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The University of Alabama Press Rhetorical Machines Writing Code and
Book SynopsisAddresses new approaches to studying computational processes within the growing field of digital rhetoric. While computational code is often seen as value-neutral and mechanical, this volume explores the underlying, and often unexamined, modes of persuasion this code engages.
£47.96
The University of Alabama Press Lives Letters and Quilts Women and Everyday
Book SynopsisApplies a translingual and transmodal framework informed by feminist rhetorical practice to three distinct case studies that demonstrate women using unique and effective rhetorical strategies in political, religious, and artistic contexts.Trade ReviewLives, Letters, and Quilts is an engaging read. The case study chapters provide interesting background and analysis, and as a study of quotidian forms of rhetorical resistance, this book makes a valuable contribution." - Robert E. Terrill, author of Malcolm X: Inventing Radical Judgment and Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of CitizenshipTable of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction. (Un)Conventional Means: Recontextualizing Everyday Rhetorics of Resistance Chapter 1. The Pen as Sword: The Townsend Letter-Writing Campaigns and the Case of Pearl Burkhalter Chapter 2. With Pen and Prayer: The Life and Ministry of Eliza P. Gurney Chapter 3. 'The Needle as the Pen': Recontextualizing the Discourses of Quilts and Quiltmaking Conclusion. 'What Is This Thing You Call a Pen?': The Courage of Ordinary Americans Notes Bibliography Index
£40.80
The University of Alabama Press Architects of Memory Information and Rhetoric in
Book SynopsisProbes the development of information management after World War II and its consequences for public memory and human agency. Nathan Johnson charts turning points where concepts of memory became durable in new computational technologies and modern memory infrastructures took hold.Trade ReviewArchitects of Memory is poised to make an original and important contribution to the interdisciplinary study of the rhetorics of public memory and information science. Johnson is at his best when illuminating the actual techniques of public memory - the hard, everyday material ways in which key arbiters organize public memory." - Timothy Barney, author of Mapping the Cold War: Cartography and the Framing of America's International PowerTable of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Building Memory's Infrastructure Chapter 2. A Universal Memory Machine Intermezzo: Exorcising the Library Spirit: Library Labor as a TechnÊ of Memory Chapter 3. Hybrid Memory Labor Intermezzo: Calvin Mooers's Zatocodes Chapter 4. Memory Conflicts Intermezzo: Dorothy Crosland's Book Truck Chapter 5. Memory's Coin Chapter 6. Memory's Infrastructure Notes References Index
£40.80
University of Alabama Press Feminist Connections Rhetoric and Activism across
Book SynopsisContributors to this volume highlight continuities in feminist rhetorical practices that are often invisible to scholars, obscured by time, new media, and wildly different cultural, political, and social contexts. Thus, this collection takes a nonchronological approach to the study of feminist rhetoric, grouping chapters by rhetorical practice.Trade Review“This collection puts forward a groundbreaking methodology for exploring connections between feminist texts across time. Asking critics to momentarily suspend context, content, and media, the contributors foreground similarities between rhetorical strategies that emerged at different moments of feminist activism. This method enables critics to see the interstitial and intersectional relationships between and among feminist rhetorics of all eras, arguments, and media. This methodology enables critics to put into conversation Victorian novels with #LikeALadyDoc, Ida B. Wells with #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, Jane Addams with #EuEmpregadaDomÉstica, women telegraphers with women coders, and early birth control technology with HIV prevention drugs.” —Belinda A. Stillion Southard, author of How to Belong: Women’s Agency in a Transnational World “In their beautifully conceived and timely anthology, Feminist Connections, Katherine Fredlund, Kerri Hauman, and Jessica Ouellette manage what has seemed to be impossible. They have successfully disrupted feminist reception histories while seamlessly illuminating feminist social movement histories, feminist rhetorical strategies (both means and tools), and feminist technological epistemologies. Their collection, anchored in a method they refer to as Rhetorical Transversal Methodology (or RTM), prompts readers to face twenty-first-century questions of feminist rhetorical practices; historiographic relationships, intersections, and trajectories; and the constitution of digital work itself.” —Cheryl Glenn, University Distinguished Professor of English at Penn State University and author most recently of Rhetorical Feminism and This Thing Called HopeTable of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword: Writing against Reactionary Logics by Tarez Samra Graban Acknowledgments Introduction. Exposing Feminist Connections by Katherine Fredlund, Kerri Hauman, and Jessica Ouellette Part I. Revisionary Rhetorics by Kerri Hauman Chapter 1. Seneca Falls, Strategic Mythmaking, and a Feminist Politics of Relation by Jill Swiencicki, Maria Brandt, Barbara LeSavoy, and Deborah Uman Chapter 2. Epideictic Rhetoric and Emergent Media: From CAM to BLM by Tara Propper Chapter 3. Recruitment Tropes: Historicizing the Spaces and Bodies of Women Technical Workers by Risa Applegarth, Sarah Hallenbeck, and Chelsea Redeker Milbourne Chapter 4. Take Once Daily: Queer Theory, Biopolitics, and the Rhetoric of Personal Responsibility by Kellie Jean Sharp Part II. Circulatory Rhetorics by Jessica Ouellette Chapter 5. She's Everywhere, All the Time: How the #Dispatch Interviews Created a Sisterhood of Feminist Travelers by Kristin Winet Chapter 6. From Victorian Novels to #LikeALadyDoc: Women Physicians Strengthening Professional Ethos in the Public Sphere by Kristin E. Kondrlik Chapter 7. Feminist