{"product_id":"an-essential-guide-to-public-speaking-serving-your-audience-with-faith-skill-and-virtue-paperback","title":"An Essential Guide to Public Speaking: Serving Your Audience with Faith, Skill, and Virtue - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eQuentin J. Schultze\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMartin Medhurst\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eClifford Christians\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommunication expert and popular speaker Quentin Schultze offers a practical, accessible, and inspiring guide to public speaking, showing readers how to serve their audiences with faith, skill, and virtue. This thoroughly rewritten and expanded four-color edition has been tested and revised with input from Christian undergraduates and contains new chapters on timely topics, such as speaking for video, conducting group presentations, and engaging society civilly. A complete public speaking textbook for Christian universities, it includes helpful sidebars, tips, and appendixes. Additional resources for students and professors are available through Textbook eSources.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommunications expert Quentin Schultze offers a practical, accessible, and inspiring guide to public speaking. This thoroughly rewritten and expanded edition has been revised based on input from students and colleagues.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAn Essential Guide to Public Speaking\u003c\/i\u003e is in a class of its own. It gets to the heart of the subject quickly, emphasizing skills and virtues for serving neighbors, coworkers, and the world. Schultze frames the ability to speak as a gift, giving readers the rich purpose and motivation to speak with wisdom, clarity, and delight. This book is a gem.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eStephanie Bennett\u003c\/b\u003e, Palm Beach Atlantic University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Borrowing from Augustine, Quentin eloquently reminds us that neighbor love entails speaking for others. He draws together all the key parts of public speaking--researching, outlining, cultivating ethos, using stories, being compassionate--in a fresh and distinctly Christian way. What a gift to Christian communicators!\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eTim Muehlhoff\u003c\/b\u003e, Biola University; author of \u003ci\u003eWinsome Persuasion: Christian Influence in a Post-Christian World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I cannot imagine that a communication department at a Christian school would not eagerly adopt this book. It's an ideal fit.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eEm Griffin\u003c\/b\u003e, Wheaton College (emeritus)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I loved the first edition. This stunning new edition surpasses everything else available. It is perfect for educators, students, career coaches, business leaders, pastors, and beyond. It includes everything for writing and delivering speeches that truly serve audiences, with a solid and even inspiring Christian perspective.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eDaniel D. Fultz\u003c\/b\u003e, Charleston Southern University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Schultze has done it again! By expanding his classic work \u003ci\u003eAn Essential Guide to Public\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSpeaking\u003c\/i\u003e, he offers a fresh and practical handbook for creating compelling public presentations from a Christian perspective. With accessible language, helpful sidebars, and wonderful discussion questions, this book is even better than the first edition.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eElizabeth W. McLaughlin\u003c\/b\u003e, Bethel University, Indiana\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I love this book. It fills a real need by addressing both the basic skills for and the faith-focused call to servant speaking. It's a gift to receive so much expertise and wisdom in one book. Brilliant.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eDorie Shelby\u003c\/b\u003e, Spring Arbor University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuentin J. Schultze\u003c\/b\u003e (PhD, University of Illinois) is a speaker, mentor, consultant, and professor of communication emeritus at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His many books include \u003ci\u003eCommunicate Like a True Leader\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAn Essential Guide to Interpersonal Communication\u003c\/i\u003e. Visit his website at www.quentinschultze.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 17, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771696087328,"sku":"9781540961884","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e3e0b4b4739b5900b0d0fda1d74fc3e8.webp?v=1780391176","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/an-essential-guide-to-public-speaking-serving-your-audience-with-faith-skill-and-virtue-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}