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Public speaking / Michael Osborn, Suzanne Osborn, Randall Osborn

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston, MA : Pearson/Allyn & Bacon, 2009Edition: 8th edDescription: xxii, 552 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9780205582846
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN4129.15 .O83 2009
Summary: "Centered around three core objectives — helping readers develop vital communication skills, encouraging speaker adaptability to diverse audiences, and sensitizing speakers to the ethical impact of their words — Public Speaking offers both practical advice and an understanding of why such advice works. The eighth edition concentrates on greater simplicity, clarity, and accessibility. The book offers a functional approach to informative speaking and emphasizes the ethics of persuasive speaking. These ideas come to life through examples from real, student, and professional speeches, Exploration and Application exercises at the end of each chapter, and a variety of boxed features throughout the book." --|cAmazon.com
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Nairobi Campus General Circulation Non-fiction PN4129.15 .O83 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Insructor's Annotated Edition 1 Available 048937
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PN4129.15 .L83 2012 The art of public speaking / PN4129.15 .M48 2006 Building foundation for communication & bulding a speech / PN4129.15 .N46 2009 iSpeak : PN4129.15 .O83 2009 Public speaking / PN4129.15 .P83 2010 Public speaking and civic engagement / PN4129.15 .S45 2005 Confident public speaking / PN4129.15 .V37 2008 Speak with confidence :

Includes bibliographical references and index

Instructor's Annotated edition

"Centered around three core objectives — helping readers develop vital communication skills, encouraging speaker adaptability to diverse audiences, and sensitizing speakers to the ethical impact of their words — Public Speaking offers both practical advice and an understanding of why such advice works. The eighth edition concentrates on greater simplicity, clarity, and accessibility. The book offers a functional approach to informative speaking and emphasizes the ethics of persuasive speaking. These ideas come to life through examples from real, student, and professional speeches, Exploration and Application exercises at the end of each chapter, and a variety of boxed features throughout the book." --|cAmazon.com

Eastern Copy gift of Charles Bensie; 2013

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