Rhetorical Strategies and Networked Activist Movements: #SayHerName as Circulatory Activist Discourse by Liz Lane Chapter 8. From US Progressive Era Speeches to Transnational Social Media Activism: Rhetorical Empathy in Jane Addams's Labor Rhetoric and Joyce Fernandes's #EuEmpregadaDomÉstica (I, Housemaid) by Lisa Blankenship Part III. Response Rhetorics by Katherine Fredlund Chapter 9. “Anonymous Was a Woman”: Anonymous Authorship as Rhetorical Strategy by Skye Roberson Chapter 10. Tracing the Conversation: Legitimizing Mormon Feminism by Tiffany Kinney Chapter 11. The Suffragist Movement and the Early Feminist Blogosphere: Feminism and Recent History of Rhetoric by Clancy Ratliff Chapter 12. Mikki Kendall, Ida B. Wells, and #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen: Women of Color Calling Out White Feminism in the Nineteenth Century and the Digital Age by Paige V. Banaji Chapter 13. The Persuasive Power of Individual Stories: The Rhetoric in Narrative Archives by Bethany Mannon Afterword. (Techno)Feminist Rhetorical Action: Coming Full Circle by Kristine L. Blair Bibliography List of Contributors Index
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The University of Alabama Press Corporal Rhetoric
Book SynopsisDrawing on feminist historiography and genre studies, Corporal Rhetoric explores the rhetoric of medical research, new technologies, and material practices that shifted the idea of childbirth as an act of God or Nature, to a medical procedure enacted by male physicians on the bodies of women made passive by both drugs and discourse.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Preconceptions Chapter 2. The Virtue of Efficiency Chapter 3. Physicians Who Are Qualified; Women Who Are Not Chapter 4. Margaret Sanger: The Performance of Polemic Chapter 5. The Tender Cover of the Law Chapter 6. The Children's Bureau: Into the Care of the State Chapter 7. Lillian Gilbreth: The Engineer of Motherhood Chapter 8. Consequences Notes Works Cited Index
£39.91
The University of Alabama Press The Child before the Court
Book SynopsisAnalyses landmark US Supreme Court cases involving children's free speech and due process rights and argues that our ideas about civic and legal judgment are deeply contested concepts instead of simple character traits.Trade Review“Are children true citizens under the Constitution? Timothy Barouch provides a detailed and subtle analysis drawing on clusters of cases to explore the principal models addressing child citizenship. Because children are ‘in between’ noncitizenship and full citizenship, Barouch deftly uses his analysis to develop important insights into the promise of an ‘inclusive citizenship.’ This book will be a critical resource for theorists of democracy, legal rhetoricians, and constitutional scholars.”- Francis J. Mootz III, author of Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and Critical Legal Theory;“Children make trouble for the law. Not by virtue of what they do, but by virtue of who they are. Law is challenged to recognize and acknowledge both their humanity and their distinctiveness. The Child before the Court offers an unusual and insightful analysis of those challenges. Its attention both to judicial opinions and public discourse make it a very valuable resource for interdisciplinary exploration. It is theoretically sophisticated, and it uses that sophistication to offer a compelling illumination of the ways law comprehends childhood.”- Austin Sarat, editor of Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular Culture and Knowing the Suffering of Others: Legal Perspectives on Pain and its Meanings;""The Child Before the Court: Citizenship and the Constitution demonstrates how judicial representations of the ‘child’ serve as a representative anecdote for understanding and negotiating the problem of ‘judgment’ in modern and late-modern US liberal-democratic public culture. The analysis of judicial discourse is both careful and deft, and the conclusions regarding the affordances of legal decision making and the crafting of judgment in public culture writ large are compelling. More than just a study of the rhetoric of legal discourse it is a model for how we might engage challenges to the legitimacy of liberal-democracy in contemporary times.”- John Louis Lucaites, coauthor of The Public Image: Photography and Civic Spectatorship
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The University of Alabama Press I the People
Book SynopsisExamines a variety of texts - ranging from speeches and campaign advertisements to news reports and political pamphlets - to outline the populist character of conservatism in the United States. Paul Elliott Johnson focuses on key inflection points in the development of populist conservatism.Trade Review“Paul Johnson’s I The People offers a theoretically rich lens for understanding the paradoxes of modern conservative rhetoric, drawing together rhetorical, psychoanalytic, and political theory. Johnson attends astutely to the interarticulation of toxic white masculinity and conservative populism in the United States, offering insights into both contemporary iterations of political culture and to their historical antecedents.”- Claire Sisco King, author of Washed in Blood: Male Sacrifice, Trauma, and the Cinema;“Anyone who wants to understand the rhetorical appeal of modern conservatism should read this book. I The People shows how conservative constructions of ‘the people’ frame democracy as a threat to individual freedom- even at the highest levels of government. Paul Johnson exhumes a new history of rhetorical appeals and communicative strategies to examine how conservative populisms articulate diversity and the common good as sources of individual trauma. An important and timely read.”- Elisabeth R. Anker, author of Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom
£39.91
The University of Alabama Press Climate Politics on the Border
Book SynopsisExplores the ways climate change and extreme weather are negotiated politically in a border community. Kenneth Walker takes a place-based approach to his study of San Antonio to explore how extreme weather events and responses to them shape local places, publics, and politics.
