TY - BOOK AU - Osborn, Michael AU - Osborn, Suzanne TI - Public speaking / SN - 0395359554 AV - PN 4121 .O83 1988 PY - 1988/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin Company KW - PUBLIC SPEAKING N1 - Includes index; Part I. The Foundation of Public Speaking -- Part II. Preparation for Public Speaking -- Part III. Developing Presentation Skills -- Part IV. Informative Public Speaking -- Part V. Persuasive Public Speaking -- Part VI. Speeches for other Occasions N2 - Many years ago we stepped - totally unprepared room to teach our first public speaking classes. Talk about performance anxiety! Now we write this preface, convinced that the ancients were wise to place the study of public speaking at the center of the educational discipline ER -