Grounded in rhetorical tradition while offering a fresh perspective,
INVITATION TO PUBLIC SPEAKING, International Edition helps students understand the power
and importance of public speaking--in their lives and in greater society.
Intended for the introductory public speaking course, INVITATION TO PUBLIC
SPEAKING, International Edition engages students in the public dialogue, encourages civic
engagement, and illustrates how they will apply speaking skills in their course work and
throughout their careers.
Speech-building exercises, thoughtful real-life examples, an invigorating art
program, and an engaging voice help students comprehend public speaking as an activity to
be engaged in with others, and prepares them to enter the public dialogue.
INVITATION TO PUBLIC SPEAKING also features the most comprehensive integrated
technology program available, giving students more interactive skill-building practice for
public speaking.
Features
- With a solid, pragmatic, skills-based foundation in public speaking, the text strongly
emphasizes civil, audience-centered discourse and features the most comprehensive
integrated technology program available.
- Chapter 2,"Entering the Public Dialogue," previews speech types and provides
students the opportunity to prepare and present a speech of self- introduction.
- Speech Steps boxes that prompt students to complete an activity that brings them one
step closer to preparing a speech. If students complete every speech step in the book,
they will have prepared an entire speech.
- "Invitation to Service Learning" boxes included in select chapters feature
short vignettes about students who applied their public speaking lessons to jobs as a
community volunteer and as part of a Service Learning or Internship assignment.
Table of Contents
1. Speaking in Public.
2. Listening.
3. Speech Topic and Purpose.
4. Audience and Speaking Environment.
5. Supporting Materials.
6. Developing and Supporting Ideas.
7. Reasoning.
8. Organization and Outlining.
9. Introductions and Conclusions.
10. Language.
11. Delivery.
12. Presentation Aids.
13. Informative Speaking.
14. Invitational Speaking.
15. Persuasive Speaking.
16. Reasoning and Persuasion.
17. Special Occasion Speaking.
Appendix. Small Group Speaking.
464 pages, Paperback