Free 2023 e-book on Public Speaking as Performance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is a free 148-page e-book from 2023 by Mechele Leon, Renee Cyr, and Jonah Greene titled Public Speaking as Performance: Practicing public speaking in the theatre & performance. It has four parts and sixteen chapters:

 

Prologue: Part I

Thinking about Public Speaking - Chapter 1

Actor Tools for Public Speaking - Chapter 2

 

Context: Part II

Speaking Occasion - Chapter 3

Audience Analysis - Chapter 4

Ways of Delivering Speeches - Chapter 5

From Page to Stage - Chapter 6

 

Speechwriting: Part III

Writing for Listeners - Chapter 7

Purpose and Thesis - Chapter 8

Structure and Organization - Chapter 9

Introductions and Conclusions - Chapter 10

Ethics in Public Speaking - Chapter 11

Language in Speechwriting - Chapter 12

Presentation Aids - Chapter 13

 

Purposes: Part IV

Informative Speeches – Chapter 14

Persuasive Speeches - Chapter 15

Special Occasion Speeches - Chapter 16

 

The authors all are in the Department of Theatre & Dance at the University of Kansas. Mechele Leon is a professor and the other two are graduate teaching assistants.

 

On December 22, 2020 I blogged about Be your very own Santa Claus by downloading free e-textbooks about public speaking and mentioned another 2019 e-book from the University of Kansas by Meggie Mapes titled Speak Out, Call In: Public speaking as Advocacy.

 

My cartoon of an actor was adapted from this one at Wikimedia Commons.