Packed with hands-on applications, PUBLIC SPEAKING: CHOICES AND RESPONSIBILITY, 2e delivers a practical and up-to-date public speaking text based on rhetorical theory. It emphasizes the role of choices and civic engagement/responsibility throughout in narrative, features, and examples. Giving students valuable insight, it describes the audience as a "public" to which the speaker belongs, rather than as a separate entity defined only by demographics. The Second Edition includes new coverage of Monroe’s Motivated Sequence, discussions of TED talks and PechaKucha, extended treatment of fallacies, and expanded emphasis on outlining. New Remix features apply the latest research in business and social science to public speaking skills. In addition, MindTap® digital learning solution helps instructors engage and transform students into critical thinkers.

Part I: FUNDAMENTALS OF GOOD SPEAKING.
1. Public Speaking.
2. Ethics and the Responsible Speaker.
3. Understanding Audiences and Publics.
4. Becoming a Skilled Listener.
Part II: CREATING A GREAT SPEECH.
5. Choosing a Topic and Purpose.
6. Research.
7. Organization.
Part III: PRESENTING A GREAT SPEECH.
8. Verbal Style.
9. Delivery.
10. Presentation Aids.
Part IV: KINDS OF SPEECHES.
11. Informative Speaking.
12. Being Persuasive.
13. Special Types of Speeches and Presentations.

Packed with hands-on applications, PUBLIC SPEAKING: CHOICES AND RESPONSIBILITY, 2e delivers a practical and up-to-date public speaking text based on rhetorical theory. It emphasizes the role of choices and civic engagement/responsibility throughout in narrative, features, and examples. Giving students valuable insight, it describes the audience as a "public" to which the speaker belongs, rather than as a separate entity defined only by demographics. The Second Edition includes new coverage of Monroe’s Motivated Sequence, discussions of TED talks and PechaKucha, extended treatment of fallacies, and expanded emphasis on outlining. New Remix features apply the latest research in business and social science to public speaking skills. In addition, MindTap® digital learning solution helps instructors engage and transform students into critical thinkers. Coverage of group presentations has been moved to Chapter 9 on delivery to emphasize the continuity of skills between solo and group delivery. Chapter 7 on organization now features Monroe’s Motivated Sequence, demonstrating how it adds distinctive organizational forms and purposes. Discussions of TED talks and PechaKucha are included in Chapter 12 on informative speaking, illustrating how these vital new forms add to students’ choices about how to give compelling and effective informative presentations. In addition, extended treatment of fallacies emphasizes their key features and distinguishes them from good arguments. The text’s expanded emphasis on outlining includes new examples for student use in the Appendix. Each chapter now includes the Remix, an exciting new feature that brings together the best of research in business and social science to bear on the practical questions of how to become an excellent public speaker. Practical, hands-on "Try It" applications encourage students to analyze and act on what they just read, enabling them to put what they learn into practice. Based on real questions the authors’ students asked, the FAQ feature provides hip, interesting facts and answers to questions that students will ask and will want to know the answers to. The robust instructor’s manual is packed with countless creative ideas for getting students thinking on their feet and mastering public speaking.