chapter 2: Listening and the Ethics of Speech

Speaking With An Open Ear

Communication and Understanding: Listening Beyond Noise

An Ethics of Speaking As a Listener

Digital Dive: Plagiarism is Just Plain Nasty

Checking Out Your Speech Location

Who Is Your Audience?

Digital Dive: A Deeper Focus on Audience Members and Age

Gathering Info about Your Audience

Audience Psychology: Identification and Core Values

Audience Psychology: All You Need is Love (and Identification)

Feelings: More on Audience Disposition

Chapter 4: Choosing a Speech Topic and Purpose

Developing a Dynamite Topic

Digital Dive: Finding Your Inspiration

Mind Storm: Concept Mapping and Other Explosives

Narrowing your Topic: What’s your Purpose?

From Topic to Thesis

Chapter 5: Researching Your Speech Topic

Why Research Matters

How to Research a Speech

Digital Dive: The Three Heck’s of Internet Source Reliability

Don’t Forget to Cite Your Sources!

Types of Speech Support

Digital Dive: Types of Testimony

Contextual Reasoning

Chapter 7: Organizing and Outlining Your Speech

Organizing Your Speech

Outlining Your Speech

Digital Dive: Outlining Challenge! To Selfie or Not To Selfie?

Chapter 8: Transitions, Introductions, and Conclusions

Introducing Your Speech

Transitions

Digital Dive: Conclusions about Conclusions

Concluding Your Speech

Chapter 9: Style & Language

What is Style?

Choosing Your Words

On Rhythm and Word Choice

Digital Dive: The Effect of Repetition and Rhythm

Using Language that Uses Us: Cultivating Awareness

Nonverbal Communication and Tone

Body Language

Digital Dive: Accents and Dialects

A Good Pair of Shoes: Grooming and Dressing to Speak

Enhancing Your Speech Using Presentation Aids

Preparation and Presentation Guidelines

Presentation Software: Slides, Slides, Slides!

Digital Dive: Slide Software Basics: Slides, Text, Object, and Transitions

What are Speech Genres?

On Breaking the Rules: Genre Violation

Celebrating Your Community

Types of Celebratory Speeches

Digital Dive: The Toast: The Ubiquitous Speech of Honor and Goodwill

The Informing Genre

Digital Dive: Is There Any Speech that is Not Persuasive? ?

Tips for Informing

Understanding Persuasion

The Persuasive Appeal

Digital Dive: Using Aristotle's Triangle to Analyze Speeches

What’s an Argument?

Digital Dive: Claim vs. Thesis

Organizing Persuasive Speeches

Speaking for Your Vocation

Speaking at Work

Interviewing for a Job

Digital Dive: Ethical Considerations for Speaking in the Workplace

Understanding Online Presentations: Purpose and Type

Adapting to the Amorphous Audience

Conducting Online Presentations

Digital Dive: Tips for Do-It-Yourself Home Video Lighting

Public or Private? It’s Hard to Say

Public Speaking and Social Movements

Civil Obedience and Civil Disobedience

Digital Dive: Arresting Developments: Protesting and the Police

Speech, Not Swords: The Humane Alternative of Public Speaking

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