Lucas, Stephen E.

The art of public speaking / Stephen E. Lucas with Paul Stob. - Thirteenth edition, international student edition - xxiii, 389, A-1-I13 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Includes index.

Speaking in public --
Ethics and public speaking --
Listening --
Giving your first speech --
Selecting a topic and a purpose --
Analyzing the audience --
Gathering materials --
Supporting your ideas --
Organizing the body of the speech --
Beginning and ending the speech --
Outlining the speech --
Using language --
Delivery --
Using visual aids --
Speaking to inform --
Speaking to persuade --
Methods of persuasion --
Speaking on special occasions --
Presenting your speech online --
Speaking in small groups.

"Fully updated for the thirteenth edition, the award-winning Art of Public Speaking offers a time-tested approach that has made it the most widely used college textbook on its subject in the world. Providing clear, authoritative coverage and written in a voice that speaks personably to students, it helps them become capable, responsible speakers, listeners, and thinkers. Seamlessly coordinated with Connect, McGraw-Hill Education's pathbreaking online program, it supplies a proven set of teaching and learning tools that is without parallel among public speaking books"--

Junior High School English College of Arts and Sciences Bachelor of Arts in Communication College of Education Bachelor of Secondary Education major in English College of Education Graduate Studies Master of Arts in Education major in English


Text in English

9781260548099 (pbk)


Public speaking.

808.51 L96 2020