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O'Hair, Rubenstein, and Stewart’s acclaimed guide is the market leading handbook of its kind, offering the content and resources students need to overcome the fundamental challenges of public speaking. Its tabbed, spiral-binding format makes it easy to find the trusted speech advice on a full ran...

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O'Hair, Rubenstein, and Stewart’s acclaimed guide is the market leading handbook of its kind, offering the content and resources students need to overcome the fundamental challenges of public speaking. Its tabbed, spiral-binding format makes it easy to find the trusted speech advice on a full range of topics and situations.

The updated new edition addresses the most pressing needs of today's students—from presenting online to diversity and inclusion—making it the most complete speech handbook available. With new research, an entire chapter dedicated to online presentations, and new student speech videos, it provides the best support for navigating the accelerated shift to digital communication. In addition, the authors partnered with two expert reviewers on linguistic diversity, creating a more inclusive text where culture is an asset in the teaching, learning, and practice of communication.

Now available with Achieve! The Achieve courseware for A Speaker’s Guidebook sets the standard for driving student learning in your public speaking course with powerful learning content, engaging activities, and actionable insights and analytics. Achieve brings together an interactive e-textbook, speech videos, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing and other assessments, learning activities, and extensive instructor resources–all within a new, enhanced technology platform carefully built over the past five years

Features

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

An entire chapter on Preparing Online Presentations (Chapter 28) provides students with robust support on the kind of speaking they are increasingly doing the most of: speaking in mediated, online contexts.

Thorough coverage of organizing, outlining, and research — the basic skills of speechmaking that students often struggle with. Cutting-edge content gives students the guidelines they need to critically evaluate print and online sources, effectively and ethically use statistics, and conduct smart Internet searches.

Tools students can use immediately in their own speeches. With a variety of examples, annotated samples, and more, students see specific speech concepts in action.

Strategies for speech making outside the public speaking classroom. Demonstrates to students how to use these skills in other environments with precise guidelines on preparing specialized oral presentations throughout their college career. Specific subjects covered range from math and science to education and allied health. Students also learn how to use their skills professionally with strategies for speaking online, in groups, and more.

New to This Edition

To maintain it’s well-known currency, you’ll find new and updated content throughout, including:

  • New part openers with key tips for each group of chapters. These relate to videos in Achieve that preview content. There are also guiding questions to focus students on the material they are about to read.
  • New Speaker’s Review feature. These sections review the most important information within each chapter through thought-provoking questions directly related to the material.
  • Revised chapters on theory and the practice of persuasion will help drive home how to effectively build a persuasive speech.

More inclusive approach to linguistic diversity. The authors partnered with two expert reviewers to strengthen the text on being more inclusive of the diversity of dialects, accents, and backgrounds of speakers.

Eighth edition includes 12 full-text sample speeches, nine of which were written by students. Five of the brand-new full-length speeches from real students have been professionally filmed and added to Achieve, and they also appear as annotated sample speeches within the text. These make perfect learning models for the classroom, while the professional speeches, from notable men and women, will inspire. Students will hear from civil rights icon John Lewis, Parkland student X González, and more.

Now available with Achieve! The Achieve courseware for A Speaker’s Guidebook sets the standard for driving student learning in your public speaking course with powerful learning content, engaging activities, and actionable insights and analytics. Achieve brings together an interactive e-textbook, speech videos, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing and other assessments, learning activities, and extensive instructor resources–all within a new, enhanced technology platform carefully built over the past five years

Achieve for A Speaker’s Guidebook contains coverage on online speaking in an Achieve module in addition to what’s in the printed text. It  provides more guidance for students as they navigate this speaking context, and a Speechography, a collection of suggested professional speeches from important current events.

“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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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 Annotated Persuasive Speech
Sample Visually Annotated Introductory Speech
Sample Visually Annotated Informative Speech

Reference and Research Appendices
A. Chicago Documentation
B. APA Documentation
C. Glossary

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

Notes
Acknowledgements
Index

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 University of Bridgeport and other Connecticut colleges.

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