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Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Specific skills > Speaking / pronunciation skills > Public speaking / elocution
While victims of antebellum lynchings were typically white men,
postbellum lynchings became more frequent and more intense, with
the victims more often black. After Reconstruction, lynchings
exhibited and embodied links between violent collective action,
American civic identity, and the making of the nation. Ersula J.
Ore investigates lynching as a racialized practice of civic
engagement, in effect an argument against black inclusion within
the changing nation. Ore scrutinizes the civic roots of lynching,
the relationship between lynching and white constitutionalism, and
contemporary manifestations of lynching discourse and logic today.
From the 1880s onward, lynchings, she finds, manifested a violent
form of symbolic action that called a national public into
existence, denoted citizenship, and upheld political community.
Grounded in Ida B. Wells's summation of lynching as a social
contract among whites to maintain a racial order, at its core,
Ore's book speaks to racialized violence as a mode of civic
engagement. Since violence enacts an argument about citizenship,
Ore construes lynching and its expressions as part and parcel of
America's rhetorical tradition and political legacy. Drawing upon
newspapers, official records, and memoirs, as well as critical race
theory, Ore outlines the connections between what was said and
written, the material practices of lynching in the past, and the
forms these rhetorics and practices assume now. In doing so, she
demonstrates how lynching functioned as a strategy interwoven with
the formation of America's national identity and with the nation's
need to continually restrict and redefine that identity. In
addition, Ore ties black resistance to lynching, the acclaimed
exhibit Without Sanctuary, recent police brutality, effigies of
Barack Obama, and the killing of Trayvon Martin.
Expert speaking coach Ian Nichol writes a thorough and
authoritative guide to public speaking. Written in an engaging and
informative style, with a great undercurrent of humour, Stand and
Deliver! makes for a relaxing and highly enjoyable read, which
reinforces Ian's no-nonsense message on how readers can
dramatically improve their speaking performances. Ian's unfailing
honesty when setting out his personal experiences of triumph and
disaster will inspire readers, teaching them that what works for
one person may not work for another. Stand and Deliver! provides
countless practical tips and suggestions in a highly pragmatic text
that will boost readers' confidence. By demolishing destructive
myths about public speaking, Ian shows readers how to think
positively about nerves and use them to help, not hinder. Offering
straightforward advice this book demonstrates that everyone can
speak confidently in public by challenging preconceptions and
providing a wide range of tools to success.
Have you ever seen a great presenter, up on stage or in a meeting,
and wondered what makes them so good? Have you noticed the way they
engage and inspire the audience? Have you ever wished you could do
that? Now you can! This book reveals the presenter's secret weapon
and puts it in your hands: Storytelling. It shows you how to stop
reading slides and start telling stories that make an impact in any
business situation. It's packed with techniques and examples that
you can start using today. John Clare has been telling stories for
more than 40 years. He's been a journalist, documentary maker and a
presentation coach to some of the world's biggest companies. This
book gives you the benefit of all that experience. Your
presentations will never be the same again.
The revised edition of 20 Questions about Youth and the Media is an
updated and comprehensive guide to today's most compelling issues
in the study of children, tweens, teens and the media. The editors
bring together leading experts to answer the kinds of questions an
undergraduate student might ask about the relationship between
young people and media. In so doing, the book addresses a range of
media, from cartoons to the Internet, from advertising to popular
music, and from mobile phones to educational television. The
diverse array of topics include government regulation, race and
gender, effects (both prosocial and risky), kids' use of digital
media, and the commercialization of youth culture. This book is
designed with the undergraduate youth/children and media classroom
in mind, and features accessible writing and end-of-chapter
discussion questions and exercises.
5th Edition Now Available! The Confident Speaker's Handbook is
written for the students at Raritan Valley Community College in
Central New Jersey, and most of the examples and sample speeches in
the text are their work. And while students in any college public
speaking class can certainly benefit from using this textbook, it
is definitely written to fit the Speech program at RVCC, which in
fact focuses on a practical, hands-on approach to public speaking.
The Confident Speaker's Handbook by Thomas Valasek: incorporates in
this book what the author has learned from teaching Speech classes
at RVCC for more than 40 years, as well as what he's learned from
collaborating with many dynamic, innovative colleagues. is helpful
and accessible, especially the chapters on managing anxiety about
public speaking, building basic presentation skills, and developing
effective introductions and conclusions. includes fine-tuned and
revised chapters to expand more extensively on developing
informative and persuasive presentations.
