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Text and ReferenceSeventh Edition| ©2018 Dan O'Hair; Rob Stewart; Hannah Rubenstein

A Speaker's Guidebook is the best resource for public speaking in the classroom, on the job, and in the community. Praised for connecting with students who use it (and keep it!) year after year, this market leading tabbed, comb-bound text covers all the topics typically taught in the introd...
A Speaker's Guidebook is the best resource for public speaking in the classroom, on the job, and in the community. Praised for connecting with students who use it (and keep it!) year after year, this market leading tabbed, comb-bound text covers all the topics typically taught in the introductory course and is the easiest-to-use public speaking text available.
Hundreds of instructors have shaped the book to focus on helping students overcome the fundamental challenges of the public speaking classroom. The Seventh Edition provides even stronger coverage of organizing and outlining and speaking beyond the speech classroom. This edition emphasizes skills critical to good speechmaking--listening, ethics, credibility, and persuasion. Print and digital tools converge in the Launchpad for A Speaker’s Guidebook to help students with every aspect of the speech building process with a gorgeous, new collection of speech videos, accompanied by questions, to model speech techniques.
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The best speech advice at your fingertips--find exactly what  you need, when you need it

A Speaker's Guidebook is the best resource for public speaking in the classroom, on the job, and in the community. Praised for connecting with students who use it (and keep it!) year after year, this market leading tabbed, comb-bound text covers all the topics typically taught in the introductory course and is the easiest-to-use public speaking text available.
Hundreds of instructors have shaped the book to focus on helping students overcome the fundamental challenges of the public speaking classroom. The Seventh Edition provides even stronger coverage of organizing and outlining and speaking beyond the speech classroom. This edition emphasizes skills critical to good speechmaking--listening, ethics, credibility, and persuasion. Print and digital tools converge in the Launchpad for A Speaker’s Guidebook to help students with every aspect of the speech building process with a gorgeous, new collection of speech videos, accompanied by questions, to model speech techniques.

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Helps students quickly find what they need, when they need it in print and online. The print book includes a comb binding that allows the book to flip open easily and lie flat; 12 tabbed dividers provide an overview of each section. LaunchPad organizes each chapter by modules and allows students to easily access videos, adaptive learning tools, and other resources. Instructors can quickly assign LaunchPad modules and track student results in a gradebook.

The best coverage of the basic skills: organizing, outlining and research. A Speaker’s Guidebook recognizes that students struggle throughout the speech preparation process. Its cutting-edge coverage of research provides students with concrete guidelines on critically evaluating print and online sources, effectively and ethically using statistics, and conducting smart Internet searches.

Tools that help students apply what they learn to their own speeches. A host of examples, visual walk-throughs, and unique visually annotated sample speeches actually show students specific speech concepts in action and bring the elements and analysis of speech delivery into clear focus. Student speeches and video clips also demonstrate specific speech concepts in action.

Coverage for a lifetime of public speaking, including chapters on speaking in other courses, on the job, and online. A Speaker’s Guidebook grows with students’ needs with coverage of speaking beyond the speech classroom, in business, in groups, and there’s even a full chapter on speaking online. The online presentations chapter focuses on creating effective presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, and Prezi. Reference appendices provide advice such as how to cite sources in a variety of styles, handle question-and-answer sessions, and prepare for mediated communication.

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Always the best support on the basics of public speaking --now even better. A Speaker’s Guidebook is known for its focus on the fundamentals, and this edition is no different by providing foundational help on organizing and outlining.

  • New sample speech outlines in all formats. The seventh edition of A Speaker’s Guidebook now contains speeches outlined in each of the three outline formats: full sentence and key word outlines appear in Chapter 13, and a new phrase outline of a student speech organized in Monroe’s Motivational Sequence design appears in Chapter 26.
  • Additional emphasis on organizational arrangements. A Speaker’s Guidebook contains two full chapters (12 and 26) on organizational arrangements, revised in this edition for increased clarity. Two comprehensive new tables further enhance student learning. In Chapter 12, "One Topic (A Speech About Immigration) Organized Six Ways" provides students with a concrete demonstration of how one topic can be organized using six different patterns, thus easing students’ entry into this sometimes daunting aspect of speechmaking. Chapter 24 contains a table correlating all sample speeches and speech excerpts in A Speaker’s Guidebook with the organizational pattern it uses.

The 7th Edition doubles down on the skills that make up the pillars of good speechmaking--listening, ethics, credibility, and persuasion--with accessible coverage that students can apply to their own speeches.

  • The latest scholarship on listening. Fully revised in the last edition and made even more accessible in this one, Chapter 4, Listeners and Speakers stresses the centrality of listening in the communication act, the crucial role of selective perception and steps students can take to counter it, and reflects an effort to represent current scholarship on listening-processing strategies and approaches to the listening event published in the literature.
  • Interactive communication ethics, updated with the foundations. The revised Chapter 5 retains its popular basic structure while offering student speakers tangible new tools with which to engage in ethical decision making. A newly revised overview of major ethical theories, each reflecting differing standards by which to distinguish ethical from non-ethical behavior in communication,  enables students not just to read about what they "should" or "should not" do, but to reflect on and actively engage their own values when considering the role of ethics in the speechmaking process.
  • New coverage on building speaker credibility. The seventh edition adds to existing coverage of classical theories of ethos and contemporary theories of speaker credibility with a new section in Chapter 24 on building credibility during a speech.
  • Theory and practice of persuasion carefully streamlined to drive home core principles and demonstrate their application to building a persuasive speech. Persuasion lies at the heart of public speaking, but learning about it can be daunting for the first-time student. In three successive chapters, each carefully revised in this edition for increased accessibility and ever-more relevant examples, students learn about following: Classical and contemporary persuasive appeals, from ethos, pathos, and logos, to needs, motives, and routes of mental engagement (Chapter 24); constructing arguments using effective claims, evidence, and warrants that incorporate these appeals (Chapter 25); and choosing organizational patterns to maximize appeals for specific audiences (Chapter 26). New tables and dynamic figures provide students with the criteria they need to make effective choices.

