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How to start a book club at home

A book club needs four things: a handful of people, a book, a date and a host. Everything else, from snacks to rules, you can work out as you go.

Getting started

  1. Invite six to ten people. Fewer and one missed evening empties the room. More and quiet people stop talking.
  2. Pick a regular night. The same weekday each month is easier to remember than a new date each time.
  3. Choose shorter books at first. A novel under 350 pages gets finished. A long one gets skimmed.
  4. Take turns hosting and choosing. The host picks the next book, so the list never gets stuck in one genre.

Running the evening

Give the first half hour to food and catching up. Then sit down together and let the person who chose the book open with one question. Keep phones away during the talk, and end on time so people want to come back.

Questions that work for almost any book

  • Which character would you want as a neighbor, and which one would you avoid?
  • Where did the book surprise you?
  • What would you change about the ending?
  • Would you hand this book to a friend? Which friend?

Who opens the discussion?

Every book club evening reaches the same moment. The plates are cleared, the books come out, and someone has to ask the first question and talk to the whole room. In most clubs that job rotates, so sooner or later every member leads the discussion.

That turn is where many readers go quiet. The National Institute of Mental Health lists speaking in public and answering a question in class among the situations where people with social anxiety fear being judged (NIMH: Social Anxiety Disorder). It is common: NIMH estimates that 12.1% of U.S. adults experience social anxiety disorder at some point in their lives (NIMH statistics).

  • Write your opening question on a card. Reading one line is easier than inventing it on the spot.
  • Speak to one friendly face first, then let your eye contact move around the circle.
  • Pause after you ask. Silence gives people time to think; it is not a sign the question failed.
  • Practice out loud once on the drive over.

Leading a book club is public speaking at living room scale. Each habit gets its own section further down this page, where publicspeakingtips.io sets out its public speaking tips on notes, pace and handling nerves before you speak.

Source: NIMH: Social Anxiety Disorder · NIMH: Social anxiety disorder statistics

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Public Speaking Tips

Public speaking tips that work: practice out loud, know your audience, build three main points between a strong opening and close, slow your pace, pause instead of filler words, make eye contact and calm nerves with slow breathing.

  • Practice out loud
  • Start strong
  • Limit main points
  • Control your pace
  • Make eye contact
  • Use box breathing

Last reviewed · 17 tips · 29 sources

Public speaking tips at a glance
TipWhat to doHow longWhy it works
Practice & Preparation
1. Practice with Confidently
  • Practice out loud
  • Record and review
5 minutes a day, runs of 20 to 59 secondsDelivery only improves when you speak in real time
2. Practice with real people
  • Real listeners
  • Small steps
One session a weekGradual exposure shrinks the fear response
3. Know your audience
  • Five audience questions
  • Know your topic
Ten minutesA message aimed at someone feels relevant and personal
4. Time it, check the room
  • Time every run
  • Arrive early
Fifteen minutes on the dayRunning over and broken tech are the two avoidable disasters
Structure & Content
5. Start strong
  • Memorize your opening
  • No apologies
About twenty minutesThe first words decide whether people keep listening
6. Limit main points
  • Three points
  • Signpost each one
Ten minutes of planningListeners remember a few clear ideas, not a dozen
7. Use keyword notes
  • Key words only
  • No full script
Fifteen minutesReading a script kills eye contact and makes you sound flat
8. Stories and humor
  • Tell one story
  • Humor inside the story
Under a minute per storyStories and humor hold attention longer than facts alone
9. Use visual aids
  • One idea per slide
  • Test it early
Test the setup fifteen minutes beforeGood aids help people understand and remember
10. End with impact
  • Summarize
  • One clear ask
Ten minutesThe last thing people hear is what they repeat later
Delivery & Presence
11. Control your pace
  • Slow down
  • Pause, don't um
1 minuteFast speech is harder to follow and sounds nervous
12. Use your voice
  • Project to the back
  • Vary your tone
Two minute vocal warm-upA varied voice keeps attention; a flat one loses it
13. Make eye contact
  • 3 to 5 seconds each
  • Find friendly faces
3 to 5 seconds per personSteady eye contact makes you look credible and calm
14. Stand with purpose
  • Plant your feet
  • Open gestures
Practice it in every rehearsalOpen body language reads as confidence before you say a word
15. Engage and handle Q&A
  • Ask the room
  • Repeat each question
Fifteen minutes of prepPeople remember what they took part in
Managing Anxiety
16. Breathe slowly
  • Use box breathing
  • Limit caffeine
Start 10 to 15 minutes beforeSlow breaths counteract the adrenaline rush
17. Reframe nerves
  • Say "I am excited"
  • Keep going
Five secondsExcitement and anxiety feel the same in the body

