Rise Up: A New Guide to Public Speaking

Dean Tudor is a professor of journalism at Ryerson University and author
of Finding Answers: The Essential Guide to Gathering Information in
Canada.

The author has taught public speaking at a community college for 15
years. Her first four chapters cover the basics of speaking:
preparation, audience analysis, content of speech, rehearsing, notes,
and the like. The next five chapters deal with special-occasion
speeches, impromptu speeches, interviews, panel discussions,
presentations, and handling questions from the floor.

Good public speakers share ideas and convictions with an audience, and
try to connect rather than to impress. Barnard actively encourages women
to become speakers on the ground that there are too many bombastic male
speakers in circulation. Scattered throughout the text are interviews
with popular speakers like David Suzuki, Gloria Steinem, June Callwood,
Dave Nichol, and Edward Greenspan.