Speaking with a Purpose provides students with the "nuts and bolts" needed to become effective public speakers.

Intentionally brief, this text allows students to concentrate on the preparation, practice, and presentation of their speeches without getting bogged down by theoretical discussions. The focus on purpose and audience response, which incorporates consideration of cultural diversity, helps students identify ways to make their speeches more effective. Highly popular and practical, this text is the best of the brief books available on the subject.

Features

• Gives clear, concise, and immediately applicable advice without extraneous verbiage or non-essential material.
• Integrates the essentials of communication theory with a step-by-step approach to the speechmaking process to provide the right balance for beginning speakers.
• Includes "Communication Rating Forms," which contain useful matrices for evaluating speeches and enhancing critical thinking skills.
• Emphasizes the speaker's purpose, offering a unifying theme for the text and the course.
• Contains an extensive section on ethics and plagiarism, which stresses to students the importance of these topics and of being ethical speakers (Ch. 1).
• Offers a list of suggested Web sites at the end of each chapter to give students resources for additional study and research.