Public speaking tips for practice and preparation

Tips 1 to 4: the work you do before anyone is listening.

01

Practice confident speaking with a tool like Confidently

How long
5 minutes a day, runs of 20 to 59 seconds
Backed by
Confidently, Stand Up, Speak Out

Practice out loud is the habit behind every other tip on this page. Reading your notes again trains memory, not delivery: your pace, your filler words and your face only change when you say the words in real time, standing up, the way the textbook Stand Up, Speak Out tells students to rehearse.

Practice confident speaking with a tool like Confidently, a phone app that listens while you talk. You answer a random prompt for a minute, run a full speech of up to 30 minutes or load a video you already have. It then shows whether you sped up, how many times you said um, how your face came across and where your voice trailed off, with a confidence score. Recordings stay private.

6in 10

Close to six in ten people who practiced at least six times with Confidently beat the score of their first recording.Source: Confidently

Keep each run short. Across 8,184 sessions scored by Confidently, clarity was highest in runs of 20 to 59 seconds and fell once a run passed a minute, so a 50 second answer repeated five times teaches more than one long rehearsal you never review. Confidence scores rose 6.6% by the sixth to tenth session, from 6.22 to 6.63 out of 10. Want the text to stick as well? See how to memorize a speech.

02

Practice speaking in front of real people on AmberWillo

How long
One session a week
Backed by
Stand Up, Speak Out, PubMed Central, AmberWillo

Real listeners are the second half of practice, because an empty room never makes your heart race. Gradual exposure, which psychologists call systematic desensitization, means facing a slightly bigger audience each time until it stops feeling like a threat. A review of psychological treatments for the fear of public speaking found a large effect, Hedges' g of 0.74, and exposure sits at the core of most of them.

Practice speaking in front of real people on AmberWillo. It runs small online video sessions with up to fifteen people, so you speak out loud to actual faces from home, and after each round you get a confidence score, coaching notes and a milestone. Starting costs nothing. A study in PubMed Central found that speaking to a supportive virtual audience lifted how confident people felt in real life afterwards. A local speaking club does the same job in person.

  1. Alone: say your opening into your phone and listen back.
  2. One person: a friend or partner, with one question for them: did anything lose you?
  3. A small group: three to fifteen people, online or in a club.
  4. The real room: the meeting, class or event itself.

New to all of this? Start with public speaking for beginners. Need a script for a toast or a job interview? These public speaking cards are sorted by situation.

03

Know your audience and your material

How long
Ten minutes
Backed by
OERTx, PubMed Central, Stand Up, Speak Out

Audience analysis is the step where you decide who the talk is for, and a paper in PubMed Central notes that knowing your audience makes the message more relevant and personal. Before you pick persuasive speech topics or open a blank page, answer the five questions below. Then talk with them, not at them: "we" and "you" build a bond from the first sentence.

Know your material one level deeper than the talk itself. If you can explain each point without notes and answer the obvious follow up question, nerves have less to grab onto. One more thing to keep in mind: in research cited by Stand Up, Speak Out, college graduates named oral communication the most useful skill they had in the business world, so it pays off across a whole career.

