Brent Oberg
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Forensics
$19.95Add to cartThe winner’s guide to speech contests by Brent C. Oberg.Forensics, more commonly know as speech and debate, is one of the most rewarding and beneficial educational activities available to students. This textbook is designed to introduce students to individual forensic events, giving suggestions and guidelines for their preparation. The text describes each event and the experience of competing. Students are shown how to select and perform winning materials, and how to achieve success. Chapters describe the structure and strategies of original oratory, extemporaneous speaking, humorous, dramatic, poetic, and duet interpretation, as will as prose interpretation, impromptu and expository-speaking required by many national forensics contests.
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Speechcraft
$19.95Add to cartAn introduction to public speaking by Brent C. Oberg. Many speech texts are either too theoretical or too bland for effective use in the typical classroom. This book provides students with enough theory and information to learn beginning speech, but emphasizes practical exercises and activities. Each unit supports one or two clear specific learning objectives with a number of different activities and assignments. The craft of public speaking is learned by doing it in a hands-on, workshop type of program. This text is the result of extensive research as well as practical experience. The techniques have been proven successful in the author’s own public speaking courses.
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Interpersonal Communication
$18.95Add to cartBy Brent C. Oberg. An introduction to human interaction. How we communicate with others is basic to our personal satisfaction, fulfillment, and success in life. Interpersonal communication is really the study of how we live every day. Unlike most theoretical communication texts that are impractical for the classroom, this book supplies an abundance of examples of how interpersonal communication affects our daily lives. Its relevance to self-knowledge, health, enjoyment, personal relationships, professional success and more are explained in this text. It begins with basic theory: levels of communication and the communication process with a graphic model demonstrated with examples, then moves into issues like communication apprehension. An excellent introductory communication textbook