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Hamilton Gregory


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Public Speaking for College and Career offers a practical, accessible, and non-intimidating approach to public speaking. Through numerous stories, examples, and techniques, this popular text shows students how to achieve clarity and confidence during the speeches they must give in college, in their careers, and in their communities. The new edition features Connect Public Speaking - a dynamic and powerful web-based learning management system with the student experience at its core. Informed by extensive research conducted with both instructors and students, Connect is designed to help students earn better grades and save instructors valuable time, whether teaching a face to face, online, or hybrid course.

Connect Public Speaking allows students and instructors to access all course materials including a complete media and research library, study aids and speech preparation and assessment tools from a single place, www.mcgrawhillconnect.com. Connect Plus offers all of this with the addition of an integrated, interactive eBook that immerses students in a flexible, interactive environment.

For more information go to www.mcgrawhillconnect.com.

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SpeechMate is a new fully integrated student CD-ROM. CD icons in the margins of the text guide students to SpeechMate, which provides an array of tools to enhance student learning and help build confidence in public speaking. Found on the CD-ROM:

Student and Professional Speeches Videos. 45 minutes of videos of student and complete speeches illustrate the various parts of a speech and good presentation techniques.

Interactive Review. Helps students prepare for examinations and understand key concepts by providing 15-20 questions per chapter with comprehensive feedback.

Outlining Software. This unique tool guides students through the challenging process of creating a speech outline, providing helpful tips from start to finish.

Speech Critique Software. SpeechCritique enables students and instructors to provide speakers with detailed, structured feedback using an evaluation program that produces predefined, editable comments. SpeechCritique offers evaluation templates for several kinds of speeches.

Interactive PowerPoint Tutorial. The tutorial shows students how to use PowerPoint slides in their presentations.

Checklist for Preparing and Delivering a Speech. This handy list of steps not only helps speakers prepare their classroom speeches but also serves as a valuable guide for speeches in their careers.

Topic Helper. For students who have trouble coming up with a topic for a speech, these lists include hundreds of potential subjects.

Flashcards of Key Terms. Many students choose to review and study from the perspective of key terminology. The Flashcards application is an excellent printable or electronic study aid students will appreciate and use.

Extensive, Searchable Glossary. Defines key terms and concepts found in the text.

An Internet Primer. Helps students use and take effective advantage of the World Wide Web.

A Learning Styles Assessment. Helps students determine the learning approach that best suits them.

APA and MLA Bibliography. Provides Citation formats for books, articles, interviews, television programs, Internet sites, and more.
Significant revision of the chapters on persuasion (Chapters 16 and 17) reflecting updated research, featuring a new sample outline, a new speech with commentary (in chapter 16), and new examples.
Eight sample speeches with commentary, many of them new to this edition, appear in Chapters 8, 12, 15, 16, and 18.
Five additional sample speeches, four of them new to this edition, are included in the Appendix.
Chapter 9, 'Visual Aids,' has been updated to include new information on computer presentation aids. Students will appreciate a new table entitled 'Free Multimedia Material on the Internet.'
Chapter 6, 'Finding Information,' and Chapter 7, 'Using Information Wisely and Ethically,' include updated information on how to effectively use the Internet to do research and how to judge source credibility
Several new 'Tips for Your Career' boxes, including one entitled 'Beware the Perils of PowerPoint,' demonstrate the relevance of public speaking in the workplace.
New chapter-opening vignettes with accompanying photos draw students into each chapter and illustrate important public speaking principles.
Hamilton Gregory continues to incorporate coverage of technology, teamwork, and ethics in the context of speaking publicly in a richly diverse society.
Audience-centered communication continues to be emphasized throughout the book: how to analyze listeners; how to be sensitive to their needs and interests; and how to talk to and withthem, not at them.
Chapter 1, 'Introduction to Public Speaking' immediately helps students with the speech making process with informative sections, such as: 'Self-Introduction Speech' and 'Quick Guide to Public Speaking.'
An 'Ethical Issues'icon appears throughout the book in the margin next to passages that deal with issues of honesty and fairness.
'Tips for Your Career' appear in most chapters to give students useful advice for their professional development.
COMPING GUIDELINE: Sample to public speaking and occasionally introduction to communication --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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FINALLY, Someone who can teach public speaking! 1 Feb 2002
By Darren L. York - Published on Amazon.com
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As a college instructor of oral communication for ten years, I complained bitterly about the poor selection of books for beginning students--until now. This is the single best book of its kind on the market, bar none. In all my years, I've never had students brag on a book like this one: easy to read, well-organized, thoughtful, practical, visually attractive, and substantive. My best compliment is that I can teach three times the material in half the time just by using this text--and people understand it! I can't brag enough on the author's work. This is phenomenal. ANYONE who wants to master the basics of public speaking should read this cover to cover. The principles and techniques Mr. Gregory describes are effective, powerful, and described in a simple way. BRAVO! I'll recommend this to everyone.
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Great Public Speaking Reference/Easy Read 22 Sep 2010
By Sandra Lloyd - Published on Amazon.com
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My title says it all...great textbook to keep and use as a public speaking/speech preparing reference tool. Although comprehensive in scope of material, the text was easy to read and understand.
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Speech 27 Feb 2006
By L. Hitchcock - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
I trully enjoyed this book, even though I am not a fan of text books. It has helped me develop stronger speaking skills, and I am not very good at public speaking. It's not a how to book, its simply a guide which offers tips and ideas on how you should present various topics.

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