  • Situation: how many people, what room, what time of day, how long do you have?
  • Demographics: age, job, background and what they already know.
  • Psychology: what do they want, and what worries them about your subject?
  • Culture: shared values and words that land differently for this group.
  • Prior interest: did they choose to come, or were they told to be there?

04

Time your talk and check the room early

How long
Fifteen minutes on the day
Backed by
Stand Up, Speak Out, 100th Monkey

Timing is a word budget. At a comfortable 140 words per minute, a five minute talk holds about 700 words, so write to that number instead of cutting on the day. Time every full rehearsal: most new speakers talk faster than they think, and a talk that runs long gets rushed at the end, exactly where your strongest line should be.

Arrive about fifteen minutes early. Stand where you will speak, test the clicker, the slides and the microphone, and put a glass of water within reach, because a dry mouth is one of the first signs of nerves. With a handheld microphone, keep it about a hand's width from your mouth and point it at your chin, not your nose. Have a backup plan if the screen fails: your talk should still work without it.

How many words fit in your time slot (at 140 words per minute)
Time slotWords to writeMain points
1 minute (toast, introduction)About 1401
3 minutes (class talk, pitch)About 4202
5 minutes (team update)About 7003
10 minutes (presentation)About 1,4003
20 minutes (conference talk)About 2,8003, each with stories

Structure and content: how to build the talk

Tips 5 to 10: what you say and in which order.

05

Start strong with an attention-getter

How long
About twenty minutes
Backed by
Stand Up, Speak Out, The Rheumatologist

An attention-getter is the first device in your introduction, and Stand Up, Speak Out says it should be short: the whole introduction takes only 10 to 15% of the talk. Rule number one in Rosenbaum's five rules for public speaking is that the first words out of your mouth are the most important ones. Skip "Today I am going to talk about" and never open with an apology for being nervous; nobody knew until you told them.

Memorize the first 30 seconds word for word. That is the part where adrenaline peaks, and a line you know cold carries you through it. Pick one opener from the table, then say who you are and what the audience will get out of the next few minutes.

Five ways to open a talk
OpenerWhat it sounds likeWorks best for
Startling statement"Close to 77% of us fear this more than almost anything."Persuasive talks
Question"Who here has ever lost their words mid sentence?"Small rooms you can see
Short storyThree or four sentences about one momentAny talk
QuotationOne line, said by someone the audience respectsFormal events
HumorA light observation about the room or the dayRelaxed audiences

06

Limit your main points with the 3:2:1 rule

How long
Ten minutes of planning
Backed by
Stand Up, Speak Out

Structure is introduction, body and conclusion, and the body is where talks fall apart. Limit your main points with the 3:2:1 rule: the three things you want people to remember, two concrete examples for the points that need them, and one message to leave them with. That shape cuts rambling and keeps even an impromptu speech clear when you get only a minute to think.

Signpost every step out loud, because listeners cannot scroll back. Transitions such as "The second reason is" or "So what does this mean for you?" tell people where they are. Repeat the key message once in the middle and once at the end: on paper repetition looks lazy, out loud it is how a point sticks.

  • Introduction: attention-getter, who you are, what they will get.
  • Body: three main points, each with an example, a number or a story.
  • Conclusion: a one line summary, a call to action and a memorized last sentence.

07

Speak from keyword notes, not a script

How long
Fifteen minutes
Backed by
Stand Up, Speak Out, AmberWillo

Notecards with key words and phrases, not full sentences, are the safety net Stand Up, Speak Out recommends, because they stop you from reading to your audience. A full script pulls your eyes down and your voice into a reading tone; an outline lets you speak in your own words and still find your place.

Going blank is the most common thing that goes wrong: 38% of the 1,851 people who told AmberWillo about their speaking problems said their mind goes blank, rising to 46% in job interviews. Keyword cards are the fix. If you lose the thread, pause, look at the next word, and carry on. Only your first and last lines need to be learned by heart.