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The University of Alabama Press Faithful Deliberation
Book SynopsisInvestigates the rhetorical practices that contemporary evangelical Christian women use to confront theological and cultural issues that stymie deliberation within their communities regarding how to respond to sexual assault and domestic violence, with an eye toward both compassion for victims and accountability for perpetrators.
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The University of Alabama Press The Practice of Rhetoric
Book SynopsisPresents an account of rhetoric that presumes and incorporates theoretical approaches, offering a collection of principles assembled in the heat and trials of public practice. The essays are inspired by the capacious conception of rhetoric put forth by historian of rhetoric Jeffrey Walker, best known for stressing rhetoricâs educational mission.
£39.91
The University of Alabama Press Oligarchy in America
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The University of Alabama Press The Haunted West
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The University of Alabama Press Modern Occult Rhetoric
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University of Alabama Press Ancient Rhetorics and Digital Networks
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAncient Rhetorics and Digital Networks is a strong edited collection that makes a unique contribution to two different areas within the field of rhetoric that are merging quickly into a tight intersection."" - Jenny Rice, author of Distant Publics: Development Rhetoric and the Subject of Crisis
£28.86
The University of Alabama Press Rhetorical Machines
Book SynopsisAddresses new approaches to studying computational processes within the growing field of digital rhetoric. While computational code is often seen as value-neutral and mechanical, this volume explores the underlying, and often unexamined, modes of persuasion this code engages.Trade ReviewRhetorical Machines provides an extension of current work in digital rhetoric, and helps to add a nuanced and more usable framework than more surface contentions about whether rhetoric and rhetorical agency is limited to humans or can be inhabited and deployed by machines/algorithms/software agents."" - Douglas Eyman, author of Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice""Rhetorical Machines is a timely, interesting, and important collection of essays that makes a valuable contribution to rhetorical studies as well as to the study of technology—especially in terms of questions of computation."" - Brenton J. Malin, author of Feeling Mediated: A History of Media Technology and Emotion in AmericaTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction by John Jones and Lavinia Hirsu Part I: Emergent Machines Chapter 1. A Conversation with A.L.I.C.E. Chapter 2. Engines of Rhetoric: Charles Babbage and His Rhetorical Work with Mechanical Computers by Jonathan Buehl Chapter 3. Definitive Programs: Rhetoric, Computation, and the (Pre)history of Controversy over Automated Essay Scoring, 1954–1965 by J. W. Hammond Chapter 4. Treating Code as a Persuasive Argument by Kevin Brock Part II: Operational Codes Chapter 5. A Conversation with Mitsuku Chapter 6. The Mathematical Assumptions within Computational Literacy by Jennifer Juszkiewicz and Joseph Warfel Chapter 7. Inventing Rhetorical Machines: On Facilitating Learning and Public Participation in Science by Ryan M. Omizo, Ian Clark, Minh-Tam Nguyen, and William Hart-Davidson Chapter 8. Race within the Machine: Ambient Rhetorical Actions and Racial Ideology by Joshua Daniel-Wariya and James Chase Sanchez Part III: Ethical Decisions and Protocols Chapter 9. A Conversation with Elbot Chapter 10. Metis in Code: CV Dazzle and the Wily Encounter with Code Libraries by Anthony Stagliano Chapter 11. Good Computing with Big Data by Jennifer Helene Maher, Helen J. Burgess, and Tim Menzies Chapter 12. Nasty Women and Private Servers: Gender, Technology, and Politics by Elizabeth Losh Part IV: Responses Chapter 13. Rhetorical Devices by James J. Brown Jr. Chapter 14. Full Stack Rhetoric: A Response to Rhetorical Machines by Annette Vee Bibliography Contributors Index
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The University of Alabama Press Writing as Punishment in Schools Courts and
Book SynopsisLooks at many instances of writing as punishment, including forced tattooing, drunk shaming, court-ordered letters of apology, and social media shaming, with the aim of bringing understanding and recognition to the coupling of literacy and subjection.Trade ReviewAsking, at core, if our writing inside and outside the classroom must advance erudition, Writing as Punishment chronicles how that script has been perverted to argue that 'writing is a viable tool for disciplining, controlling, brainwashing, shaming, demeaning, subjugating, and humiliating others.' This book more than proves its points. The writing is fantastically crisp; the thesis sound (and soundly provocative). However queasy-making, Schaffner's individual case studies are each perfectly selected. His conclusions are, to say the least, wickedly inspired."" - Scott Herring, author of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture""This book's focus on the 'darker' side of writing is as intriguing as it is illuminating. Accessibly written and powerfully argued, Schaffner's book finds that the beliefs that underlie generative approaches to writing are the very ones that underlie its use of writing as punishment."" - Debra Hawhee, author of Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, SensationTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. ""I Will Not Chew Gum in Class"": Punishing Children with Writing Chapter 2. Shame Parades Chapter 3. Writing on the Wasted Chapter 4. Forced Tattooing Chapter 5. Writing, Self-Reflection, and Justice Conclusion: Seeing Writing in a Dim Light Notes Works Cited Index
