Stronger engagement

After each new topic is presented, students answer a few questions about the main ideas. This keeps students maintaining focus, actively processing the information, and constructing new knowledge.

Authentic examples

Each chapter offers concise presentation of key concepts. Authentic example speeches and advice from developing speakers put the concepts into context.

Practice and revision opportunities

Formative assessments help students outline, draft, practice, receive feedback, and revise as they develop their speeches using tools like Outlining Templates and Video Recorders powered by GoReact.

Everything you need

Public Speaking for Everyone provides everything you need for a more engaging public speaking course, including the text, example speeches, interactive video recorders, outlining templates, study questions, and an analytics dashboard. We've worked hard to make the adoption and integration process simple and painless. And we can tailor the webtext to match your program’s emphasis, term length, and assigned speeches.

1. The Audience and You
   1. Introduction
   2. The Big Ideas
   3. What Is Public Speaking?
   4. Everyone’s a Speaker
   5. Understanding Apprehension
   6. Coping With Apprehension
   7. Taking an Audience-Centered Approach
   8. Considering Ethics
   9. Making Effective Choices
   10. The Rhetorical Situation
   11. Using Rhetoric
   12. Practice Activity: Identify the Rhetorical Situation
   13. Assignment: Assignment 1 Overview
   14. Assignment: Your Rhetorical Situation
   15. Chapter Wrap-Up
2. Beginning the Process
   1. Introduction
   2. A Process for Public Speaking
   3. Stage 1: Gather
   4. Assignment: Choose Your Topic
   5. Developing a Thesis
   6. Assignment: Draft Your Thesis Statement
   7. Audience Analysis
   8. Using Demographics
   9. Using Psychographics
   10. Audience Analysis Methods
   11. Using Situational Analysis
   12. Assignment: Create Your Audience Analysis
   13. Stage 2: Organize
   14. Support: Using Examples
   15. Assignment: Create Your Working Outline
   16. Chapter Wrap-Up
3. Practicing Your Style
   1. Introduction
   2. Stage 3: Style
   3. What’s in a Word?
   4. Writing for Speeches
   5. Transitions and Signposting
   6. Styling Your Introductions and Conclusions
   7. Assignment: Develop Your Detailed Outline
   8. Stage 4: Practice
   9. Using Your Voice
   10. Nonverbal Communication
   11. Practice Activity: Review a Video
   12. Practice Activity: Identify Delivery Techniques
   13. Speaking Outlines
   14. Assignment: Create Your Speaking Outline
   15. Mediated Presentations
   16. Practice Activity: Record a Video
   17. Assignment: Record Your Practice Speech
   18. Assignment: Evaluate Your Practice Speech
   19. Chapter Wrap-Up
4. Delivering Your Message
   1. Introduction
   2. How Communication Works
   3. Creating Communication
   4. Breaking Through the Noise
   5. Active Listening
   6. Listening Behaviors
   7. Ethical Listening
   8. Reviewing Your Peers
   9. Practice Activity: Complete a Peer Review
   10. Stage 5: Deliver
   11. Reading the Room
   12. Dealing With Apprehension
   13. Assignment: Record Your Introductory Speech
   14. Assignment: Reflect on Your Introductory Speech
   15. Chapter Wrap-Up
5. Speaking to Inform
   1. Introduction
   2. Informative Speaking
   3. How to Speak Informatively
   4. Assignment: Assignment 2 Overview
   5. Audience Analysis for Informative Speaking
   6. Assignment: Expand Your Audience Analysis
   7. Informative Sources
   8. Finding Sources
   9. Research Practices
   10. Determining Credibility
   11. Checking Your Information
   12. Practice Activity: Evaluate a Source
   13. Using Your Research
   14. Developing an Informative Thesis
   15. Assignment: Draft Your Thesis Statement
   16. Chapter Wrap-Up
6. Developing Your Informative Speech
   1. Introduction
   2. Organizing and Outlining
   3. Keeping Track of Sources
   4. Organizational Strategies
   5. Informative Introductions and Conclusions
   6. Assignment: Create Your Working Outline
   7. Choosing Informative Language
   8. Using Ethical Language in Informative Speeches
   9. Guiding Your Audience
   10. Citing Your Sources
   11. Practice Activity: Create Citations
   12. Assignment: Develop Your Detailed Outline
   13. Building a Reference List
   14. Assignment: Create Your Reference List
   15. Chapter Wrap-Up
7. Practicing Informative Speaking
   1. Introduction
   2. Vocalics for Informative Speeches
   3. Nonverbal Techniques for Informative Speeches
   4. Informative Speaking Outlines
   5. Assignment: Create Your Speaking Outline
   6. Informative Speech Criteria
   7. Assignment: Record Your Practice Speech
   8. Assignment: Evaluate Your Practice Speech
