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The Essential Elements of Public Speaking
Joseph A. DeVito · 2005
65/100
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DeVito's textbook is competent, comprehensive, and sustained adoption across American college programs speaks to genuine usefulness in the classroom. But this is a functional academic text, not a book anyone picks up for pleasure, and the multi-edition proliferation means you need to know which edition you actually have. For a college public speaking course it earns its place on the syllabus; as a general read it does not.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety98
substance72
craft55
originality50
accuracy78
hype45
age-fit60
human-eye52
Penny’s verdict65
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