£19.76
The University of Alabama Press Cookery Food Rhetorics and Social Production
Book SynopsisThe rhetoric of food is more than just words about food, and food is more than just edible matter. Cookery: Food Rhetorics and Social Production explores how food mediates both rhetorical influence and material life through the overlapping concepts of invention and production.Trade ReviewCookery contributes to the fields of rhetoric a sophisticated mapping of how our consummatory pleasures are enmeshed in symbolic significance, including those moments where what is legible as food, desire, and satiation exceeds extant frames of meaning and feeling." - Isaac West, author of Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the LawTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Soiled Donovan Conley and Justin Eckstein 1. Brewing Influence: The Mixology of Morals Katie Dickman and Nathaniel A. Rivers 2. The Terroir and Topoi of the Lowcountry Anna Marjorie Young and Justin Eckstein 3. Food Pornography Casey R. Kelly 4. Rhetorically Strange Foods Jeff Rice 5. More than a Membrane Donovan Conley Afterword Greg Dickinson References Contributors Index
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The University of Alabama Press Suburban Dreams
Book SynopsisStarting with the premise that suburban films, residential neighbourhoods, chain restaurants, malls, and megachurches shape and materialize the everyday lives of residents and visitors, Greg Dickinson offers a rhetorically attuned critical analysis of contemporary American suburbs and the good life' their residents pursue.
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The University of Alabama Press Reframing Rhetorical History
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of essays that reassess history as rhetoric and rhetorical history as practice.
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The University of Alabama Press The Haunted West
Book SynopsisOffers a rich interpretation of the region's vexed history through a detailed study of the commemorative practices enactedand withheldat a landmark American museum.
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New Society Publishers Im Right and Youre an Idiot 2nd Edition
Book SynopsisExplor[es] the underlying history and psychology of public discourse . . . should be required reading for politicians and public advocates. Real Change The most pressing problem we face today is not climate change. It is pollution in the public square, where a toxic smog of adversarial rhetoric, propaganda, and polarization stifles discussion and debate, creating resistance to change and thwarting our ability to solve our collective problems.In this second edition of I'm Right and You're an Idiot, James Hoggan grapples with this critical issue, through interviews with outstanding thinkers and drawing on wisdom from highly regarded public figures. Featuring a new, radically revised prologue, afterword, and a new chapter addressing the changes in the public discourse since the 2016 US election, his comprehensive analysis explores: How political will is manipulated How tribalism shuts down open-minded thinking, undermiTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue: A Beginner's Mind Part I: The Polluted Public Square Section A: Smashing Heads Doesn't Open Minds 1. Like Ships in the Night with Daniel Yankelovichand Steve Rosell 2. The Advocacy Trap with Roger Conner 3. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)with Carol Tavris 4. Morality Binds and Blinds with Jonathan Haidt 5. Why We Want to Be Misled with Dan Kahan Section B: A Failure to Communicate 6. Facts Are Not Enough with George Lakoff 7. Matters of Concern with Bruno Latour Section C: Duped and How 8. The Self-regulating Psychopath with Joel Bakan and Noam Chomsky 9. Steve Bannon's Full-service Propaganda Machine with research by Carole Cadwalladr 10. Foreign-funded Radicals 11. Assault on Democracy with Alex Himelfarb 12. Silencing the Voices of Others with Jason Stanley 13. Gaslighting Blurs Our Reality with Bryant Welch 14. Summary: The Polluted Public Square Part II: Speak the Truth, But Not to Punish Section D: Leaning into the Future 15. Power and Love with Adam Kahane 16. No Fish? No Fish Sticks with Peter Senge 17. Listen Deeply with Otto Scharmer Section E: The Mighty Tool of Public Narrative 18. What Are They Thinking? with Anthony Leiserowitz and Ed Maibach 19. The Myth of Apathy with Renee Lertzman 20. Psychic Numbing with Paul Slovic 21. Sometimes David Wins with Marshall Ganz Section F: From the Heart 22. The Golden Rule with Karen Armstrong 23. Tending Our Inner Ecology with Joan Halifax 24. Speak the Truth, But Not to Punish with Thich Nhat Hanh 25. We Need Warmheartedness with the 14th Dalai Lama Epilogue: Hope, Compassion, and Courage Notes IndexAbout the Author About New Society Publishers
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Library Story Hour from A to Z
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAlligators. Bubbles. Camping. Dinosaurs. Eggs. Frogs. Gingerbread. Home. Insects. Jam and Jelly. Kings and Knights. Love. Monsters. Nighttime. Outer Space. Pirates. Quilt. Rain Forest.
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Business and Technical Communication Services Limited Get Rid of your Accent for Beginners
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Philip Johnston 50 Drills for Debating Public Speaking
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LID Publishing Inc. Grace Under Pressure
Book SynopsisSimple, no-nonsense tools to improve your public speaking skills.
