Students are up on their feet speaking from the first to the last chapter in this project-based text. Each chapter is structured around a speaking project that students prepare and present. Clear expectations, specific guidelines, and models throughout the chapter build students' confidence and ensure success.
FEATURES
- A beginning unit with the basics of building, delivering, and evaluating a speech
- Projects cover the most common types of public speaking experiences
- informative
- persuasive
- demonstration
- entertaining
- impromptu
- business
- special occasions
- contest
- mass media
- and more
- A streamlined lesson structure based on the Preparing, Organizing, Presenting, and Evaluating principle
- Talking Points that focus on special elements of public speaking such as stage fright, visual aids, listening skills, and persuasive techniques