Offers guidelines for the meaningful oral presentation of papers at professional meetings and conferences, suggesting that speakers adapt their papers for the occasion; speak extemporaneously; be flexible, different, and entertaining; speak at a rate of 140 to 150 words per minute; and provide visual aids and handouts. (DMM)

Suggests a way to determine the orientation (philosophic perspective) of beginning public speaking texts." (Author)

A case study of the rise and decline of a middle class debating society as a feature of adult- vocational education. (RA)

The author states that grades as a measure of performance for speeches given in class cause anxiety and a gap between student and teacher. The author suggests that a written critique from the teacher and fellow students is a preferable means of evaluation. The student's final grade is based on a final speech and an examination. (MS)

The purpose of this study was to discover differences if any between ratings of general effectiveness of speeches and scores on audience tests of retention of material. (Author/MS)

Describes the employment of surrogate speakers and examines their role in the 1980 presidential contest. Considers the advantages and disadvantages of their use and concludes that surrogates served the important needs of three groups--the candidates for whom they spoke, the audiences they addressed, and the surrogates themselves. (PD)

Offers guidelines for preparing and presenting papers at American Business Communication Association (ABCA) conferences. Topics covered include: (1) types of delivery, (2) extemporaneous speaking, and (3) manuscript speaking. (FL)

Discusses the importance of developing students' skills in delivering team presentations. Includes information on preparation, delivery, and closing. (JOW)

The essence of giving a good speech is to view it as a managerial problem/opportunity and apply the four management functions to resolve it. These four functions are (1) planning; (2) organizing; (3) motivating; and (4) controlling. (JOW)

Describes a three-session approach to coaching corporate executives to improve their presentation skills, focusing on their specific needs. (SR)

Compares the effects of imagery control and vividness, separately and in combination, on self-report measures of public speaking apprehension (PSA), state communication apprehension (CA), negative thinking, and behavioral disruption. Links imagery control and vividness to reductions in PSA, state CA, negative thinking, and behavioral disruption.…

Describes the successful public lectures of Frances Wright, and looks more closely at her career as a rhetorician trying to determine why she remains less known today than any other major female figure of the 19th century. Concludes that Wright was remembered with derision by her enemies and with regret by those who would have been her friends.…

A modified form of problem-based learning (PBL) with problems based on real workplace scenarios was trialled in a third year university class on Environmental Geology. Problems were developed in consultation with industry and based on their recent projects. These were then modified to allow for the shorter timeframe available, the less developed…

This article presents a public speaking assignment that takes the study of rhetoric seriously. First, it shifts the approach from the common typology of informative, persuasive, and ceremonial speeches toward forensic, deliberative, and epideictic rhetoric. Second, this assignment takes rhetoric seriously by generating the understanding that all…