This text is a guide to preparing and making public speeches. It covers such topics as addressing cultural diversity; listening; speakers and pluralistic audiences; selecting your topic and purpose; researching your speech in the electronic age; and persuasive speaking. This edition addresses the ways in which culture and society shape the perception of appropriate public speaking and how public speaking affects the values, attitudes, and beliefs of people from a range of social and cultural backgrounds.

Product Description: Offering comprehensive coverage in a concise format, PUBLIC SPEAKING: CONCEPTS AND SKILLS FOR A DIVERSE SOCIETY, 8e is a culturally informed book that never loses sight of its fundamental purpose: training students to be effective public speakers and listeners in a world filled with monumental cultural, political, and technological changes...read more

Product Description: By Clella Jaffe. This workbook features extensive individual and group activities that support assignments suggested in the Annotated Instructor's Edition and the Instructor's Resource Manual. These activities are a great way to help students practice their public speaking skills and put the text's concepts to action...read more