Public Speaking: Strategies for Success (6th Edition)
Why Do You Need this New Edition? At all stages of the public speaking process, you can learn how to develop and applystrategies to speaking situations you encounter throughout your life. In this new edition,Public Speaking: Strategies for Successmaintains its solid foundations of strategy,practical skills, rhetorical theory, diversity, ethics, and civic participation, while offeringfresh innovations that reflect the needs of today’s beginning speakers. 1. For earlier treatment of delivery and presentation, the chapter on delivering thespeech has been moved toward the beginning of the book (Chapter 3) to make iteasy to practice voice and body presentation early in the course, and correspondingchanges have been made in other chapters to support this move. 2. Chapters 7 and 15 have been substantially updated to reflect the information technologythat you know and use today. With the distinction between electronic andprinted materials becoming more blurred, each chapter offers a unified perspective,treating research sources and visual aids without regard to their medium. Specialattention is paid to evaluating the credibility of sources. 3.New! Rhetorical Workoutfeatures help you develop skills through focused,step-by-step applications of concepts and principles in each chapter. 4.New! Student Viewquotations from public speaking students around the countryappear throughout the book, so that you can learn from and be encouraged byyour peers. 5.New!A new Summary format and the addition of Key Terms lists offer more userfriendlyways of reviewing and reinforcing the concepts and theories in each chapter. 6. Increased attention on civic engagement gives more examples of–and strategiesfor–public speaking situations within your campus and community and shows howthese situations are part of the public forum. 7. Revised and updated examples help illustrate theoretical principles more clearly, reflectcurrent issues, and represent a diverse range of speaking topics and situations. 8. An updated photo program gives a variety of illustrated examples in which to seeothers–both professional and non-professional–offering public presentations.