This guide to discourse analysis is designed to meet the needs of the communicator as business executive, influential community member or simple development agent. He is called upon to use the rules of oral and written expression in his daily life and professional career. But there's indispensable information that's hard to come by: how to prepare a presentation, how to produce coherent statements on a specific theme, how to argue about a topic on a poster, how to hold an impromptu speech in front of a large audience, how to take part in fruitful dialogue and televised debates, how to write administrative letters, memos, minutes, minutes of meetings and mission reports.