Public Speaking
The Great Dictator (1940. Film. Charlie Chaplin)
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Answering and Asking Questions (Kansas State U)
Body Language (Lapham’s Quarterly)
Brit Lit Resource Kits: Text & Audio
The Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (CFSW) … If you feel nervous about standing up to do a presentation, go and check this out. You can observe how others do effective presentations, and be entertained.
Center for Gesture and Speech Research (McNeil Lab)
Charlie Chaplin Speaks (The Great Dictator)
Communications Toolkit (Michigan State U)
Figures of Speech (Grant Williams)
Gesture and Intonation (Dan Loehr)
Ibiblio: The Public’s Library and Digital Archive
I’m a Body Language Expert. Here’s What I Saw During the Conventions. (Joe Navarro)
International Phonetic Association
King George VI Addresses the Nation (BBC Archives)
LibriVox: Accousitcal Liberation of Books in the Public Domain
Lost Malcolm X Speech Heard Again 50 Years Later (NPR)
Manner of Speaking (House of Commons, Canada)
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speeches
Nonverbal Communication (Daniela Sime)
Persuasive Speech Outline Template: 3 – 5 minutes
Political Speeches (Wake Forest U)
Politics and the English Language (George Orwell)
Prepare for Public Speaking (Volunteering Australia)
Rogerian Method of Argumentation Outline
Structuring Information through Gesture and Intonation (Jannedy & Mendoza-Denton)
Tip Sheets (University Speaking Centre, UNC Greensborough)
Train the Trainer Manual: Presentation Tips
Unspeakable English: Cussing (BBC)
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Then read from the treasured volume
The poem of thy choice,
And lend to the rhyme of the poet
The beauty of thy voice.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The Odyssey (Homer) … And grey-eyed Athene sent them a favourable gale, a fresh West Wind, singing over the wine-dark sea.
And Telemachus called unto his company and bade them lay hands on the tackling, and they hearkened to his call. So they raised the mast of pine tree and set it in the hole of the cross plank, and made it fast with forestays, and hauled up the white sails with twisted ropes of oxhide. And the wind filled the belly of the sail, and the dark wave seethed loudly round the stem of the running ship, and she fleeted over the wave, accomplishing her path. Then they made all fast in the swift black ship, and set mixing bowls brimmed with wine, and poured drink offering to the deathless gods that are from everlasting, and in chief to the grey eyed daughter of Zeus. So all night long and through the dawn the ship cleft her way.
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