08

Use stories and humor so people remember you

How long
Under a minute per story
Backed by
Stand Up, Speak Out

Storytelling turns a point into a picture. Stand Up, Speak Out lists the anecdote, a brief account of an interesting or funny event, among the strongest attention-getters, and the same tool works inside the body of the talk. Keep a story to three or four sentences: where you were, what went wrong, what changed.

Let humor come out of the story instead of bolting on a joke. A light moment that fits your topic relaxes the room and you with it, and if it falls flat, a story still carries the point. Be authentic: your own words and your own kind of humor beat borrowed lines, because people can tell when someone performs a personality that isn't theirs. A rhetorical question does a similar job without the risk: "Have you ever had that moment?" gets heads nodding.

09

Use visual aids that support you

How long
Test the setup fifteen minutes before
Backed by
Stand Up, Speak Out

Visual aids improve understanding, help memory, add variety and make you more credible, Stand Up, Speak Out explains, but only when they support the speech and not the other way around. If you could read the slide to the room, it holds too much text.

  • One idea per slide, with as few words as you can manage.
  • Text and charts legible from the back of the room.
  • Face the audience, not the screen, while you talk.
  • Practice with the clicker and the laptop you will use.
  • Bring a backup on a second device or a printout.

10

End with impact and a call to action

How long
Ten minutes
Backed by
Stand Up, Speak Out

A conclusion is the part people repeat on the way out, so end with impact instead of "So, yeah, that's it." Summarize your three points in one sentence, give a call to action, the one thing you want them to do or think next, and close on a line you learned by heart.

Pause before the last sentence and hold eye contact after it. Then say "thank you" and stop talking. If questions follow, keep your best line for the very end: answer the questions, then repeat your one message so the talk still finishes on it.

Public speaking tips for delivery and presence

Tips 11 to 15: voice, eyes, body and the room.

11

Control your pace and pause on purpose

How long
1 minute
Backed by
100th Monkey, Confidently, Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Pace is the delivery habit most tied to sounding confident. In Confidently's scored sessions, average confidence rose from 5.52 to 6.68 as speakers' pace settled. 100th Monkey puts the comfortable band at 120 to 170 words per minute; nerves push most people above it, and comprehension drops once you pass about 180.

Pause instead of filling silence with um, uh or like. A pause before a key point tells the room it matters, and a pause after a question gives people time to think. To break the filler habit, record a minute, count every um, then repeat the minute and swap each one for a breath.

169

words per minute is the average pace of popular recorded talks, against 145 in university lectures.Source: Wingrove, Journal of English for Academic Purposes (2017)

12

Use your voice: volume, pitch and variety

How long
Two minute vocal warm-up
Backed by
Stand Up, Speak Out, Lemonade Day

Vocal variety means changing volume, pitch and rate on purpose, and Stand Up, Speak Out names all three as the controls of a good delivery. Project louder than a conversation so the back row hears you without effort, and lift or drop your pitch on the words that carry meaning so you never sound monotone.

A handy checklist is the five P's of the voice: pitch, pace, pause, projection and passion. Articulate the ends of words, and warm up before you speak, the same way a singer would. To hear what good variety sounds like, watch great speakers you admire twice: once for the words, once with the sound off for the body language.

  • Hum for thirty seconds to wake up the voice.
  • Say two tongue twisters slowly, then at speaking pace.
  • Read your opening line at three volumes: quiet, normal, back row.

13

Make eye contact

How long
3 to 5 seconds per person
Backed by
AmberWillo, Michigan State University Extension

Eye contact is a conversation with one listener at a time. Look at one person for 3 to 5 seconds, long enough to finish a thought, then move to someone in another part of the room. Start with two or three friendly faces, then widen the circle.

Michigan State University Extension gives a 50/70 rule: hold eye contact about 50% of the time while you speak and 70% while you listen. On a video call, look at the camera lens when you make a key point, not at the faces on your screen.

