Speech Craft
Using Macmillans highly touted LaunchPad to deliver superior content online, Speech Craft engages students with a contemporary edge and a focus on connecting with the local community. It’s a public speaking textbook unlike any other. Joshua Gunn’s distinctive style and strong scholarship are paired with compelling visuals to prepare students for public speaking situations in their own lives, whether they are giving a toast or presenting to the class. Wildly successful in its first edition, Speech Craft has drawn accolades from instructors around the country for its distinctive personality, student-friendly tone, and support for teaching the public speaking course both face-to-face and online. The second edition explores public speaking as advocacy and pays careful attention to diversity, empowering students to make ethical connections with their audiences and meaningful differences in the world around them.

A robust and powerful digital package, LaunchPad for Speech Craft supports instructors and students with the video assessment program powered by GoReact, thoroughly revised LearningCurve scenario-based questions, video speech clips, and more.

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Speech Craft
Using Macmillans highly touted LaunchPad to deliver superior content online, Speech Craft engages students with a contemporary edge and a focus on connecting with the local community. It’s a public speaking textbook unlike any other. Joshua Gunn’s distinctive style and strong scholarship are paired with compelling visuals to prepare students for public speaking situations in their own lives, whether they are giving a toast or presenting to the class. Wildly successful in its first edition, Speech Craft has drawn accolades from instructors around the country for its distinctive personality, student-friendly tone, and support for teaching the public speaking course both face-to-face and online. The second edition explores public speaking as advocacy and pays careful attention to diversity, empowering students to make ethical connections with their audiences and meaningful differences in the world around them.

A robust and powerful digital package, LaunchPad for Speech Craft supports instructors and students with the video assessment program powered by GoReact, thoroughly revised LearningCurve scenario-based questions, video speech clips, and more.

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Speech Craft

Speech Craft

by Joshua Gunn
Speech Craft

Speech Craft

by Joshua Gunn

Overview

Using Macmillans highly touted LaunchPad to deliver superior content online, Speech Craft engages students with a contemporary edge and a focus on connecting with the local community. It’s a public speaking textbook unlike any other. Joshua Gunn’s distinctive style and strong scholarship are paired with compelling visuals to prepare students for public speaking situations in their own lives, whether they are giving a toast or presenting to the class. Wildly successful in its first edition, Speech Craft has drawn accolades from instructors around the country for its distinctive personality, student-friendly tone, and support for teaching the public speaking course both face-to-face and online. The second edition explores public speaking as advocacy and pays careful attention to diversity, empowering students to make ethical connections with their audiences and meaningful differences in the world around them.

A robust and powerful digital package, LaunchPad for Speech Craft supports instructors and students with the video assessment program powered by GoReact, thoroughly revised LearningCurve scenario-based questions, video speech clips, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781319201562
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Publication date: 10/01/2020
Edition description: Second Edition
Pages: 464
Product dimensions: 7.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.65(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Building Confidence in the Craft
Chapter 2: Listening & the Ethics of Speech
Chapter 3: Audience Analysis

Achieve module: Inclusive Public Speaking
Chapter 4: Choosing a Speech Topic and Purpose

Achieve module: Avoiding the Dangers of Misinformation
Chapter 5: Researching Your Speech Topic
Chapter 6: Supporting Materials & Contextual Reasoning
Chapter 7: Organizing and Outlining Your Speech
Chapter 8: Introductions, Transitions, & Conclusions
Chapter 9: Style and Language
Chapter 10: Style and Delivery
Chapter 11: Presentation Aids
Chapter 12: Understanding Speech Genres
Chapter 13: Celebratory Speaking
Chapter 14: Informative Speaking
Chapter 15: Persuasive Speaking
Chapter 16: Making Arguments
Chapter 17: Speaking in the Workplace
Chapter 18: Speaking Online

Achieve module: Online Presentations in the Post-Pandemic Era
Chapter 19: Speaking for Social Change
Appendix: Sample Annotated Speeches

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