   9. Giving Feedback for Informative Speeches
   10. Assignment: Complete Your Peer Review
   11. Chapter Wrap-Up
8. Informative Delivery and Reflection
   1. Introduction
   2. Using Feedback
   3. Asking Good Questions
   4. Responding to Questions
   5. Visualizing Success
   6. Warming Up
   7. Assignment: Record Your Informative Speech
   8. Assignment: Reflect on Your Informative Speech
   9. Chapter Wrap-Up
9. Speaking to Persuade
   1. Introduction
   2. Persuasion and Persuasive Reasoning
   3. Finding a Persuasive Topic
   4. Assignment: Assignment 3 Overview
   5. Audience Analysis and Persuasion
   6. Assignment: Expand Your Audience Analysis
   7. Appealing to Logos
   8. Appealing to Ethos, Pathos, and Kairos
   9. Avoiding Logical Fallacies
   10. Considering Counterarguments
   11. Building Your Case
   12. Using Your Sources
   13. Practice Activity: Identify the Perspective
   14. Developing a Persuasive Thesis
   15. Assignment: Draft Your Thesis Statement
   16. Chapter Wrap-Up
10. Developing Your Persuasive Speech
    1. Introduction
    2. Organizing a Persuasive Speech
    3. More Organizational Strategies
    4. Including Counterarguments
    5. Balancing Rhetorical Appeals
    6. Persuasive Introductions and Conclusions
    7. Practice Activity: Evaluate a Persuasive Speech
    8. Assignment: Create Your Working Outline
    9. Using Persuasive Language
    10. Styling a Memorable Speech
    11. Assignment: Develop Your Detailed Outline
    12. Assignment: Create Your Reference List
    13. Chapter Wrap-Up
11. Practicing Persuasion
    1. Introduction
    2. Using Persuasive Vocalics
    3. Persuasive Movements and Gestures
    4. Persuasive Expressions
    5. Assignment: Create Your Speaking Outline
    6. Persuasive Speech Criteria
    7. Assignment: Record Your Practice Speech
    8. Assignment: Evaluate Your Practice Speech
    9. Giving Feedback on Persuasive Speeches
    10. Assignment: Complete Your Peer Review
    11. Chapter Wrap-Up
12. Persuasive Delivery and Reflection
    1. Introduction
    2. Getting Comfortable as a Speaker
    3. Observing Your Audience
    4. Responding to Your Audience
    5. Asking Clarifying Questions
    6. Asking Challenging Questions
    7. Assignment: Record Your Persuasive Speech
    8. Assignment: Reflect on Your Persuasive Speech
    9. Chapter Wrap-Up
13. Using Presentation Aids
    1. Introduction
    2. Exploring Presentation Aids
    3. Visual Aids
    4. Audiovisual and Interactive Aids
    5. Selecting Presentation Aids
    6. Creating Presentation Aids
    7. Styling Presentation Aids
    8. Practice Activity: Design a Slide
    9. Using Presentation Aids Ethically
    10. Prioritize Accessibility
    11. Practice Activity: Slides and Images
    12. Practicing and Preparing
    13. Speaking With Presentation Aids
    14. Chapter Wrap-Up
14. Group Presentations
    1. Introduction
    2. Presenting in Groups
    3. Group Speaking Situations
    4. Practice Activity: Group Presentations
    5. Planning Group Presentations
    6. Working Together
    7. Dividing Tasks in Groups
    8. Communication and Participation
    9. Making Group Decisions
    10. Resolving Conflicts
    11. Practicing Group Presentations
    12. Delivering Group Presentations
    13. Chapter Wrap-Up
15. Special Occasion and Workplace Speeches
    1. Introduction
    2. Speaking on Special Occasions
    3. Special Event Speeches
    4. Memorials and Celebrations
    5. Creating a Special Occasion Speech
    6. Delivering a Special Occasion Speech
    7. Practice Activity: Special Occasion Speech
    8. Speaking in the Workplace
    9. Informative Speaking in the Workplace
    10. Persuasive Speaking in the Workplace
    11. Tips for Speaking at Work
    12. Practice Activity: Workplace Presentation
    13. Chapter Wrap-Up
16. Social Media and Civic Engagement
    1. Introduction
    2. Using Your Voice
    3. A Process for Civic Engagement
    4. Practice Activity: Civic Engagement and Rhetoric
    5. Public Speaking and Social Media
    6. Speaking Effectively Through Social Media
    7. A Process for Social Media Engagement
    8. Amplify Your Voice
    9. Using Social Media Ethically
    10. Social Media, Sharing, and Privacy
    11. Practice Activity: Using Social Media
    12. Chapter Wrap-Up
17. Supplemental Speech
    1. Introduction
    2. Assignment: Your Rhetorical Situation
    3. Assignment: Choose Your Topic
    4. Assignment: Create Your Audience Analysis
    5. Assignment: Draft Your Thesis Statement
    6. Assignment: Build Your Working Outline
    7. Assignment: Develop Your Detailed Outline
    8. Assignment: Create Your Speaking Outline
    9. Assignment: Record Your Practice Speech
    10. Assignment: Record Your Final Speech
    11. Assignment: Reflect on Your Speech

