The Art of Public Speaking

by Stephen E. Lucas

"Fully updated for the thirteenth edition, the award-winning Art of Public Speaking offers a time-tested approach that has made it the most widely used college textbook on its subject in the world. Providing clear, authoritative coverage and written in a voice that speaks personably to students, it helps them become capable, responsible speakers, listeners, and thinkers. Seamlessly coordinated with Connect, McGraw-Hill Education's pathbreaking online program, it supplies a proven set of teaching and learning tools that is without parallel among public speaking books"--

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Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
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What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?