Going from Stress to Success

Have you wondered how to help your students work through the stressful moments of presenting a speech so that they may truly understand success? Students often enter the public speaking classroom with much reluctance because, let’s face it, they have developed a fear of public speaking. Going from Stress to Success, written by Penny Joyner Waddell is a clear, informative, and practical approach for teaching students in the fundamentals of speech communications class. Whether your course is delivered face-to-face, web-enhanced, hybrid, or online, Going from Stress to Success will help your students to feel confident as they make presentations. In addition to basic public speaking content, students will also learn how to:

• Overcome the fear of public speaking
• Conduct an audience analysis
• Understand audience and speaker responsibilities
• Determine the purpose of the speech
• Construct an effective outline
• Create useful notes for the speech
• Create effective visual aids and handouts
• Conduct research to support the speech
• Cite sources in the outline and written drafts
• Verbally cite sources of research within the speech presentation
• Conduct interviews as a source of research
• Understand verbal and non-verbal communication skills
• Deliver the following types of speeches:
  • Introduction Speech
  • Informative Speech
  • Demonstration Speech
  • Persuasion Speech
  • Special Occasion Speech (Ceremonial, Work Related, and Social Event)
  • Group Presentations