James Wynn's compelling investigation into citizen science
highlights public-based studies and probes the rhetoric these
studies employ. Many of these endeavors, such as the widely-used
SETI@home project, simply draw on the processing power of
participants' home computers; others, like the protein-folding game
FoldIt, ask users to take a more active role in solving scientific
problems. In Citizen Science in the Digital Age: Rhetoric, Science,
and Public Engagement, Wynn analyzes the discourse and rhetoric
that enable these scientific ventures, as well as the difficulties
that arise in communication between scientists and lay people and
the potential for misuse of publicly gathered data. Wynn puzzles
out the intricacies of these exciting new research developments by
focusing on various case studies. He explores the Safecast project,
which originated from crowd-sourced mapping for Fukushima radiation
dispersal, arguing that evolving technologies enable public
volunteers to make concrete, sound, science-based arguments.
Additionally, he considers the potential use of citizen science as
a method of increasing the public's identification with the
scientific community, and contemplates how more collaborative
rhetoric might deepen these opportunities for interaction and
alignment. Furthermore, he examines ways in which the lived
experience of volunteers may be integrated with expert scientific
knowledge, and also how this same personal involvement can be used
to further policy agendas. There are precious few texts exploring
the intersection of rhetoric, science, and the Internet. Citizen
Science in the Digital Age aims to fill this gap, offering a clear,
intelligent overview of the topic intended for rhetoric and
communication scholars as well as practitioners and administrators
of a number of science-based disciplines. With the expanded
availability of once inaccessible technology and computing power to
laypeople, the practice of citizen science will only continue to
grow. This study offers insight into how-given prudent
application-citizen science might elucidate the rhetoric and
strengthen the relationships between scientists and laypeople.
Michelle Obama: First Lady, American Rhetor is an edited anthology
that explores the persona and speech-making of the country's first
African American first lady. The result of these thought-provoking
essays is an interdisciplinary text that explores the First Lady
from a rhetorical and cultural point of view. Authors analyze her
Democratic National Convention speeches, her brand as First Lady,
her communication from her latest trip to Africa, her agenda
rhetoric in Let's Move! and Reach Higher, and her coming out as a
Black feminist intellectual when she spoke at Maya Angelou's
memorial service. Readers will recognize Michelle Obama as a rhetor
of our times-a woman who influences America at the intersections of
gender, race, and class and who is representative of what women are
today.
This book aspires to make an expedient contribution to the
trust-based body of knowledge. Various disciplines analyze the
notion of "trust", by addressing it from their own perspectives.
The fact that the importance of multilevel and cross-level
perspectives is gaining increasing attention in communication
management has led to a call for examining trust across levels of
communication analysis. The authors approach trust from the
standpoint of different sub-branches of communication discipline,
including brand management, public relations research, comparative
advertising, health communication, political communication and
digital communication. In addition, this book provides empirical
evidence from a wide range of cases in Turkey, seeking to both
reveal the existing situation in details and open up a world of new
questions and lines of enquiry to pursue for future research.
Bhaarateey saahityakaaroon meen saahityakaar dhy raveendranaath
taigoorr sharat candr aur vibhuutibhuushan bandyoopaadhyaay tatha
hindee saahityakaaroon meen candradhr sharma guleeree,
jayashankaraprasaad aur preemacand kahaaneeleekhan kee ksheetra
meen anany hain. In saahityakaaroon kee prasi (shreeshth
kahaaniyaan is pustak mee sankalit hain, joo maanav man kee
bhaavanaoon koo udveelit karanee vaalee hain. Prakaashan kee
ksheetra meen pratham baar bangala aur hindee kahaaneekaaroon kee
kahaaniyoon ka sangam aur sankalan hai, yah pustak sabhee kee liee
pathaneey aur sangrahaneey pustak hain, hindee saahityakaaroon kee
paanc shreeshth kahaaniyaan aap bhee padhan ee, parivaar koo bhee
parhanee koo deen.(Classical Indian literature revolves aroud
Rabindranath Tagore, Sharat Chandra, Chandradhar Sharma Guleri,
Jaishankar Prasad and Premchand and other prolific writers. They
have attained immortality on account of their sensitivityfilled
writing power. The book consists of their stories in condensed
forms that lend a great impact on human mind. The stories reflect
rural setting and the kind of life people lived a century ago. )
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