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Spiders, death, dentists, snakes and flying are in the list of the
top ten fears of businesspeople (Book of List). But the top
position is held by "public speaking". So great is this fear that
most businesspeople have a single objective: to get off the
platform as soon as possible. This book, based on a hugely
successful course given to thousands of businesspeople, shows how
anyone can speak with confidence to an audience of any size. Laced
with humour and wit, the author emphasizes that you don't have to
be a brilliant orator to be an effective speaker in business.
Simply being good is plenty, because 95% of all business presenters
are so awful! 10 reasons you must buy this book and avoid "death by
slide-show"! 1. Most business audiences have a single objective: to
get out of the room. 2. Most business presenters have a single
objective: to sit down in the audience again. 3. Most corporate
audiences can't remember, 24 hours later, what was presented, the
title of the presentation or the presenter's name. 4. Like it or
not, 55% of the persuasive power of a presentation is transmitted
by the speaker's body language, 38% by the speaker's voice tone and
only 7% by the content. 5. 75% of speaker-nerves disappear with
correct rehearsal. 6. You can discover how to generate applause
when you want it. 7. There is a simple model you can use which will
create a terrific presentation for you every time. 8. Bullet points
are not what slides are for, and using all capital letters makes
long stretches of text very hard to read. 9. Reading words off
slides (as most presenters do) puts your audience to sleep in about
30 seconds. 10. Good presenters are very rare. When you become a
good presenter you can often negotiate better employment terms, a
higher salary, and even get yourself promoted - I did... so can
you! [Facsimile reprint edition]
"Splashy slides, confident body language, and a lot of eye
contact are fine and well. But if a speech is rambling, illogical,
or just plain boring, the impact will be lost. Now everyone can
learn to give powerful, on-target speeches that capture an
audience's attention and drive home a message. The key is not just
in the delivery techniques, but in tapping into the power of
language.
Prepared by an award-winning writer, this authoritative
speech-writing guide covers every essential element of a great
speech, including outlining and organizing, beginning with a bang,
making use of action verbs and vivid nouns, and handling questions
from the audience. Plus, the book includes excerpts from some of
history's most memorable speeches--eloquent words to contemplate
and emulate."
This unique portfolio puts at your fingertips 158 model speeches
covering virtually every topic a school administrator must address.
Included are speeches for holidays, speeches for celebrations,
speeches for parent/teacher meetings, plus eulogies, testimonials,
introductions and much more. Each speech feature special data as to
its topic, audience, time of presentation, pitfalls to avoid, as
well as suggestions for movements or gestures and strategies for
getting maximum audience involvement.
OUTLINE OF CONTENTS
- Part I: Effective Model Speeches For All Occasions
- 1. Icebreakers and anecdotes that are dignified -- yet
funny
- 2. Introductions and transitions you can use when serving as
MC
- 3. A variety of speeches for opening or closing a program
- 4. Speeches that aid in effective school-- community
communications
- 5. Speeches to use when addressing your fellow educators
- 6. Speeches that will help you motivate and inspire any
audience
- 7. Dynamic speeches for retirements and testimonials
- 8. Dignified and meaningful eulogies and testimonials
- 9. Speeches for special occasions -- from a find-raising
kick-off to a graduating class address
- 10. Lively holiday speeches for use throughout the school
year
- Part II: An Administrator's Blueprint for Preparing and
Delivering a Speech
- 11. A step-by-step guide for preparing and delivering a speech
from scratch, all based on practical experience
- 12. An administrator's Survival Guide for Avoiding the pitfalls
of public speaking
Plus: The School Administrator's Locatomatic Index of Speech Topics
and Occasions
Speaking Greek supports the second edition of the bestselling
beginner's course, Reading Greek, by providing on two CDs lively
new recordings of some of the ancient texts presented in the Text
volume. Made by experts and accompanied by special sound effects,
the tracks include readings from Homer, Herodotus, Euripides,
Aristophanes and Demosthenes. There is also a new introductory
track containing a talk by Professor David Langslow about the
sounds of ancient Greek. An accompanying leaflet provides a
summary, a description of technical terms and further reading.
These new CDs will enlighten the experience of the student of
ancient Greek, demonstrating that this was a living language,
spoken as well as read.
Communication expert and popular speaker Quentin Schultze offers a
practical, accessible, and inspiring guide to public speaking,
showing readers how to serve their audiences with faith, skill, and
virtue. This thoroughly rewritten and expanded four-color edition
has been tested and revised with input from Christian
undergraduates and contains new chapters on timely topics, such as
speaking for video, conducting group presentations, and engaging
society civilly. A complete public speaking textbook for Christian
universities, it includes helpful sidebars, tips, and appendixes.
Additional resources for students and professors are available
through Textbook eSources.
Quintilian, born in Spain about 35 CE, became a widely known and
highly successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. "The Orator's
Education" ("Institutio Oratoria"), a comprehensive training
program in twelve books, draws on his own rich experience. It is a
work of enduring importance, not only for its insights on oratory,
but for the picture it paints of education and social attitudes in
the Roman world.
Quintilian offers both general and specific advice. He gives
guidelines for proper schooling (beginning with the young boy);
analyzes the structure of speeches; recommends devices that will
engage listeners and appeal to their emotions; reviews a wide range
of Greek and Latin authors of use to the orator; and counsels on
memory, delivery, and gestures.
Donald Russell's new five-volume Loeb Classical Library edition
of "The Orator's Education," which replaces an eighty-year-old
translation by H. E. Butler, provides a text and facing translation
fully up to date in light of current scholarship and well tuned to
today's taste. Russell also provides unusually rich explanatory
notes, which enable full appreciation of this central work in the
history of rhetoric.
