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Description : Practically Speaking is a brief text that covers the essentials of public speaking without sacrificing student interest or sound scholarship. Using a conversational and edgy style, author Dan Rothwell gives practical advice and a fresh perspective on classic and contemporary theories and research. This essential guide provides students with a solid foundation in public speaking and then teaches them how to add their own voices to the conversation. Features:- * Each chapter follows the rules of good organizational logic presented in Chapter 7 * Unique and humorous examples, stories, quotations, photos and cartoons, intense, dramatic, and poignant illustrations, vivid language and metaphors and startling statistics and historical facts * Numerous pop-culture references and newsworthy events * More than 500 sources, both classic and contemporary * The "Communication Competence Model", carefully developed in Chapter 1, serves as the theoretical basis for all advice offered * A unique Chapter (9), "Skepticism: Becoming Critical Thinking Speakers and Listeners" * A separate chapter on speech anxiety * A full chapter on gaining and maintaining attention * Two full chapters on persuasive speaking that provide theoretical explanations for general and specific persuasive strategies
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