Public Speaking for College and Career - Softcover

Gregory, Hamilton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072400536 ISBN 13: 9780072400533

Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill College, 2001

Synopsis

This public speaking text focuses on career and community applications. It offers advice for job-related speaking situations and how to control nervousness, and emphasizes ethnic and cultural diversity, ethics and new technology.

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SpeechMate is a new fully integrated student CD-ROM. CD icons in the margins of the text guide students to SpeechMate, which provides an array of tools to enhance student learning and help build confidence in public speaking. Found on the CD-ROM:

Student and Professional Speeches Videos. 45 minutes of videos of student and complete speeches illustrate the various parts of a speech and good presentation techniques.

Interactive Review. Helps students prepare for examinations and understand key concepts by providing 15-20 questions per chapter with comprehensive feedback.

Outlining Software. This unique tool guides students through the challenging process of creating a speech outline, providing helpful tips from start to finish.

Speech Critique Software. SpeechCritique enables students and instructors to provide speakers with detailed, structured feedback using an evaluation program that produces predefined, editable comments. SpeechCritique offers evaluation templates for several kinds of speeches.

Interactive PowerPoint Tutorial. The tutorial shows students how to use PowerPoint slides in their presentations.

Checklist for Preparing and Delivering a Speech. This handy list of steps not only helps speakers prepare their classroom speeches but also serves as a valuable guide for speeches in their careers.

Topic Helper. For students who have trouble coming up with a topic for a speech, these lists include hundreds of potential subjects.

Flashcards of Key Terms. Many students choose to review and study from the perspective of key terminology. The Flashcards application is an excellent printable or electronic study aid students will appreciate and use.

Extensive, Searchable Glossary. Defines key terms and concepts found in the text.

An Internet Primer. Helps students use and take effective advantage of the World Wide Web.

A Learning Styles Assessment. Helps students determine the learning approach that best suits them.

APA and MLA Bibliography. Provides Citation formats for books, articles, interviews, television programs, Internet sites, and more.
Significant revision of the chapters on persuasion (Chapters 16 and 17) reflecting updated research, featuring a new sample outline, a new speech with commentary (in chapter 16), and new examples.
Eight sample speeches with commentary, many of them new to this edition, appear in Chapters 8, 12, 15, 16, and 18.
Five additional sample speeches, four of them new to this edition, are included in the Appendix.
Chapter 9, 'Visual Aids,' has been updated to include new information on computer presentation aids. Students will appreciate a new table entitled 'Free Multimedia Material on the Internet.'
Chapter 6, 'Finding Information,' and Chapter 7, 'Using Information Wisely and Ethically,' include updated information on how to effectively use the Internet to do research and how to judge source credibility
Several new 'Tips for Your Career' boxes, including one entitled 'Beware the Perils of PowerPoint,' demonstrate the relevance of public speaking in the workplace.
New chapter-opening vignettes with accompanying photos draw students into each chapter and illustrate important public speaking principles.
Hamilton Gregory continues to incorporate coverage of technology, teamwork, and ethics in the context of speaking publicly in a richly diverse society.
Audience-centered communication continues to be emphasized throughout the book: how to analyze listeners; how to be sensitive to their needs and interests; and how to talk to and withthem, not at them.
Chapter 1, 'Introduction to Public Speaking' immediately helps students with the speech making process with informative sections, such as: 'Self-Introduction Speech' and 'Quick Guide to Public Speaking.'
An 'Ethical Issues'icon appears throughout the book in the margin next to passages that deal with issues of honesty and fairness.
'Tips for Your Career' appear in most chapters to give students useful advice for their professional development.
COMPING GUIDELINE: Sample to public speaking and occasionally introduction to communication

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About this edition

• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill College
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0072400536
• ISBN 13: 9780072400533
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6