The Natural Speaker is a concise, student-friendly, practical guide to public speaking. It explores the basic skills necessary to present a speech to any audience in a way that is natural, effective, and rewarding. This text is designed to enhance and improve your students' natural speaking strengths by providing a basic knowledge of speech construction, practice, and delivery. The Natural Speaker features a warm, simple, and humorous writing style, while presenting the fundamental concepts and skills required in effective speaking.
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Key Benefit: The Natural Speaker offers a variety of practical communication skills and attitudes that will enhance effectiveness in communicating with others. Fujishin focuses on providing straightforward, concise methods for developing the skills needed to deliver a speech in a natural, effective and rewarding way for the speaker and his/her audience. Key Topics: Step-by-step discussion of putting together an effective speech, overcoming nervousness, public speaking throughout life, organizing and researching the speech, and persuading others. Market: Professionals in business and others who want to learn how to be more effective communicators.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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A "textbook" that is not a traditional textbook.,
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This review is from: The Natural Speaker (3rd Edition) (Paperback)
This book is my most favorite "textbook" since I returned to school to get my AA. This book is not like the traditional textbook-it doesn't put you to sleep after the first 3 pages. Each chapter starts off with a short story that applies to the concepts taught in the chapter. Very amusing stories. After the concept is introduced, the information is broken down into subtopics that are reasonably short. I think this helps the flow of the book. Models are included in the text so if your instructor wants an outline, for example, you have one in the text to refer to. The reading of this book is smooth and easy. I sold my original copy back to my school's bookstore and now I am regretting it. For someone who is working on an AA in speech communication, I'm looking to buy this book again to help me prepare future speeches.
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A Very Talented, Passionate, Communicator Shares His Secrets,
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This review is from: Natural Speaker, The (5th Edition) (MySpeechKit Series) (Paperback)
I've read a lot of communication textbooks over the years since I'm a professor in the field. This is one of the best. Professor Fujishin exudes the passion he talks about in the final two chapters of this book. He is passionate about the topic, the audience (in this case his readers), and he has a healthy self-esteem. All three are necessary for connecting with an audience in a meaningful way, he explains.The author stresses ethics throughout the whole book. It is filled with inspiring quotes. His points are illustrated by anecdotes and personal insights from himself and people he's known. I get the impression that he is truly a nice guy. That comes across in his writing. It's like I know him after reading his book. He touched me to that extend. Now, having said all those positive things, I do have a couple of ideas for improvement. First his citations are weak. In the text he identifies such well known poeple as Abraham Maslow and Alan Monroe, but in most places he talks about "a study." Curious readers want to know "which study." How about a bibliography at the end of each chapter? Another odd thing I found was the fact that he seems to be a Christian who is afraid to mention the Name of Jesus. Why do I get that impression? He cites names of leaders of all kinds of other religions. He even quotes the Bible and talks several times about preachers and church, but there's never a mention of the Name. Just an interesting observation I picked up on. Overall this is a great book. It emphasizes the importance of relationships. Communication is about being "other centered" and the author is a master at following the advice he's advocating.
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Good book,
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This review is from: Natural Speaker, The (7th Edition) (Paperback)
I ordered this book for a fundamental to public speaking course, this book is so interesting I reread it after the course.
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