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The Oxford Union Guide to Successful Public Speaking (Paperback)

by Dominic Hughes (Author), Benedict Phillips (Author)
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 237 pages
  • Publisher: Virgin Books (25 May 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0753504227
  • ISBN-13: 978-0753504222
  • Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 15.3 x 1.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 544,038 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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What is the one thing President Clinton excels at? Banish all thoughts of Monica Lewinsky, you cynics. According to Dr Dominic Hughes and Benedict Phillips, the authors of this public speaking guide, he gives a darned good speech. Clinton's prime time TV confession that he did have a relationship with Monica is reprinted in their great historical speeches section.

You might not be facing impeachment but, if you are nervous about taking part in a debate or thanking your in-laws for a great wedding bash, this guide has all the information you need to stop your knees from knocking. In their first two sections, "The Basics" and "Building a Successful Speech", Hughes and Phillips guide their reader through the dos and don'ts of presentation (key words--confidence and audience respect) and offer advice on theme, structure, content and language use.

In the second two sections, "Presenting a Successful Speech" and "Specialist Skills", they take you through the physical process of delivering your speech, including organising a venue, using slides and video clips, managing television appearances and business meetings, not to mention dealing with that universal panic-inducer, the wedding speech.

As two highly-successful former Oxford Union debaters themselves, Hughes and Phillips are full of useful insider information, such as starting from your audience's "argumentative baseline--the point at which the audience no longer question the assertions that lie behind your argument". Then you're ready to carry them with you--one example of the sort of advantage you should have if you've read this book. --Amanda Cameron



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This guide to public speaking comes from an acknowledged lead-forum for debate, offering advice on speeches of every kind and to speakers of all levels (best man to business person). The authors have won national debating championships and were finalists at the '98 World Debating Championship.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars "Very handy - and a good read too", 12 Nov 2001
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Finally - a public speaking book that really helps you to give a persuasive speech. Most of the other books I've read on the subject get obsessed with pompous formalities, or contain transparent boasts like "my friend the Archbishop of Canterbury", but this one is really different. The guys who wrote it clearly know how to teach as well as how to speak effectively. And they can write well too: their analysis of language in politics is really original and interesting, and some of their jokes had me laughing out loud. Not only is "The Oxford Union Guide" a very handy book, it's a good read too.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I thought I was pretty good already, 18 Jul 2000
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I have been a pretty competent public speaker for some time, in both my work (an international charity) and at private occasions. So I read this book more out of interest in their opinions than expecting to learn much. But the way the authors break down the various techniques has really helped me prepare properly for each separate occasion, leaving a lot less to chance. Reading their breakdown of the speeches they choose to analyse is both instructive and enjoyable. I'd like to see these two in action!
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The art of persuasion, persuasively told, 18 Nov 2002
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Planning this review ideas are flashing across my consciousness. Not insights from this book, though it provides many, but arguments and actions for a speech I am making shortly. Thankfully I'm filing them - building up a hoard of material, which should make writing the speech much less painful. It's one of many lessons learned from 'Successful Public Speaking'.

Hughes and Phillips start with you. As long as you have something worth saying and time to collect your material and think how best to frame and present it you are going to be OK. It is a reassuring message, particularly because they convey it in the first few pages and demonstrate it in less than a hundred.

Page after page of common sense eloquently supported by examples from a cast of great speechmakers and anecdotes from the authors, champion debaters themselves, this book practices what it preaches.

Like a good speech 'Successful Public Speaking' is exceptionally well organised, limited in its objectives, and persuasive. Following on from you, the speaker, Hughes and Phillips focus on the audience. Getting them to agree is the key, they say, not showing off. The greatest speakers appeal to the experiences of their audience who are participating, not listening: nodding in agreement, murmuring approval, clapping and cheering.

But I didn't buy this book to lead a revolution. Because Hughes and Phillips eschew formulas, techniques and stock-jokes and focus instead on helping the speaker communicate, their guidance belongs as much in the boardroom as it does in the classroom, party convention or pub. In the final third of the book the authors give specific advice for business meetings, television and weddings but the job is pretty much done by then.

This audience of one nodded in agreement all the way through 'Successful Public Speaking'. Holmes and Phillips have persuaded me I can make a good speech.

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