The Natural Speaker

By Matthew Benefit

Book Overview

The Natural Speaker is a concise, practical, inexpensive, student-friendly guide to public speaking that explores the basic skills necessary to present a natural, effective, and rewarding speech to any audience. By providing a basic knowledge of speech construction, practice, and delivery, this book is designed to enhance and improve students' natural speaking strengths. Featuring a warm, simple, and humorous writing style, The Natural Speaker presents the fundamental concepts and skills required for effective speaking. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0205946275
• ISBN13: 9780205946273
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Pearson Higher Education
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 6.0" x 0.5"

Customer Reviews

The Natural Speaker

I bought this book for a class. I have been very helpful in teaching me to be a better speaker.

Life changing textbook

Not only is this one of the best textbooks that I have ever had to read, but it is one of the best books. It completely changed my perspective on public speaking. I had the pleasure of taking public speaking with Randy Fujishin and he is a wonderful, enthusiastic teacher with a real passion for the subject. I believe that this shows in his book. It really is an easy read. I had family members asking if they could borrow...

This book helps tremendously

The examples given in this book helped me tremendously in giving a proper speech, it gave wonderful examples and steps to take in order to execute a successful presentation. I recommend this book for anyone who has troubles speaking or has fears of taking a course or speaking in public.

A Very Talented, Passionate, Communicator Shares His Secrets

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...

A "textbook" that is not a traditional textbook.

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...