New Edition Now Available!
Welcome to Public Speaking for Leadership & Advocacy! The ability to speak confidently and competently to an audience is empowering. Whether you intend to use your public speaking in the community, the workplace, online or in the classroom, you’ll discover the fundamental building blocks of successful speeches and acquire the skills to deliver memorable presentations. As Dale Carnegie states, if you have something to say and your story is clear and true, people will listen.
Public Speaking for Leadership & Advocacy provides the tools needed to create and deliver effective speeches with confidence, civility, and poise. The book sets itself apart from other speech texts by combining a foundation in effective public speech with an underpinning in ethical leadership and advocacy practices. Chapters include:
- historical speech case studies for analysis;
- discussion questions emphasizing speech as a tool for ethical leadership and advocacy;
- online resources for additional and future research;
- theoretical applications for real world situations;
- and community-based and service-oriented activities geared toward developing civic responsibility.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part One: Foundations of Communication, Leadership, and Advocacy
Chapter 1: Elements of Effective Public Speaking
Chapter 2: Leadership and Advocacy through Public Speech
Chapter 3: Purpose, Audience, Occasion, Tone, and Delivery
Part Two: Establishing Credibility, Trust, and a Dynamic Delivery
Chapter 4: Organization, Research, and Information Fluency
Chapter 5: Memorable Storytelling and Rhetorical/Stylistic Devices
Chapter 6: Technological Innovation and Presentation Aids
Part Three: Speech Forms and Speech Environments
Chapter 7: Information – Speaking to Explain and Demonstrate
Chapter 8: Argumentation – Speaking to Persuade and Debate
Chapter 9: Inspiration/Motivation – Speaking to Advocate and Lead
Part Four: Speaking as a Global Digital Citizen
Chapter 10: Legal and Ethical Issues in Public Speech
Chapter 11: Fundamentals of Speech Streaming and Storage
Chapter 12: Basics of Effective Podcasts, Vidcasts/vlogs, and Webinars
Chapter 13: Writing Speech Manuscripts & Outlines
Appendices