50/70

eye-contact rule: hold eye contact about 50% of the time while you speak and 70% while you listen.Source: Michigan State University Extension

14

Stand with purpose: posture, gestures and movement

How long
Practice it in every rehearsal
Backed by
Stand Up, Speak Out, AmberWillo

Body language is the message people get before your first word. Stand up straight with your feet planted about hip width apart and your shoulders back. Keep your hands visible, out of your pockets, and use open gestures to stress key words instead of fidgeting with a pen or the clicker.

Move with purpose. Stand Up, Speak Out suggests taking a few steps at a transition, which marks a new point for the audience; pacing back and forth without a reason just signals nerves. Smile when you walk up and when you finish. It relaxes your face and tells the room you are glad to be there.

15

Engage the audience and handle questions

How long
Fifteen minutes of prep
Backed by
Stand Up, Speak Out, PubMed Central

Audience engagement starts with remembering that the audience is on your side: they want you to do well, because a good talk is a better use of their time. Ask a show of hands early, refer to someone's comment, or give people ten seconds to think about a question before you answer it.

Plan the Q&A like a fourth main point. Guess the three likeliest questions and practice short answers. When someone asks, repeat the question so everyone hears it, answer in two or three sentences and check: "Does that answer it?" If you don't know, say so and offer to follow up. Then ask your listeners for feedback afterwards; research in PubMed Central links asking for feedback with a specific goal to better performance.

  • Repeat or rephrase the question before you answer.
  • Answer to the whole room, not only the person who asked.
  • Keep one answer to under a minute.
  • Let off-topic questions go politely and offer to talk afterwards.

Managing anxiety before and during the talk

Tips 16 and 17: what to do with the nerves.

16

Breathe to calm your nerves

How long
Start 10 to 15 minutes before
Backed by
Stand Up, Speak Out, ADAA, American School Counselor Association

Nerves are normal. Stand Up, Speak Out calls the fear communication apprehension and lists the symptoms most speakers know: shaking hands, sweating, a dry mouth, a pounding heart and a quivering voice. Even experienced speakers feel it. Close to 77% of people fear public speaking, and 15 to 30% have public speaking anxiety strong enough that the DSM-5 files it under social anxiety. The fear of public speaking also has a name: glossophobia.

Slow breathing is the fastest tool you have, because deep breaths counteract the effects of excess adrenaline. Start 10 to 15 minutes before you go on. The anxiety association ADAA also advises cutting back on caffeine on the day and getting a good night's sleep.

Three breathing techniques compared
TechniqueHow to do itBest moment
Box breathingIn for 4 counts, hold 4, out 4, hold 4Waiting backstage
4-7-8 breathingIn through the nose for 4 seconds, hold 7, out through the mouth for 8The night before or the morning of
Diaphragmatic breathingOne hand on your belly, breathe so the hand rises, not your shouldersDuring the talk, between points

17

Reframe nerves and keep going after a slip

How long
Five seconds
Backed by
Brooks (2014), Savitsky and Gilovich (2003), Stand Up, Speak Out

Reframing nerves as excitement works better than trying to calm down. In Brooks' 2014 studies, which included public speaking, people who said "I am excited" out loud felt more excited and performed better than people who told themselves to relax. Your racing heart is the same; only the label changes.

The audience sees far less than you feel. Stand Up, Speak Out notes that audiences do not perceive the level of nervousness speakers report, and Savitsky and Gilovich called this the illusion of transparency: speakers who learned about it gave better talks and felt calmer. So if you make a mistake, don't stop to correct it; keep going, and most people will never notice. Visualize it going well the night before, the way the ADAA suggests, and be as kind to yourself afterwards as you would be to a friend.

Audiences do not perceive the level of nervousness that speakers report feeling.

Stand Up, Speak Out

Public speaking tips by situation

The same skills, weighted differently for the moment you are in.

