Product Description
Balancing skills and theory, this text emphasizes orality, technology, and critical thinking as it encourages students to see public speaking as a way to build community in today's diverse world. Within a framework that emphasizes speaker responsibility, critical thinking and listening, and cultural awareness, this classic text uses examples from college, workplace, political, and social communication to make the study of public speaking relevant, contemporary, and exciting for students. The brief but comprehensive text also offers students the latest in using technology in speechmaking and features a unique and exciting integrated text and technology learning system.
From the Back Cover
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Get the most out of your textbook experience and visit the Companion Website to accompany Principles of Public Speaking, 15th Edition at www.ablongman.com/german15e.
Your final course grade will thank you! Student Supplements
- Companion Website with Online Practice Tests (www.ablongman.com/german15e)
- VideoWorkshop for Public Speaking Student Learning Guide with CD-ROM
- iSearch with Research Navigator for Speech Communication
- Public Speaking Tutor
- Allyn & Bacon Great Speeches DVD
- Preparing Visual Aids for Presentations, Third Edition
- Speech Preparation Workbook
- Public Speaking in the Multicultural Environment, Second Edition
- Outlining Workbook
- Allyn & Bacon Public Speaking Website (www.ablongman.com/pubspeak)
- Interactive Speechwriter Software, Version 1.1
- Speech Writer's Workshop CD-ROM, Version 2.0