Author: Iain Ewing, published by Ewing Communications, 1994. I keep this book in the bottom drawer of my buffet-turned-bookcase.
Why do I go back to this book regularly enough to keep it around? Ewing offers simple, clear advice on how to overcome one’s fear of public speaking. He provides a self-reflection tool to think about what kind of speaker you are (friendly, intellectual, dominant or submissive), and whether you match your audience or not (and if it’s a mismatch, what to do about it). He uses these four categories as his anchor points for each chapter, so you have to buy into the idea that we have different (and categorizable? categorical?) approaches to communicating.
Here’s a sample page from the chapter on your pitch and intonation:
excerpt from Controlling and Projecting Your Voice
Strengths of the book: helpful information, and excellent guidance to develop your presentation skills
Drawback: outdated in reference to technology, but nothing you can’t adapt to new options