New, expert guidance on speaking in business settings and in areas across the curriculum make this a book students will keep for a lifetime of public speaking   

  • Focus on Business and Professional Presentations. The authors completely re-envisioned Chapter 30 with new coverage of business reports and proposals, bringing material in line with current practice.
  • Even more Useful Coverage of Presentations in Other Courses. Using multidisciplinary feedback from experts, the authors have added new presentation types, omitted others,  and reorganized material in Chapter 31, Presentations in Other Courses, providing students with precise guidelines on preparing specialized oral presentations assigned in science, mathematics, and technical courses, as well as courses on the social sciences, arts and humanities, education, and nursing and allied health.

A brand new professionally shot, video program in LaunchPad introduces students to the foundations of speech-making. These new videos discuss topics such as speech anxiety, outlining, and persuasive speaking with humor, and get students interested in these essential topic and thinking about applying their learning to their speeches. After students watch the videos in LaunchPad, critical thinking questions about each video are easily assignable for a great pre-made assignment.

“This style accommodates today’s learning style in a fast-paced society.”
-- Keith Poole, Isothermal Community College

“A good solid introductory text that is appropriate for an introductory public speaking course.”
-- Kevin Mitchell, College of Southern Nevada

“Personally, I love the design of the book, since it is so easy to search for specific topics.”
-- Terri Scrima, Arapahoe Community College

“An effective and efficient way to teach types of speeches to college students. A textbook that could be kept for professional pointers.”
-- Annette Joseph, Pace University

“A great informative, thorough book of introduction to public speaking.”
-- Emanuel Pantelidis, Pace University

“Overall, very well planned and constructed, and the format is user-friendly.”
-- Sarah Cole, Framingham State University

“It is a great reference guide. Students can easily go back and forth through the text to find helpful information through the use of the tabs. The Guidebook uses several annotated student speeches that are educational and more "hands on" examples for students when they are developing their speeches. Overall, the book is detailed and accessible.”
-- Jen Anderson, Bellevue College

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Seventh Edition| 2018

Dan O'Hair; Rob Stewart; Hannah Rubenstein

Table of Contents

Getting Started with Confidence
1. Becoming a Public Speaker
2. Giving It a Try: Preparing Your First Speech

Public Speaking Basics
3. Managing Speech Anxiety
4. Listeners and Speakers
5. Ethical Public Speaking

Audience Analysis and Topic Selection 
6. Analyzing the Audience 
7. Selecting a Topic and Purpose

Supporting the Speech
8. Developing Supporting Materials
9. Finding Credible Print and Online Materials
10. Citing Sources in Your Speech

Organizing and Outlining
11. Organizing the Body of the Speech
12. Types of Organizational Arrangements 
13. Outlining the Speech

Introductions, Conclusions, and Language 
14. Developing the Introduction 
15. Developing the Conclusion 
16. Using Language to Style the Speech

Vocal and Nonverbal Delivery 
17. Methods of Delivery
18. The Voice in Delivery 
19. The Body in Delivery

Presentation Aids
20. Speaking with Presentation Aids
21. Designing Presentation Aids 
22. Using Presentation Software

Forms of Speeches
23. The Informative Speech
24. Principles of Persuasive Speaking
25. Developing Arguments for the Persuasive Speech 
26. Organizing the Persuasive Speech 
27. Special Occasion Speeches

Speaking Beyond the Speech Classroom 
28. Preparing Online Presentations
29. Communicating in Groups 
30. Business and Professional Presentations 
31. Presentations in Other College Courses

Sample Speeches
Sample Visually Annotated Informative Speech
Sample Visually Annotated Persuasive Speeches
Sample Special Occasion Speeches

Reference and Research Appendices
A.
 Commonly Mispronounced Words
B. Chicago Documentation
C. APA Documentation
D. Glossary

Online Appendices
E.
 Question-and-Answer Sessions
F. Preparing for TV and Radio Communication 
G. MLA Documentation
H. CBE/CSE Documentation
I. IEEE Documentation

Notes
Acknowledgements
Index

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Dan O'Hair

Dan O’Hair is dean of the University of Kentucky College of Communication and Information. He is past presidential professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Oklahoma and past president of the National Communication Association. He is coauthor or coeditor of eighteen communication texts and scholarly volumes and has published more than ninety research articles and chapters in dozens of communication, psychology, and health journals and books. He is a frequent presenter at national and international communication conferences, is on the editorial boards of various journals, and has served on numerous committees and task forces for regional and national communication associations.


Rob Stewart

Rob Stewart is the Senior Vice Provost and professor of communication studies at Texas Tech University. He is coauthor of A Speaker's Guidebook, and five editions of A Pocket Guide to Public Speaking, and has published more than 30 articles and book chapters.


Hannah Rubenstein

Hannah Rubenstein is a writer, editor, and part-time college instructor who has used her academic training in communication (MA, Fairfield University) to guide her collaborations on A Pocket Guide to Public Speaking, A Speaker's Guidebook,Public Speaking: Challenges and Choices, and other successful college texts. She heads her own communication firm, Hedgehog Productions, and teaches the basic public speaking course at Connecticut colleges.

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