Chapter 14

Dealing with Presentation Disasters: While geared toward businesspeople making presentations, some of this page’s real world applications are interesting.

Delivery: This site provides a brief discussion of the five canons of rhetoric, focusing specifically on delivery. The historical perspective may be helpful for research.

Gifts of Speech—Women’s Speeches from Around the World: Sweet Briar College has compiled an amazing compendium of women’s speeches from around the world. Hundreds of speeches are here, from astronaut Shannon Lucid to rock star/actress Courtney Love.

The History Channel: This site has several audio versions of "speeches that changed the world." This is an interesting and informative site.

Pulling It Out of Thin Air: A brief, but helpful page that helps people deal with one of their worst fears about public speaking—blanking out.

Virtual Presentation Assistant: Supporting Your Points: The Communication Studies Department at the University of Kansas has put together an extremely helpful online speech-making tutorial. This section discusses how to support main points with facts, figures are provided, as well as links to statistical web sites. Highly recommended.