Processing Public Speaking

Processing Public Speaking covers all the traditional topics and offers much more, including chapters on public speaking traditions, public speaking as communication process, processing the introductory speech, processing technology in public speaking, processing listening, oral interpretation, analyzing audiences, organizing and outlining speeches, persuasive speaking, and debating, processing verbal communication, processing nonverbal communication, and delivery, impromptu speaking and ethics. As an invaluable resource Processing Public Speaking allows readers to access practical information that describes the production and consumption of presentations in technical, humanities, and social science, business, and education courses. The approaches in this text include tailoring public messages by identifying what the audience wants and needs with adaptation to cultural differences with focus on the public speaking heritage of rhetorical discourse.