£11.04
Cambridge University Press Compelling Communication
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£22.99
Cambridge University Press The Language Work of Speechwriters
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Speaking with a Purpose
Book SynopsisNow in its 11th edition, Speaking with a Purpose is designed to help speakers develop the skills they need to prepare and deliver effective speeches.Using a traditional step-by-step approach combined with up-to-date communication theory, this no-frills textbook allows students to prepare, practice, and present speeches. This new edition places greater emphasis on the skills needed to communicate effectively both online and offline. It analyses the similarities and differences between in-person speaking and online video conferencing and explores technical online attributes such as best Zoom protocols. This new edition also provides a deeper focus on the ethics and ethical implications associated with communicating in public and assesses issues such as trustworthiness, integrity, and respect for others.A valuable resource in the traditional, online, or hybrid classroom, this is an essential textbook for general courses in public speaking and speech commTable of Contents1. Speech Communication 2. Audience Analysis 3. Determine Your Purpose and Subject 4. The Introduction and Conclusion 5. Gathering Supportive Material 6. Supporting Your Ideas 7. Organizing the Body of Your Speech 8. Delivering Your Speech 9. Informing 10. Persuasion 11. Group Communication 12. Speaking Online 13. The Tech Savvy Leader
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Well Spoken
Book SynopsisTeachers at all grade levels in all subjects have speaking assignments for students, but many teachers believe they don''t know how to teach speaking, and many even fear speaking to groups themselves.In Well Spoken veteran teacher and education consultant Erik Palmer shares the art of teaching speaking in any classroom. Teachers will find thoughtful and engaging strategies, lessons, and tips for integrating speaking skills throughout the curriculum. Palmer stresses the essential elements of all effective oral communication used in one-to-one, small group, large group, formal, informal, in-person, and digital situations including:? Building a Speech: Audience, Content, Organization, Visual Aids, and Appearance? Performing a Speech: Poise, Voice, Life, Eye Contact, Gestures, and Speed? Evaluating a Speech: Creating Effective Rubrics, Guiding Students to ExcellenceIn this updated second edition, Palmer
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SAGE Publications Inc The Choreography of Presenting
Book SynopsisDramatically increase your effectiveness as a presenterLike a well-choreographed dance, an effective presentation involves leading and following, building rapport and trust, sharing passions, and living in the moment. In The Choreography of Presenting, global consultant and educator, Kendall Zoller reveals the common dance steps effective presenters employ to create optimum learning environments for their audiences. Following the 7 Essential Abilities of Effective Presenters Framework and emphasizing the importance of planning and flexibility, this thoroughly updated edition includes: A new chapter on how to use the crucial first 5 minutes of any presentation to establish credibility, build connections, and gauge group dynamics A new, timely chapter on designing and facilitating impactful and memorable virtual presentations A new chapter on the structure of presenting, from gathering intel to design wit
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Voice and Speaking Skills For Dummies
Book SynopsisEver wondered why nobody hears you in meetings, or wished people would take you more seriously? Or maybe you feel insecure about your high-pitched voice? This book helps you to discover the power of your voice, understand how it works, and use your voice like a professional whether in meetings, or addressing an audience.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I: Introducing the Human Voice 7 Chapter 1: Having a Great Voice 9 Chapter 2: Exploring the Amazing Human Voice 27 Chapter 3: Getting to Know Your Own Voice 39 Part II: Beginning with Voice Basics 57 Chapter 4: Discovering How to Breathe Well 59 Chapter 5: Rediscovering Relaxation 77 Chapter 6: Turning Sound into Speech 95 Part III: Playing Your Instrument Well 113 Chapter 7: Exploring Volume and Speed 115 Chapter 8: Filling Your Speech with the Sounds of Music 133 Chapter 9: Expressing Yourself Fully with the Power of Resonance 153 Chapter 10: Uncovering Your Unique Voice 175 Part IV: Beating the Voice Gremlins 193 Chapter 11: Stopping Vocal Sabotage 195 Chapter 12: Putting the Accent on Accents 217 Chapter 13: Conquering Hesitation and Stuttering 235 Part V: Engaging with a Broader Public 257 Chapter 14: Developing Your Public Voice 259 Chapter 15: Tuning In to Others 283 Chapter 16: Cultivating Your Professional Voice 301 Part VI: The Part of Tens 319 Chapter 17: Ten Ways to Sound More Authoritative 321 Chapter 18: Ten Ways to Speak with Charisma 327 Chapter 19: Ten Ways to Take Care of Your Voice 333 Chapter 20: Ten Inspiring Voices 339 Appendix A: Resources for Further Developing Your Voice 345 Appendix B: Audio Tracks 351 Index 353
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McGraw-Hill Education The Art of Public Speaking Connect Access Card
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McGraw-Hill Education Loose Leaf for Public Speaking for College
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£140.40
McGraw-Hill Companies Loose Leaf for Public Speaking Matters
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OM Book Service Loose Leaf for the Art of Public Speaking 2023
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Cengage Learning, Inc Communicate
Book SynopsisBecome a successful communicator in all your personal and professional endeavors--whether they''re face-to-face or virtual--with COMMUNICATE! 15th Edition. This book will engage you in active learning with theory, application and tools for practicing and assessing specific communication skills in interpersonal, intercultural, group, and public speaking settings. Skill-building exercises, including speech-plan action step activities, guide students through the speech preparation process. COMMUNICATE! provides lively contemporary examples and sample student speeches that ground theory, increase comprehension, and help students become skillful communicators. The role of ethics in communication is integrated throughout the text, as is the role of technology and social media. The chapters on listening (Ch. 6) and presentational aids (Ch. 13) have been significantly revised.Table of ContentsUnit I: FOUNDATIONS OF COMMUNICATION. 1. Foundations of Communication. 2. Perception of Self and Others. 3. Intercultural Communication. 4. Verbal Messages. 5. Nonverbal Messages. 6. Listening. Unit II: INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS. 7. Interpersonal Relationships. 8. Interpersonal Communication. Unit III: GROUP COMMUNICATION. 9. Communicating in Groups. 10. Group Leadership and Problem Solving. Unit IV: PUBLIC SPEAKING. 11. Topic Selection and Development. 12. Organizing Your Speech. 13. Presentational Aids. 14. Language and Oral Style. 15. Delivery. 16. Informative Speaking. 17. Persuasive Speaking. Appendix: Interviewing. References. Index.
