It’s About Them - Public Speaking in the 21st Century

by Sara Kim, Douglas Marshall, June Pulliam, Victoria VanNest, and James Yeargain

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The target audience for this project and this textbook are dual enrollment students. Dual enrollment is the opportunity for a student to be enrolled in high school and college at the same time. A dual enrollment student receives credit on both their high school and college transcripts for the same course.

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Publisher
LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network
Subjects
Social Sciences, Communication
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. About the Contributors
  6. Licensing
  7. Adaptations
  8. Adaptation Statement
  9. What is an Open Textbook?
  10. Licensing
  11. 1: Why Public Speaking Matters Today
  12. 1.1: Learning Objectives and Key Terms
  13. 1.2: Public Speaking in the Twenty-First Century
  14. 1.3: Why Is Public Speaking Important?
  15. 1.4: The Process of Public Speaking
  16. 2: Building Confidence
  17. 2.1: Learning Objectives and Key Terms
  18. 2.2: What is Communication Apprehension?
  19. 2.3: Classifying PSA
  20. 2.4: Learning Confidence
  21. 3: Audience Analysis
  22. 3.1: Learning Objectives and Key Terms
  23. 3.2: What is Audience Analysis? Why Conduct it?
  24. 3.3: Why Conduct an Audience Analysis?
  25. 3.4: Three Types of Audience Analysis
  26. 3.5: Conducting Audience Analysis
  27. 3.6: Using Your Audience Analysis
  28. 4: The Importance of Listening
  29. 4.1: Learning Objectives and Key Terms
  30. 4.2: Importance of Listening
  31. 4.3: Listening vs. Hearing
  32. 4.4: Listening Styles
  33. 4.5: Why Listening Is Difficult
  34. 4.6: Stages of Listening
  35. 4.7: Listening Critically
  36. 5: Ethics
  37. 5.1: Learning Objectives and Key Terms
  38. 5.2: The Ethics Pyramid
  39. 5.3: Ethics in Public Speaking
  40. 5.4: Free Speech
  41. 5.5: Mass Communication and Ethics
  42. 6: Researching Your Speech
  43. 6.1: Learning Objectives and Key Terms
  44. 6.2: Beginning the Research Process
  45. 6.3: What Is Research?
  46. 6.4: Developing a Research Strategy
  47. 6.5: Citing Sources
  48. 7: Supporting Ideas and Building Arguments
  49. 7.1: Learning Objectives and Key Terms
  50. 7.2: Crafting Supporting Ideas
  51. 7.3: Using Research as Support
  52. 7.4: Exploring Types of Support
  53. 7.5: Using Support and Creating Arguments
  54. 8: Organizing and Outlining
  55. 8.1: Learning Objectives and Key Terms
  56. 8.2: Why is Organizing and Outlining Important?
  57. 8.3: The Topic, General Purpose, Specific Purpose, and Thesis
  58. 8.4: Organizational Patterns of Arrangement for Informative Speeches
  59. 8.5: Outlining Your Speech
  60. 9: Delivery
  61. 9.1: Learning Objectives and Key Terms
  62. 9.2: The Importance of Delivery
  63. 9.3: Methods of Speech Delivery
  64. 9.4: Preparing for Your Delivery
  65. 9.5: Practicing Your Delivery
  66. 9.6: What to do When Delivering Your Speech
  67. 9.7: Expert Advice on the Voice from an Acting Instructor
  68. 10: Introductions and Conclusions
  69. 10.1: Learning Objectives and Key Terms
  70. 10.2: Introductions
  71. 10.3: Conclusions
  72. 11: Language
  73. 11.1: Learning Objectives and Key Terms
  74. 11.2: What Language Is and Does
  75. 11.3: Standards for Language in Public
  76. 11.4: Using Effective Language in Public Speaking
  77. 12: Presentation Aids
  78. 12.1: Learning Objectives and Key Terms
  79. 12.2: What are Presentation Aids?
  80. 12.3: Functions of Presentation Aids
  81. 12.4: Types of Presentation Aids
  82. 12.5: Using Presentation Slides
  83. 12.6: Low-Tech Presentation Aids
  84. 13: Persuasive Speaking
  85. 13.1: Learning Objectives and Key Terms
  86. 13.2: Why Persuade?
  87. 13.3: A Definition of Persuasion
  88. 13.4: Why is Persuasion Hard?
  89. 13.5: Traditional Views of Persuasion
  90. 13.6: Constructing a Persuasive Speech
  91. 13.7: Sample Persuasive Speech Outlines
  92. 14: Informative Speaking
  93. 14.1: Learning Objectives
  94. 14.2: What is an Informative Speech?
  95. 14.3: Types of Informative Speeches
  96. 14.4: Guidelines for Informative Speech Topic Selection and Preparation
  97. 14.5: Sample Informative Speeches and Speech Outlines
  98. 15: Special Occasion Speaking
  99. 15.1: Learning Objectives and Key Terms
  100. 15.2: Understanding Special Occasion Speaking
  101. 15.3: Types of Special Occasion Speeches
  102. 15.4: Special Occasion Language
  103. 15.5: Special Occasion Delivery
  104. 15.6: Sample Special Occasion Speech Outline
  105. 16: Online Public Speaking
  106. 16.1: Learning Objectives
  107. 16.2: Online Public Speaking
  108. Back Matter
  109. Index
  110. Glossary
  111. Detailed Licensing
  112. Detailed Licensing