Credits
Every lesson here is written by us. The thinking behind them is not ours alone, and this page says whose it is. Where a framework belongs to someone, we name them and link to their work rather than quietly absorbing it.
Written by us
Our own instruction, written for Communicado.
- Communicado original instruction
Used in Pick One Thing · Matching the Room
Public domain
Old enough to belong to everyone. We quote and build on these freely.
- Public Speaking — Clarence Stratton (1920)
Used in Read It Back · Breaking Your Default Pace · Trading Fillers for Space · The Face Behind the Voice
- The Art of Public Speaking — Dale Carnagey and J. Berg Esenwein (1915)
Carnegie before the name change. The classical treatment of voice, force, feeling, pause and gesture.
Used in Volume: The Lean-In Dial · If It Distracts, It's a Problem · Listen Blind · Pace: Speed Is a Choice · Pause: The Power of Silence · Pitch: Find Your Melody · Tone: How You Make Them Feel · Your Vocal Image · Support, Not Strain
- The Training of a Public Speaker — Grenville Kleiser
Used in Pitch Glides · It Is Not the Accent, It Is the Articulation
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
Openly licensed with share-alike terms, for noncommercial use only. Consulted, never reproduced.
- Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking — University of Minnesota Libraries
CC BY-NC-SA. Consulted for taxonomy only; no text reproduced.
Used in Watch It Muted
Cited frameworks
Someone else's framework. We name the author and link to their work; we never reproduce their words.
- The Competent Speaker Speech Evaluation Form — National Communication Association (1993)
The standard eight-competency instrument for assessing speech competence.
Used in Your Vocal Image
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