Ruby Sisson Library

"Whether you are making a business presentation to a new client, speaking at a Little League banquet, or proposing a wedding toast, finding the right words with which to express yourself can be difficult. U.S. Senator Robert G. Torricelli has compiled a superlative anthology of more than two thousand quotations from nearly one thousand authors, selected to enhance your public speaking. Arranged under fifty categories and indexed by author, Quotations...

Author " offers practical strategies to help you find the right tone and style, control jitters and body language, and build rapport with any audience". -- back cover.

Most people avoid public communication because they feel inadequate. They fear failling. They don't want to look bad. And they don't want to let their audience down. The good news is that communication can be learned. John C. Maxwell has spoken more than thirteen thousand times to millions of people. He has taken everthing he's learned over a long and successful career and distilled it into sixteen laws of communication that anyone can learn...

Lectures by Dr. David Zarefsky, Professor of Argumentation and Debate and Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, cover the history of rhetoric and debate as well as analysis of different types of arguments in various situations.