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Modern
Public
Speaking: The Virtual Text by The Public Speaking
Project
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Stand
Up, Speak Out by Jason S. Wrench, Anne Goding,
Danette Ifert Johnson, and Bernardo A. Attias
Classic texts
Public
Speaking by James Albert Winans (1917)
Effective Public Speaking: The
Essentials of Extempore Speaking and of Gesture by Joseph Albert Mosher (1917)
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"If I could speak just a few words .
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http://www.publicspeakingproject.org/psvirtualtext.html
http://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/bookhub/reader/3795?cid=&e=wrench_1.0-ch01
https://archive.org/details/publicspeaking00winagoog
https://archive.org/details/effectivepublic01moshgoog