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Beebe, S.A., & Beebe, S.J.. Public speaking: An audience-centered approach. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon (2003).

Boekeler, Erika. "Using Digital Video to Support Students' Practice of Oral Rhetoric." This webpage from Harvard's Instructional Computing group briefly addresses the benefits of recording and viewing student oral presentations. http://icg.harvard.edu/teaching/gallery/wp_boeckeler.html

Engleberg, Isa and Ann Raimes. Pocket Keys for Speakers. Houghton Mifflin, 2004. A brief handbook for communicating orally with a special section for multilingual writers

Listening Speaking Resources. Consult the Listening Speaking Resources through the Intensive English Institute for easy access to such valuable Websites as NPR, the PBS NewsHour, and Great Speeches from American History as well as to multimedia presentation resource sites include the Discovery Channel and CNN Interactive. http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/student_internet_res.html#listening

Lucas, S.E.. The art of public speaking, 7th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2001.

Makay, John. Public Speaking: Theory into Practice. 4th Edition. Kendall Hunt, 2000. A comprehensive guide and workbook filled with contemporary examples, engaging exercises, and related readings.

McCroskey, J.C. An Introduction to Rhetorical Communication, 4th ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982.

Oral Communication Focus. The University of Hawaii at Manoa offers teachers a rich compendium of presentation and communication resources for teachers, including a list of types of oral communication assignments, directions on how to start and complete these assignments, suggestions for peer review processes and assessment, and a print bibliography. http://www.hawaii.edu/gened/oc/oc.htm

Richmond, V.P., & McCroskey, J.C. Communication: Apprehension, avoidance, and effectiveness, 5th ed. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1998.

Schaller, K. Principles of effective public speaking: Student workbook. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2002. Zimmerman, Donald E., et al. "Assessing Visualizations in Public Science Presentations" STC Proceedings, 2003. In this paper, the authors address how adding animations into PowerPoint increases the effectiveness of a science-based presentation. http://www.stc.org/ConfProceed/2003/PDFs/STC50-035.pdf




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