Interactive content

Video Recorders

Our embedded video recording and assessment tool powered by GoReact presents common speech assignments and tools for feedback in line with the expository content.

Outlining Templates

Guided prompts lead students through creating effective working outlines, detailed outlines, and speaking outlines.

Study questions

Multiple-choice and short-answer questions guide students to critical information by providing immediate feedback. These low-risk opportunities allow students to reset answers to try again or study for tests.

Response boards

Students engage each other through discussion boards that only allow students to see the responses of their peers after they’ve posted their own comment.

Polls

Polls allow students to share their opinions and then view a live pie chart displaying the responses of all class members.

Study tools

Webtext Reader app

Students can access materials and complete assignments offline with our mobile app available for iOS and Android.

Reading tools

Reading tools allow students to click on vocabulary terms for definitions and mark up their own webtext by highlighting and adding notes in the margins.

Read to Me

Our text-to-speech feature instantly creates an audio version of the webtext page to extend the reach of online content.

My Progress

Students can keep track of their own work inside My Progress, which records their scores, time spent, and completion.

The following materials are available for this course:

• lecture slides
• test bank

Authors

Elizabeth Jones, PhD
Ashley Bourne-Richardson, PhD

Advisors

Liliana Herakova, PhD, University of Maine
Zithobile Nxumalo, PhD, North Carolina A&T University
Armeda Reitzel, PhD, Humboldt State
Robert Richardson, PhD, Westminster College
Cicely Wilson, PhD, Union University

Peer Reviewers

Victoria Brown, PhD, University of Mississippi
Shera Carter Sackey, PhD, San Jacinto College
Kakali Bhattacharya Chakrabarti, PhD, Austin Peay State University
Jean L. DeHart, PhD, Appalachian State University
Kiran Dhillon, DHA, USC Annenberg
Leland Fecher, MA, Clemson University
Ryan Goke, MS, Murray State University
Laurie Guttenberg, MA, Nassau Community College
Chip Hall, MA, Carson-Newman
Jodi Hallsten Lyczak, PhD, University of Illinois Springfield
Tony Kroll, MS, Dallas College
Diana Martinez, PhD, Pepperdine University
James David Maxson, PhD, University of Memphis
Melissa Meek, PhD, Blinn College
John Parrish, MA, Tarrant County College
Dara Phillips, PhD, Wor-Wic Community College
Brandi Quesenberry, MS, Virginia Tech
Bill Sheffield, MA, Western Nebraska Community College
Pamela Solberg, MA, Western Technical College

Publisher

Mary Jane Lindrum

Executive Editor

Jenny Westrick

Creative Director

Zara Elizabeth Crockett

Content Editor

Alexandra Tanner

Project Manager

Autumn McGimsey

Lead Learning Designer

Lindsy Pietroski

Learning Design Coordinator

Laura Aitcheson

Learning Designers

Jonathan Campbell
Rebekah Krahe

Assistant Learning Designer

Stephen Clark

Production Editor & Coordinator

Natalie Welch

Production Editors

Rachel Garzarelli
Marquita Jones

Assistant Production Editors

Angelica Burac
Erin Griffin Collum
Serena Giunchigliani
Thinacha Newberry

Video Production

Zara Elizabeth Crockett
Calvin Florian
Kristian Melom

User Interface Design

Sam Korthof
Clint McFarlin