1. The Natural Speaker
Fujishin, Randy – 192 Pages
The Natural Speaker is a concise, practical, inexpensive, student-friendly guide to public speaking that explores the basic skills necessary to present a natural, effective, and rewarding speech to any audience. By providing a basic knowledge of speech construction, practice, and delivery, this book is designed to enhance and improve students’ natural speaking strengths. Featuring a warm, simple, and humorous writing style, The Natural Speaker presents the fundamental concepts and skills required for effective speaking.
Link: https://www.amazon.com/Natural-Speaker-7th-Randy-Fujishin/dp/020575368X
2. Creative Oral Communication for Filipino Students: A Practical Application
Chavez, Joy D. – 352 Pages
This book intends to present a practical technique of developing the communication skills of students. It is also helpful to teachers handling speech and oral communication subjects as it offers a more comprehensive combination of topics relevant to the present and future communication needs of students.
It is divided into two parts: Part I- Communication: Principles and Practices which tackles the basics of communication as well as other essential factors that contribute to a successful communication process. Topics are carefully chosen with samples and useful unit exercises that serve as excellent opportunities for practice and further discussions in the class. Part II- Speaking in Public takes up the fundamentals of communication in public whether in a small gathering as in a meeting or in large group as in a conference. It does not only offer tips on how to become an effective speaker but also contains compiled exemplar speeches for students to refer to as models of their future tasks. The last part provides a very helpful collection of declamation and oratorical pieces and speeches from prominent personalities worldwide.
Furthermore, the discussions are extensive and aligned to appropriate situations that every individual will likely encounter in life whether as a student or as a future professional. The readers are exposed to activities that prepare them for the demands in communication for whatever possible communicative task is required of them.
This book then can best be utilized as a textbook for speech and oral communication and as a very significant resource book for the teacher handling the subject. It will benefit the teacher as it covers most, if not all topics in this area of learning. Lessons included here were considered from the syllabi of different colleges and universities all over the country hence a response to the need of its clientele. This was written with the teachers as well as the learners in mind.
It is therefore hoped that this piece of work shall contribute in developing communicatively competent speakers among our college students, equipped and confident to face any communicative task today and in their future endeavors as they deal with people in this multitasking and multicultural environments.
3. Judicial Process and Judicial Policymaking
Tarr, G. Alan – 384 Pages
Provides an excellent introduction to judicial politics as a method of analysis. Rather than limiting the text to coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court, G. Alan Tarr examines the judiciary as the third branch of government; asks you to form your own evaluations; and weaves four major premisis throughout: 1) Courts in the United States have always played an important role in governing and that their role has increased in recent decades; 2) Judicial policymaking is a distinctive activity; 3) Courts make policy in a variety of ways; and 4) Courts may be the objects of public policy, as well as creators.
New to this Edition:
- The most recent legal developments and scholarship are covered.
- A revised and expanded discussion of the American legal profession, particularly the reduced job opportunities for recent law school graduates
- A detailed discussion of recent state rulings on same-sex marriage, on popular reactions to those rulings, and on the federal courts’ involvement with the issue
- Consideration of how the recession in the United States has affected the funding of courts and its effects on the administration of justice
- The appointments of Justices Sotomayor and Kagan to the S Supreme Court