COM 211 - COM 211 & 311: Speech and Professional Presentations, L. Horrisberger

Important Associations

Institute for Public Relations
Independent nonprofit that bridges the academy and the profession, supporting PR research and mainstreaming this knowledge into practice through PR education.
International Association of Business Communicators
Identify, share and apply the world's most effective communication practices.
National Communication Association
NCA is the largest national organization dedicated to communication. Researchers, educators, and professionals, work to understand and better all forms of human communication.
Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)
Your Public Relations and Communications Community
Toastmasters International
Toastmasters International is a non-profit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of meeting locations.

Quick Tips

Need Help Giving a Speech?
This site offers practical tips to guide you through almost any event involving an audience, including business presentations and various special occasions. In addition, you’ll find advice on managing your stage fright and finding speech topics.
Prepare and Give a Speech
How to Prepare and Give a Speech. Have you just found out you need to give a speech? And you're feeling a little nervous about it?
How to Cut Out the Crutch Words
“…um…” “…you know…” “…like…” “…ah…”

You’ve all seen it before. What would otherwise be a great presentation becomes one interrupted jumble of syllables. Instead of taking those key pauses to let the audience digest, every moment of hesitation is filled with a crutch word. Maybe it happens to you.
12 Tips for Creating Better PowerPoint Presentations
Ever wonder how to create a good PowerPoint presentation? Creating professional, unique PowerPoint presentations with the latest version of Microsoft Office is much easier than you think. This article will help you find the tools to create exactly the presentation you want.

About This Guide

This guide supplements what you will learn in COM 211 and COM 311. It introduces you to resources that can help you deliver your message persuasively and effectively.

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Resources to Start With

31 ways speech, movement, and visual aids improve your presentation - Davidson, Jeff

Call Number: ebook

ISBN: 1607290774

Everyone appreciates listening to presenters who can effectively deliver their message. If you can converse effectively with your friends and family, then you can become an effective speaker as well. With this scintillating seven-eBook series, you can quickly learn how to become a better presenter -- starting right now.

7 steps to fearless speaking - Wilder, Lilyan

Call Number: PN4121 .W54

A blueprint for successful public speaking by the communications consultant who has advised Oprah Winfrey, Maria Shriver, and Charlie Rose, among others, offers her seven-step plan to better oral communication.

American Speeches - Library of America

Call Number: E183 .A498 2006

ISBN: 0131020250

PresentationZen design: simple design principles and techniques to enhance your presentations - Reynolds, Garr

Call Number: eBook

Also available in print: HF5718.22 .R49 2008

Ripples of hope : great American civil rights speeches - edited by Josh Gottheimer

Call Number: E184 .A1 R56 2003

The first collection of American civil rights speeches-including a never-before-published speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.-from the entire range of U.S. history.

Say it with presentations: how to design and deliver successful business presentations - Zelazny, Gene

Call Number: ebook

State of the union : presidential rhetoric from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush

Call Number: Reference: J81.4 .S73 2007

Publication Date: 2007

Presents one hundred State of the Union addresses in their entirety, covering 1913 to 2006, with introductory notes on the historical and political context of each speech and the reaction to it.

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