An Essential Guide to Public Speaking: Serving Your Audience with Faith, Skill, and Virtue, ISBN-13: 978-1540961884

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An Essential Guide to Public Speaking: Serving Your Audience with Faith, Skill, and Virtue, ISBN-13: 978-1540961884

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• Publisher: ‎ Baker Academic; 2nd edition (March 17, 2020)
• Language: ‎ English
• 256 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 1540961885
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1540961884

Communication expert and popular speaker Quentin Schultze offers a practical, accessible, and inspiring guide to public speaking, showing readers how to serve their audiences with faith, skill, and virtue. This thoroughly rewritten and expanded four-color edition has been tested and revised with input from Christian undergraduates and contains new chapters on timely topics, such as speaking for video, conducting group presentations, and engaging society civilly. A complete public speaking textbook for Christian universities, it includes helpful sidebars, tips, and appendixes.

Table of Contents:

Cover i

Endorsements ii

Half Title Page v

Title Page vii

Copyright Page viii

Expanded Table of Contents xi

List of Spotlight Topics xix

Foreword by Martin J. Medhurst xxii

Acknowledgments xxiv

Introduction 1

1. Speak to Serve 3

2. Plan Neighbor-Serving Speeches 11

3. Conquer Speaking Fears 21

4. Compose an Outline 31

5. Speak Extemporaneously 40

6. Anticipate Challenges and Opportunities 46

7. Think Biblically 55

8. Research the Topic and Audience 66

9. Find and Evaluate Online Sources 75

10. Be Trustworthy (Ethos 1) 85

11. Be Virtuous (Ethos 2) 93

12. Convey Ideas Passionately 103

13. Speak to Inform Dramatically 115

14. Tell Stories (Mythos) 124

15. Speak to Persuade Logically (Logos) 134

16. Speak to Persuade Emotionally (Pathos) 146

17. Share Special Moments 156

18. Advocate for All Neighbors by Amy King 167

19. Present in Groups by Heidi Petak 178

20. Stage with Technology 189

21. Speak through Video by Kathleen Sindorf 200

Afterword by Clifford G. Christians 209

Appendix A: Checklist for Preparing a Speech 213

Appendix B: Plan Speeches with the Holy Spirit 215

Appendix C: Form for Evaluating Speeches 218

Appendix D: Speaking from a Manuscript: Lessons from an Executive Speechwriter by Karl

Payton 220

Notes 225

Back Ad 230

Back Cover 231

Quentin Schultze (PhD, University of Illinois) is a speaker, mentor, consultant, and professor of communication emeritus at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His many books include Communicate like a True Leader, An Essential Guide to Interpersonal Communication, and An Essential Guide to Public Speaking. Schultze has been quoted in major media including the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, US News & World Report, the New York Times, Fortune, the Chicago Tribune, and USA Today. He has been interviewed by CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, and NPR.

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