Brief Guide to Extemporaneous Public Speaking

With more than thirty-five years of combined experience teaching introductory courses in public speaking, the authors have noted a consistent weakness for speech students. Even those who do a masterful job of researching and developing a speech struggle with delivery. This guide helps students overcome that weakness and develop and deliver a speech using this preferred style.

Blake J. Neff is Visiting Professor of Communication at Indiana Wesleyan University and Pastor of the Van Buren United Methodist Church. He has preached and taught public speaking in a variety of settings for more than twenty-five years. He has authored Business Ethics: Sunday Ethics-Monday World (Triangle), Proclamation: A Christian Guide to Public Speaking (Wipf and Stock), and A Pastor's Guide to Interpersonal Communication (Haworth). Neff and his wife, Nancy, have three adult children, and eight grandchildren. The couple currently resides in Van Buren, Indiana.

Scott D. Turcott is Professor of Communication at Indiana Wesleyan University, where he has taught for almost 20 years. Turcott has taught communication and public speaking in a variety of settings for twenty-five years, and has made numerous conference presentations on various aspects of communication. Turcott and his wife, Rosalyn, have three sons. They currently reside in Marion, Indiana.