Product Description

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.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #166082 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 544 pages

From the Back Cover

Public Speaking, 8/e

Michael Osborn, University of Memphis

Suzanne Osborn, University of Memphis

Randall Osborn, University of Memphis

 

 

Centered around three core objectives — helping you develop vital communication skills, encouraging you to adapt as you speak to diverse audiences, and increasing your sensitivity to the ethical impact of words — Public Speaking offers you both practical advice for speaking in public and an understanding of why such advice works.  The Eighth Edition concentrates on greater simplicity, clarity, and accessibility, offering you a functional approach to informative speaking and emphasizing the ethics of persuasive speaking. These ideas come to life through examples from real student and professional speeches, exercises at the end of each chapter, and a variety of boxed features throughout the text.

 

New and Enduring Features of the Eighth Edition:

• Explores the speech development process from start to finishusing the Stairway to Speech Success Model to help you get started on preparing your first presentation.
• Addresses "Communication Anxiety" when you need it most — as you are preparing to give your first presentation.

• Allows you to practice skills in small group settings or on your own with the Exploration and Application Exercises found at the end of each chapter.

 

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Praise for Public Speaking:

 

“This text is great; it can be used for first year speech courses and advanced as well. The figure charts, “Ethics Alert” boxes, Speaker’s Notes… all simply outperform other texts.” - Dave Berg, Weber State University

 

“This book is unique because of its writing style. I have been pleasantly surprised to find out how much I enjoy reading the chapters and even find myself more inspired to teach and practice public speaking better. I feel that the authors write out of a sense of conviction about this craft and incorporate authentic and relevant examples to illustrate the concepts principles and ethics.” - Dorothy Collins, Texas A&M University

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Customer Reviews

Public Speaking
I used the text book for a "public speaking" course at California State University Hayward campus.

The book does an excellent job of taking the reader through the steps in preparing public speeches. It contains numerous examples of speeches.

The main thing I felt that the author did was to teach the reader a the step by step process of picking a topic, preparing an outline and delivering the speech it self.

good luck to all potential public speakers!

Very colorful and contains many helpful sidebars
Finally, a text that deals with the fear of public speaking by dedicating a whole chapter to it. It doesn't come naturally, or at least easily for most people, unless of course, you're in the business. The Osborns give a whole chapter to the "First Speech." Although I feel this team was a little short on speech preparation techiniques as far as conducting interviews, what was offered was good enough to set up a solid base of testimonies for informative speeches. And although they did well in the in in-depth lesson outlining, the Osborns could've devoted more space to the Power Point presentation. This is increasingly necessary to win over audiences. A good Power Point presentation is the epitome of competent public speaking.
I feel there could have been more detail on the delineation of small groups and subgroups. However, this team had good anecdotes and very colorful interpretation of language usage.
I look forward to the 8th edition.

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