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W. W. Norton & Company Contemporary Public Speaking
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The Purposeful Argument A Practical Guide Brief
Book SynopsisEmphasizing the practical and the local, THE PURPOSEFUL ARGUMENT: A PRACTICAL GUIDE, BRIEF EDITION, 2E effectively brings argument into real life with community-based writing activities, illustrating that the tools and skills of argument are critical to readers today-and wherever their careers take them. With a focus on accessibility, the text encourages students to argue in response to issues in a variety of environments-school, workplace, family, neighborhood, social-cultural, consumer, and concerned citizen-and learn how argument can become an essential negotiating skill in everyday life. It offers thorough treatments of Toulmin-based and Rogerian approaches to argument as well as teaches the value of fully understanding the opposition, the importance of aiming for the middle ground, and how to use a microhistory to forge an unconventional position. The only introduction to argument written with the today's diverse student body in mind, THE PURPOSEFUL ARGUMENT uses vivid explanationTable of ContentsPart I: HOW TO APPROACH ARGUMENT IN REAL LIFE. 1. Argue with a Purpose. What Argument Is and What Argument Is Not. ���Graduating Debtors��� by Thomas Frank. Recognize Where Argument Is Appropriate in Real Life. Argue About Issues that Matter to You. Establish Local Context for an Issue Through the Research Process. Recognize Why Arguments Break Down. Match Argument with Purpose. 2. Explore an Issue that Matters to You. Determine What Matters to You and Why. Choose an Issue within a Topic. Pre-Think About Your Issue. Define and Target Your Audience. Stake, Defend, and Justify Your Claim. Vary the Support You Bring to an Argument. Working with a Target Audience: Two Examples. Argue at the Right Moment. Getting Started. Part II: HOW TO ESTABLISH CONTEXT THROUGH RESEARCH. 3. Develop a Research Plan. Use Reference Works, Encyclopedias, and Topic Overviews Profitably. Gather Search Terms. Use Search Engines to Find Internet Sources on the Surface Web and on the Deep Web. Perform Keyword Queries. Find News Sites and Use RSS Feeds to Receive Updates. Find and Use Databases in Libraries. Find and Use Primary Sources. Find and Use Government Sources. Find and Use Multimedia Sources. Find Books. 4. Evaluate and Engage with Your Sources. Take Notes, Read Critically, and Evaluate Internet Sites. Take Notes, Read Critically, and Evaluate Articles. Take Notes and Read Books Critically. Take Notes and Evaluate Primary Sources. Introduce and Comment on Sources. Quote and Cite Quotations. Summarize and Cite Summaries. Paraphrase and Cite Paraphrases. Avoid Plagiarism. Documentation: Works Cited Page. 5. Read Critically and Avoid Fallacies. Define Fallacies. Identify and Avoid Fallacies. Avoid Fallacies of Choice. Avoid Fallacies of Support. Avoid Fallacies of Emotion. Avoid Fallacies of Inconsistency. 6. Work Fairly with the Opposition. Why the Opposition Matters. Resist Easy Generalizations. Listen to Local Voices. Summarize Other Voices Fairly. Value Expertise Over Advocacy. Avoid Bias When You Summarize. Find Points of Overlap. Respond to Other Views. Part III: HOW TO PLAN, STRUCTURE AND DELIVER AN ARGUMENT. 7. Develop a Strategy. 8. Consider Toulmin-Based Argument. 9. Consider Middle Ground and Rogerian Argument, and Argument based on Microhistory. 10. Build Arguments. 11. Support an Argument with Fact (Logos), Credibility (Ethos), and Emotion (Pathos). Part IV: HOW TO TAKE OWNERSHIP OF YOUR ARGUMENT: A STYLE GUIDE. 12. Enhance Your Argument with Visuals and Humor. What Are Visual Arguments? Read Visual Arguments. Use Humor in Your Argument. When Is Humor Appropriate? 12. Develop and Edit Argument Structure and Style.