When Donald J. Trump announced his campaign for president in 2015,
journalists, historians, and politicians alike attempted to compare
his candidacy to that of Governor George C. Wallace. Like Trump,
Wallace, who launched four presidential campaigns between 1964 and
1976, utilized rhetoric based in resentment, nationalism, and anger
to sway and eventually captivate voters among America's white
majority. Though separated by almost half a century, the campaigns
of both Wallace and Trump broke new grounds for political
partisanship and divisiveness. In Fear, Hate, and Victimhood: How
George Wallace Wrote the Donald Trump Playbook, author Andrew E.
Stoner conducts a deep analysis of the two candidates, their
campaigns, and their speeches and activities, as well as their
coverage by the media, through the lens of demagogic rhetoric.
Though past work on Wallace argues conventional politics overcame
the candidate, Stoner makes the case that Wallace may in fact be a
prelude to the more successful Trump campaign. Stoner considers how
ideas about "in-group" and "out-group" mentalities operate in
politics, how anti-establishment views permeate much of the
rhetoric in question, and how expressions of victimhood often
paradoxically characterize the language of a leader praised for
"telling it like it is." He also examines the role of political
spectacle in each candidate's campaigns, exploring how media
struggles to respond to-let alone document-demagogic rhetoric.
Ultimately, the author suggests that the Trump presidency can be
understood as an actualized version of the Wallace presidency that
never was. Though vast differences exist, the demagogic positioning
of both men provides a framework to dissect these times-and perhaps
a valuable warning about what is possible in our highly digitized
information society.
You have a wonderful opportunity to add to the magic of your
daughter's wedding. Your words will linger in memories -- they may
even be captured on video for future generations to hear. So what
are the golden rules of speech making? How can you convey emotion,
seriousness, and add a touch of humour? Should you offer advice to
the happy couple, and what about the toast? The answers are all
here in this vital book. Use it to add something special to an
already special day.
A step-by-step approach to becoming confident with public speaking.
Calvin DeGrey's practical guide to the art and business of speaking
and entertaining draws on his extensive experience as a stand-up
comedian and public speaker. Chapter by chapter, the problems and
pitfalls of speaking in public (a serious fear for many) are dealt
with systematically, delivering a solid toolkit for foolproof
public speaking. The book covers voice, style, speech, content and
format, dealing with hecklers, being an MC, managing events and
professionalism.
This book challenges social science to address the most important
social change since the industrial revolution: the mediated
communication order. More of our everyday lives and social
institutions reflect the compelling media logic that resonates
through conversation, interaction, marketing, as well as social
programs, issues and foreign policy. We are beyond the time when
people take into account media matters; rather, media matters are
now incorporated as a kind of social form in routine and
extraordinary activities. This thesis was first laid out in 'Media
Logic', co-authored with Robert P. Snow in 1979. Thirty-five years
on, Altheide discusses his recent thinking about how media logic
and mediation is a basic element in constructing social reality.
From the internet to the NSA, he shows how media logic has
transformed audiences into personal networks guided by social
media. He argues that we have reached the media edge as social
media have all but eviscerated the audience as a significant factor
in the communication equation; mediated communication is
increasingly about media performances and individual selection to
promote identity.
This book also comes as part of a pack with audio CDs: ISBN
9781406678970 Talk Spanish (Book) has already inspired thousands of
people to learn Spanish from scratch and is great support if you're
attending a Spanish class. . Whether you're learning for business,
travel or just for fun, its straightforward, step-by-step approach
will ensure you're soon able to speak Spanish in a range of
everyday situations. With specially designed activities and clear,
jargon-free grammar explanations you'll quickly develop your
language skills and make genuine progress right from the start.
Make real progress using the successful, proven Talk method.
Develop your language skills with tips and strategies to help you
learn. Practise and learn with interactive activities to support
every topic. Also available: Talk Spanish Pack (includes this book
and 2 x 60-minute CDs) ISBN 9781406678970 Also available: Talk
Spanish Complete ISBN 9781406679243, which combines the bestselling
Talk Spanish 1 (this book and 2 x 60-minute CDs), Talk Spanish 2
(book and 2 x 60-minute CDs) and Talk Spanish Grammar (book). Other
languages in the series: Arabic, French, German, Greek, Italian,
Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, and Russian
www.bbcactivelanguages.com
This book has won the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award 2014.
Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has evolved from a niche service
to a mass phenomenon; it has become instrumental for everyday
communication as well as for political debates, crisis
communication, marketing, and cultural participation. But the basic
idea behind it has stayed the same: users may post short messages
(tweets) of up to 140 characters and follow the updates posted by
other users. Drawing on the experience of leading international
Twitter researchers from a variety of disciplines and contexts,
this is the first book to document the various notions and concepts
of Twitter communication, providing a detailed and comprehensive
overview of current research into the uses of Twitter. It also
presents methods for analyzing Twitter data and outlines their
practical application in different research contexts.
More than ever, professional English is now cruising towards an
enormous challenge in the European university context due to the
extremely significant moment we are living in the European Higher
Education Area (EHEA). The European convergence process is
demanding immediate reflections, serious analyses, and profound
reforms in specialized language teaching that lead to reach Bologna
standards by 2010. This book aims to present an overview of
professional English in the current academic landscape in Europe.
It intends to shed light on a range of issues, both theoretical and
practical, related to ESP, focusing on discourse analysis, corpus
analysis, information and communication technologies,
methodological approaches, curriculum design, and empirical
research into language learning in broad terms. Because teachers
need to be researchers and inquirers, this overview thus makes a
contribution to the professional English field with the purpose of
highlighting several important questions in the entire ESP academic
mainstream. Scholars from different European universities explore
specialized languages and document ESP teaching methodologies at
university levels from a multidimensional perspective.
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