Which tip matters most where
SituationWhat changesLean on
Job interviewShort answers under pressure; going blank peaks here (46%)Tips 6 and 7: the 3:2:1 rule and keyword notes
Work meetingYou speak in turns, often without slidesTip 6: one point, one example, one ask
Class presentationA fixed time limit and a gradeTip 4: write to the word budget
Video callA camera instead of faces, lag and muteTip 13: look at the lens on key points
Wedding toastOne minute, an emotional room, a microphoneTips 5 and 8: one story, a memorized close
Pitch or sales talkA decision at the endTip 10: a clear call to action
Conference talkA big room and a long slotTips 9 and 12: legible slides, projection

Common public speaking mistakes and the fix

Each one is easy to spot in a recording.

Mistakes to avoid
MistakeThe fix
Apologizing for being nervous at the startOpen with your memorized attention-getter (tip 5)
Reading the slides out loudOne idea per slide, talk from keyword notes (tips 7 and 9)
Speaking too fastCount your words per minute and pause between points (tip 11)
Filling every gap with umSwap each filler word for a breath (tip 11)
Staring at notes or the screenHold one face for 3 to 5 seconds at a time (tip 13)
Running over timeWrite to the word budget and time every run (tip 4)
Ending with "So, that's it"Summary, call to action, memorized last line (tip 10)
Practicing only in your headSay it out loud, record it, watch it back (tip 1)

A seven-day practice plan

A printable checklist that turns these public speaking tips into a week of practice before a talk.

  1. Day 1: answer the five audience questions and write your three main points.
  2. Day 2: draft the talk to your word budget and write your opening and closing lines.
  3. Day 3: say it out loud twice, timed, and cut anything that runs over.
  4. Day 4: record one run, watch it back and fix one thing: pace, filler words or eye contact.
  5. Day 5: give the talk to one person or a small online group and ask what lost them.
  6. Day 6: rehearse with your slides and notes, standing, at full volume.
  7. Day 7: light run of the opening and close only, then sleep. On the day: arrive early, breathe, say "I am excited".

The numbers that matter

Four numbers that change how you prepare your next talk

77%

of people fear public speakingPubMed Central (NIH)

38%

of 1,851 people say their mind goes blank when they speak, the most common problemAmberWillo

+6.6%

higher confidence by sessions 6 to 10, across 8,184 practice sessions scored by ConfidentlyConfidently

120 to 170

words per minute: the pace band that is easiest to follow100th Monkey

Reader questions

Short, casual answers to what people ask us most.

What are the 5 tips for public speaking?

If you only take five public speaking tips from this page: practice out loud, limit your main points to three, slow down, swap filler words for pauses and make eye contact. Those cover most of what goes wrong in a first talk.

Not sure which to start with? Record one minute of yourself talking and watch it back. Your weakest one is usually obvious within seconds.

How do I master public speaking?

Honestly, by doing a lot of short reps rather than a few big talks. Say something out loud every day for a few minutes, watch it back now and then, and move up to real listeners step by step: one friend, a small group, then the real room.

Most people see a clear change within about ten practice sessions. Mastery is mostly that loop repeated for months.

How do I connect with my audience?

Talk to one person at a time. Find out who they are before you write (tip 3), say "you" and "we" more than "I", tell one story per point and hold eye contact for a full thought before moving on.

Asking the room a simple question in the first minute helps too. Once people have answered something, they feel part of it.

What are the 7 C's of public speaking?

The list most courses use comes from the 7 C's of communication: clear, concise, concrete, correct, coherent, complete and courteous. In practice that means one idea per sentence, no jargon, real examples and a talk that respects people's time.

You will also see a 5 C's version for speakers: comfortable, caring, confident, credible and charismatic. Either works as a checklist when you read your draft back.

What are the 5 P's of public speaking?

Two lists go by that name. For preparing a talk: purpose, passion, preparation, practice and performance. For your voice: pitch, pace, pause, projection and passion.

