The Natural Speaker
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The Natural Speaker is a concise, practical, inexpensive, student-friendly guide to public speaking that explores the basic skills necessary to present a natural, effective, and rewarding speech to any audience.By providing a basic knowledge of speech construction, practice, and delivery, this book is designed to enhance and improve students' natural speaking strengths. Featuring a warm, simple, and humorous writing style, The Natural Speaker presents the fundamental concepts and skills required for effective speaking. Booknews Helps speakers enhance and improve their natural speaking strengths, and provides a basic knowledge of speech construction, practice, and delivery. Early chapters explore principles and skills of communication, and address selecting a topic, gathering material, and organizing any speech topic. Later chapters highlight physical components of speaker delivery, principles of sharing information with an audience, and career development. Material is presented in a thoughtful, interesting, and sometimes humorous manner. Fujishin is associated with West Valley College. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Preface1Communicating with Others: Your Most Important Skill12Giving Yourself Permission: Who Said You Could Talk?173Handling Your Stage Fright: Overcoming Fear254Speaking On Your Feet: Impromptu Speaking385Selecting Your Topic: Choosing Your Path476Researching Your Speech: What You Sow Is What You Reap607Organizing Your Speech: Keeping It Simple758Delivering Your Speech: Being Yourself939Informing Your Audience: Teaching Others11410Persuading Your Audience: Changing Others13311Becoming a Speaker: A Lifelong Journey151Index160
