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Zero-Cost, Public Speaking Textbooks
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The Public Speaking Project Virtual TextOpen textbook from the Public Speaking Project with eighteen chapters available for individual download. This text is used for the materials on this course hub.
Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking Textbook that “focuses on helping students become more seasoned and polished public speakers” with an “emphasis on ethics in communication.”
Exploring Public Speaking (Dalton State College) “In fifteen chapters the authors have attempted to address all the major concerns, issues, and material that an introductory, freshmen-level public speaking course involves. […] The book was written with students in the open access college and with diversity in mind.” Note that this […]
Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy This text “is a contemporary, interdisciplinary public speaking textbook that fuses rhetoric, critical/cultural studies, and performance to offer an up-to-date resource for students. With a focus on advocacy, this textbook invites students to consider public speaking as a political, purposeful form of […]
