Presentations in Everyday Life offers students taking the Intro to Public Speaking course a briefer, more practical approach, focusing on the real-life communication contexts in which students will find themselves. In addition to prompting the text's modular organization and hands-on approach, suggestions from practicing public speakers resulted in the inclusion of such unique material as logistics and mediated and online presentations. They also confirmed the authors' overriding goal: to provide practical advice, in an encouraging tone and accessible format, about creating powerful presentations.A strategic decision-making system based on seven principles of presentation speaking—purpose, audience, logistics, content, organization, credibility, and performance—helps students to develop and deliver effective presentations.Concise how-to advice covers issues such as building presentation confidence, choosing a purpose and topic, using introductions and conclusions to maximum effect, and catching and maintaining audience interest.

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