The voice version is the more useful one to check in a recording.

How long does it take to become a confident speaker?

Less than most people expect. In Confidently's data, confidence scores rose 6.6% by the sixth to tenth session, and close to six in ten people who kept going for six tries ended up above their very first recording. A review of treatments for speaking anxiety found a large effect, Hedges' g of 0.74.

So think weeks of short daily practice, not years. The fear rarely goes to zero, but it stops running the show.

Can introverts be good public speakers?

Yes, and often very good ones. Introverts tend to prepare more, listen better and talk less filler. Speaking drains them more than it drains extroverts, that's all.

Plan some quiet time before and after the talk, lean on structure and keyword notes, and keep the Q&A short if you get to choose.

How do I stop shaking when I present?

Give the adrenaline somewhere to go. Do box breathing for two minutes backstage, plant your feet, and hold something steady like the lectern instead of loose paper that shows every tremble.

And remember the illusion of transparency: the audience sees far less shaking than you feel.

What if I forget what to say?

Pause, breathe and look at your next keyword card. A three second pause feels endless to you and normal to the room. If you are completely lost, summarize what you just said; that usually brings the next point back.

It happens to more than a third of people at some point, so you are in good company.

Sources

The figures in this guide come from these studies and publications.

  1. Public speaking anxiety: prevalence (PMC3647380)pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  2. Public speaking anxiety and the DSM-5 (PMC4763377)pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  3. Meta-analysis of psychological interventions for fear of public speaking (PMC6428748)pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  4. Practice in front of a virtual audience and real-life confidence (PMC10460391)pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  5. Knowing your audience makes the message more relevant (PMC6505544)pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  6. Feedback seeking and performance (PMC9355701)pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  7. Get excited: reappraising pre-performance anxiety as excitement (Brooks, 2014), PMID 24364682pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  8. The illusion of transparency and the alleviation of speech anxiety (Savitsky and Gilovich, 2003)doi.org
  9. Speech rate in recorded talks and university lectures (Wingrove, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2017)doi.org
  10. ADAA: Conquering Stage Frightadaa.org
  11. American School Counselor Association: Coping with Student Anxiety (4-7-8)schoolcounselor.org
  12. OERTx (Texas Higher Education): Audience Analysisoertx.highered.texas.gov
  13. 100th Monkey: Words per minute, how to speak slower100monkey.co.uk
  14. Michigan State University Extension: Eye contact, don't make these mistakescanr.msu.edu
  15. The Rheumatologist: Rosenbaum's 5 Rules for Public Speakingthe-rheumatologist.org
  16. Lemonade Day: Public Speaking for Kids (the vocal 5 P's)lemonadeday.org
  17. Stand Up, Speak Out: Why Is Public Speaking Important?saylordotorg.github.io
  18. Stand Up, Speak Out: What Is Communication Apprehension?saylordotorg.github.io
  19. Stand Up, Speak Out: Reducing Communication Apprehensionsaylordotorg.github.io
  20. Stand Up, Speak Out: Why Conduct an Audience Analysis?saylordotorg.github.io
  21. Stand Up, Speak Out: The Attention-Gettersaylordotorg.github.io
  22. Stand Up, Speak Out: Using Notes Effectivelysaylordotorg.github.io
  23. Stand Up, Speak Out: Practicing for Successful Speech Deliverysaylordotorg.github.io
  24. Stand Up, Speak Out: Functions of Presentation Aidssaylordotorg.github.io
  25. Stand Up, Speak Out: Tips for Preparing Presentation Aidssaylordotorg.github.io
  26. AmberWillo: online public speaking practice in small groups (1,851 people)amberwillo.com
  27. AmberWillo: How to Use Eye Contact Effectively in Public Speakingamberwillo.com
  28. AmberWillo: Breathing Exercises Before Public Speakingamberwillo.com
  29. Confidently practice data (8,184 scored sessions)amberwillo.com

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