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John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd Gravitas
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HarperCollins Focus The Art of the Tale
Book SynopsisWinner of a 2023 Storytelling World AwardUnleash the power of storytelling to transform your talks, speeches, and presentations—whether your audience is a boardroom of executives, a classroom of students, or an auditorium full of eager listeners.Everyone, regardless of their background and training, can improve their storytelling abilities. But what is a story? How can you tell it in a way that delights and informs your listeners? Take a journey into the keys to great storytelling with two of the country’s top experts on story presentation and speech writing.In The Art of the Tale, expert storytellers Steven James and Tom Morrisey team up and tap into their lifetimes of experience to show you how to prepare stellar presentations, tell stories in your own unique way, adapt your material to different groups of listeners, and gain confidence in your ability as a speaker. In this book, you’ll learn why:
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HarperCollins Focus Habla para influenciar
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Orion Publishing Co Speak Your Truth
Book SynopsisTHE INSPIRING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER''Fearne Cotton is a tireless seeker of the truth, and a wonderful communicator of sanity, hope, and (most refreshingly of all) reality. This is, simply put, a beautiful book.'' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic''During a time where misinformation is spreading faster than ever and people are finding it hard to keep it real, Fearne shows us the power of living in our truth. She has a magical way of making us feel understood through her compelling storytelling, while showing us a path to a more authentic life.'' Vex King, author of Good Vibes, Good Life''This book is going to help a lot of people.'' Philippa Perry, author of The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read''Loved it - without judgement, but with a cheeky wink of wisdom, Fearne gives you the tools that she''s learned on her own journey.'' Skin, Skunk Anansie
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Simon & Schuster As We Speak How to Make Your Point and Have It
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Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S. Public Speaking Responsibility in a Changing
Book SynopsisCritical thinking and communication competencies are twin necessities for today's world. This book serves as a springboard to help students excel in public speaking. Learners are asked to seriously consider using their rhetorical skills in an artful manner, to be the ethical and positive connection they seek for the common good of society.
£100.80
Little, Brown Book Group Stand Speak Deliver
Book SynopsisPublic speaking and presenting rank in the top ten of people''s greatest fears. Yet being able to speak coherently and persuasively in a speech, seminar or meeting room is important when progressing our careers and living our lives to the fullest.In this book, 37 pithy, lively and witty mini-speeches tell us how to construct and deliver a speech or presentation. Each example speech follows a simple, perfect structure which will soon become imprinted in your mind. Each focuses on one facet of speaking and gives you the very essentials picked up by the author over 25 years of experience.And each speech will entertain as much as inform you.Stand, Speak, Deliver! will enable you to learn how to use your eyes, vary your voice and move your body. It will also look at how to inform, entertain, humour, persuade, motivate or inspire the audience; how to present, to colleagues or clients; how to introduce a speaker; and how to wow as best man. AnTrade ReviewThis is an extraordinary book that will immediately improve your ability to stand up and speak to any audience on any subject. -- Brian Tracy, success guruThis book fizzes with vitality and oozes valuable advice. Ideal for the starter speaker - and some neat tips too for those further along the road. -- Yvonne Jordan, Britain and Ireland Champion of Public SpeakingThere is a real danger that this book will turn public speaking into something that you can actually enjoy. -- Graham Davies, speaker and author of The Presentation CoachThis book ticks so many boxes with its many different tips and techniques but also adds the lighter touch, the sprinkling of humour throughout. Enjoy the ride! -- Sue Warner, founder, Speakers TrustThis is a zingy, inspiring and practical book, peppered with scintillating quotes and examples. I love the many acronyms, like EET, 3Rs etc. It really fired me up - and I learned a lot! -- Cao Jun Cao, PhD researcher, novice speakerAs a speaker, Vaughan has tremendous charisma and a sense of fun - but he also possesses rich insight into the art of public speaking. Packed with practical tips, advice and wisdom, this book gives you a short-cut to more than 25 years of his public speaking expertise - and wit! Highly recommended, especially to those new to the art. -- Simon Bucknell, speaker, coach, Britain and Ireland Champion of Public Speaking, 2006 & 2007This is a wonderful work, shining with inspiration, humour and common sense (the least common of the senses). Beautifully written and filled with anecdotes, it is a must-have speaking tool. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned speaker, this book will help you to get to the next level AND have fun while getting there! -- Sonia Aste, comedianVaughan Evans is a very experienced speaker, offering a unique format but also a viewpoint gained in the school of hard knocks. This is simple, practical, common-sense advice, given in a distinctively readable and accessible manner. -- Jock Elliott, World Champion of Public Speaking, 2011Practical, effective and proven ways to improve your speaking, conveyed with great wit. Not surprising - Vaughan learnt it all from his contemporaries - Dickens, Twain, Wilde...! -- Aldous Lippard, marketing managerThis is a smashing read. Vaughan Evans writes as he speaks, with authority, passion and confidence. Read this book and, just as if you were listening to him, you will come away educated, entertained and informed - or you will wake up refreshed! -- Mike Silverman, media executive, former governor of Toastmasters in Britain and IrelandHugely entertaining and thoroughly useful. Reading this book is like watching playback of my favourite comedy show - I can skip, fast forward or rewind at will to a punchline that hits - or bombs! This book is a true gift - a lifetime of wisdom and practical help to anyone who gives a damn about effective communication. -- Lo Luong Lo, investor, experienced speakerJust as Vaughan's voice is easy on the ear, so this book is easy on the eye and flows instinctively through the art of engaging your audience. It had me laughing, it had me crying. Unfortunately I was laughing at the serious bits and crying at the humour (where did I nick that from?). It's not a dry summation of learning to speak publicly - it oozes passion and is an articulate, fascinating, funny, informative, instructive and highly entertaining work. -- Jeremy Mitchell, eccentric speaker of 15+ years’ experienceI walked into a Toastmasters meeting in 1995 not knowing what to expect. It was a life-changing experience. So many good speakers and a few brilliant ones. Vaughan Evans was one of the few. If you can't join the club, buy this book! -- Bill Russell, speaker, improviser, Britain and Ireland Champion of Impromptu Speaking, 1999 & 2002There's a reason most of us would rather be lying in the casket than delivering the eulogy. Public speaking, scary though it seems, is a blend of art and science - and Vaughan Evans shares the secrets with generosity and humour. Armed with 100% proven strategies, his wisdom is all you need to wow an audience of any size or disposition. -- Max Eames, Harley Street psychotherapist and author of Strings into SteelIf I believed I couldn't speak in public, but I HAD to do it, I'd read this book. Then I'd know I could do it. The secret is in here, all in one place. This book will do three quarters of the work. The rest is practice. I've got half a bookshelf of public speaking books - I'm binning them! This one replaces the lot. You may not have Vaughan's wonderful voice, but he's giving everything else away. Grab it! -- Jenny Cutler, speaker of 15+ years’ experienceWant to stand on stage, frozen rigid, eyes downcast, speaking to the floor, occasionally glancing up to watch the audience yawn? Then don't read this book. If you do, and if you act on just 10% of what's in it, you'll be able to stand, connect, project and, ultimately, deliver. -- Peter Aleksin, stand-up comedianThe prospect of public speaking can be torturous, intimidating, stomach-churning. Want to know how those emotions can be swept aside? Vaughan Evans offers the breakdown, the solution, the experience of how to stand and deliver. He's a master of the art, and you cannot fail to learn from this brilliant and entertaining breakdown of every potential pitfall. Read and speak! -- Dominic Hart, sports journalist
£8.99
Little, Brown Book Group Making a Short Speech or Toast
Book SynopsisMost people are called upon to make a speech or toast at some point in their lives. This book will help the inexperienced speaker to stand up with confidence, and deliver a really effective speech or toast that is appropriate for the occasion. It also contains a variety of toasts and quotes to help those with more experience in public speaking.There are guidelines on how to prepare and deliver a mini speech, including tips on introducing humour and how to avoid embarrassing your audience with inappropriate material. A special section includes interesting quotes and toasts to insert into a wedding speech, whether it''s by the best man or woman, bridegroom or father of the bride. A workbook section helps the reader with ideas for appropriate beginnings and endings to speeches. There is even an A-Z of sample toasts for all occasions including anniversaries, achievements, and business occasions; and for a range of subjects such as love, life, and frie
£6.39
Little, Brown Book Group The Modern Couples Guide to Wedding Speeches
Book SynopsisGroom or bride, straight or gay. Nail the perfect words to say.There''s no longer an excuse for wedding speeches to be a tedious succession of predictable platitudes, outdated etiquette and cheesy wedding gags. This book is for nearlyweds who want to make their wedding speeches one of the day''s highlights.Written by Heidi Ellert-McDermott, award-winning wedding speechwriter and founder of Speechy, this guide will help you write and deliver a speech that''s memorable for the right reasons.Heidi''s advice has been quoted everywhere from the Daily Mail to the New York Times, and with insights and trade secrets from comedians, TV scriptwriters and wedding influencers, this is the ultimate toolkit for couples wanting to make their wedding speeches a little more wonderful.Create a lifelong memory as you: Plan the perfect speech line up Decide how to represent your union ''on mic'' Swot up on modTrade ReviewA wonderful book for couples who want to prepare a memorable speech and create something personalised for such a special occasion -- Eleonora Tucci * Weddings & Honeymoon Media *This comprehensive guide is a must-have for any modern couple who want their wedding speeches to be creative and curated - no cookie-cutter templates here! -- Zoe Burke * Hitched *For as long as there have been speeches, there's been a need for advice on how to give great ones. Heidi's book provides anyone giving a speech - wedding or otherwise - with the tools, tips and tricks to turn the mic-shy into great orators, and great orators into history makers! -- Eduardo Braniff * Men's Vows *The perfect book for couples who want to break the rules and avoid clichés when it comes to their wedding day speeches -- Kat Williams * Rock n Roll Bride *This book will ensure you spend your big day enjoying yourself, not being nervous about your speech! -- Hamish Shephard, founder of BridebookAs most of us have witnessed bad wedding speeches, this is a timely and necessary accessory for any couple and their wedding party, filled with immediately usable tips and techniques -- Alan Berg, professional speaker, author and host of the Wedding Business Solutions Podcast
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