Presentations in Everyday Life

by Isa N. Engleberg, John A. Daly

Presentations in Everyday Life responds to the expressed needs of those who face the challenge of making presentations that inform, persuade, entertain, and inspire audience members. Through hands-on materials and practical advice, Presentations in Everyday Life uniquely offers the seven key elements and guiding principles of presentation speaking that apply to any speaking context. Readers will learn immediately useful strategies and skills to make their presentations more successful and memorable.

552 pages, Paperback

First published December 28, 2000

Reviews

[Dan Venning · Rating 4 out of 5]

I taught using this book in my Public Speaking class at Wagner College. In fact, I much preferred this book to Stephen E. Lucas's The Art of Public Speaking, which I used in my Baruch College Public Speaking class. Engleberg and Daly do a great job of showing how public speaking skills are used throughout daily life, whether in interviews, discussions, classes, or even daily interactions. They provide concrete strategies for crafting speeches and building presentation skills. The examples they give are quite useful, and the text is presented in a very readable way.

On the downside, many of the illustrations are cartoonish or poorly designed, and at times the authors seem compelled to go into semiotics and structuralist analysis of language, which is certainly too advanced for an introductory public speaking class--which is what this textbook is clearly aimed at.

[Lucy Lopez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really good book , I can now speak better and with some conviction. Wish I could get over the nervousness that one experiences in public speaking.