Public Speaking category: 1264 books
Field Rhetoric
Ethnography, Ecology, and Engagement in the Places of Persuasion
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
**A survey of the innovative scholarship emerging at the intersections of rhetoric, **and fieldwork
A variety of research areas within rhetorical studies—including everyday and public rhetorics, space and place-based work, material and ecological approaches, environmental communication,...
Rhetoric and Communication Perspectives on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
Policy and Protocol Through Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This book brings rhetorical, legal, and professional communication perspectives to the discourse surrounding policy-making efforts within the United States around two types of violent crimes against women: domestic violence and sexual assault. The authors propose that such analysis adds to our understanding...
by Jody Lynn Nye, Bill Fawcett
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Attending your first convention as a professional writer? Don’t know what opportunities are out there for you? How do you get invited? How do you approach editors? How do you deal with fans who love your book and those who haven’t read it yet? Jody Lynn Nye and Bill Fawcett have answers to the...
by Blue Micro Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
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"I hope trainers. HR managers and others involved in the field of human capital development would take advantage and benefit from the book. l take this opportunity to congratulate the authors for this commentable effort." - Yang Berhormat Datuk Dr. S. Subramaniam, Minister...
Spreading the Word
Poetry and the Survival of Community in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 1995
In 1985 poet Ross Talarico began a grassroots program in creative expression in Rochester, New York. As the program came together, so did the community—young and old, poor and privileged, even those who could not read or write but wanted to tell their stories. This book is a testimony to the poetry...
Worlds Apart
Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Worlds Apart: Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts offers a unique examination of writing as it is applied and used in academic and workplace settings. Based on a 7-year multi-site comparative study of writing in different university courses and matched workplaces, this volume presents...
by Katrina M. Powell
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
In this book, Powell examines the ways that identities are constructed in displacement narratives based on cases of eminent domain, natural disaster, and civil unrest, attending specifically to the rhetorical strategies employed as barriers and boundaries intersect with individual lives. She provides...
by Grenville Kleiser
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
This incredibly useful book will appeal to writers, public speakers and anyone else who would like to improve their vocabulary. It contains a huge number of phrases which you can use in everyday speech and at special occasions, which will help you express your thoughts, ideas and feelings in a brand...
Publicity Push
How to Build and Sustain a Media Profile
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
The Publicity Push is designed for the publicity novice and for those who want to self-manage their media activities. The book guides the reader through the communication process, explains how to design effective publicity programs, analyses what makes a newsworthy story, demonstrates how to write...
Discourse, Gender and Shifting Identities in Japan
The Longitudinal Study of Kobe Women’s Ethnographic Interviews 1989-2019, Phase One
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
This book is the first in a unique series drawn from an interdisciplinary, longitudinal project entitled ‘Thirty Years of Talk.’ For 30 years, Okano recorded ethnographic interviews and collected data on the language of working class women in Kobe, Japan. This long-range study sketches the transitions...
The Cosmic Time of Empire
Modern Britain and World Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Combining original historical research with literary analysis, Adam Barrows takes a provocative look at the creation of world standard time in 1884 and rethinks the significance of this remarkable moment in modernism for both the processes of imperialism and for modern literature. As representatives...
Beyond the Pulpit
Women’s Rhetorical Roles in the Antebellum Religious Press
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2012
In the formative years of the Methodist Church in the United States, women played significant roles as proselytizers, organizers, lay ministers, and majority members. Although women’s participation helped the church to become the nation’s largest denomination by the mid-nineteenth century, their...
by Karen Schroeder Sorensen
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Carl Sagan’s Cosmos inspires audiences to look at the universe with new eyes and to appreciate humanity’s importance in it. Sagan’s deft use of rhetorical strategy creates an experience that pushes beyond the limits of a mere “educational” program to reveal a mythic adventure. Although Sagan...
The Political Effects of Entertainment Media
How Fictional Worlds Affect Real World Political Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Entertainment media are rife with material that touches on the political. The stories with which we entertain ourselves often show us, for better or worse, that everything can be solved by the rise of an individual hero, and that the “best way” to deal with a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with...