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Table of Contents
  • Unit 1: Orientation and First Class Day
  • Student Information Sheet
  • Contract for an Effective Learning Community
  • Syllabus Review
  • Set Your Goals
  • Classmate Contact Information Sheet
  • First Day Ice Breaker Activity
  • Approaching the Subject
  • Who Is My Instructor?
  • Student Services Information
  • Following the Chain of Command
  • Self-Evaluation of Student Participation
  • Improving Your Test Taking Skills
  • Improving Your Self-Reflection Behavior after an Exam Worksheet
  • Personal Report of Communication Apprehension (PRCA-24)
  • Unit 2: Public Speaking
  • Historical "Roots" of Speech Communication
  • A Good Speech Is Like a Good Hamburger
  • Speaker Responsibilities When Developing a Speech
  • Occasions for Speaking
  • After-Dinner/Entertainment Speeches
  • What Do Good Speakers Do?
  • Exercise on Ethical Research and Speaking
  • Topic, Purpose, and Central Idea
  • The Central Idea (Thesis) and Its Relationship to the Speech
  • How Do I Construct a Thesis?
  • Creating Your Speech Objectives
  • Audience Analysis for the Informative Speech
  • Audience Analysis Persuasive
  • Persuasive Audience Analysis
  • Informative Speech Organizational Format
  • Organizational Patterns
  • Developing the Main Points for the Body
  • Example of Body Development
  • Developing the Introduction
  • Developing the Conclusion
  • Use Signposts and Transitional Phrases to Create Flow and Cohesion
  • Crediting Your Sources
  • Developing a Bibliography/Work Cited and Note Cards
  • Informative Speech Writing Formula
  • Monroe Motivated Sequence Persuasive Writing Formula
  • Identify the Rhetorical Techniques
  • Word Exercise
  • Strategies for Persuading about Problems
  • Strategies for Persuading about Solutions
  • A Public Speaking Delivery Checklist
  • Suggestions for Rehearsing Your Speech
  • Relaxation Techniques
  • Exercises to Improve Vocal Delivery
  • Instructions for Storybook Reading
  • Self-Introduction Speech Assignment
  • Informative Speech Assignment
  • Persuasive Speech Assignment
  • Evaluating Student or Public Speakers
  • Evaluation of the Speaker's Nonverbal Communication
  • Listener Self-Evaluation
  • Storybook Reading Grading Rubric
  • Self-Introductory Speech Critique
  • Informative Speech Critique
  • Persuasive Speech Evaluation: The Motivated Sequence
  • Grading Rubric for PowerPoint
  • Unit 3: Interpersonal
  • Getting to Know You Questionnaire
  • Autograph Party: Utilizing Initiating Skills
  • Making Your First Impression Count
  • Cultural Identity Worksheet
  • Effective Listening
  • Supportive Listening Role-Plays
  • Memory Pegs
  • Listener Self-Evaluation
  • Perception Exercise: The Lemon Exchange
  • Skill: Perception Checking
  • Perception Exercise
  • Stereotyping Exercise
  • Johari Window
  • Personality Reflection
  • Self-Disclosure
  • Self-Disclosure and Describing Feelings Exercise
  • Intimacy Game Guidelines
  • The Self: Who Do You Think You Are?
  • Self-Image: The Face in the Mirror
  • Assertiveness
  • Assertiveness Inventory
  • Assertive Situations Exercises
  • Behavioral Descriptions
  • Choosing Appropriate Language
  • Language Exercise
  • "I" Language
  • "I" Statements
  • Paraphrasing
  • Passive Aggressive Communication: The Crazymakers
  • Nonverbal Communication Exercise
  • Expressing Emotions
  • Ambiguous Feelings
  • Role-Plays to Describe Feelings
  • Empathy
  • Sexual-Assertiveness Questionnaire
  • Sexual-Assertion Skills
  • Sexual-Assault Fact Sheet
  • Battered Women Syndrome
  • Domestic Violence Facts
  • What Do I Do If I've Just Been Raped?
  • Prevention of Sexual Assault
  • Critic Your Relationship Based on Equality?
  • Power and Control Wheel
  • Unit 4: Business and Professional Communication and Small Group
  • Transactional Model of Communication
  • Elements of Communication
  • Remembering Names
  • Exercise: Communication Strengths and Weaknesses
  • Compliments
  • Giving Constructive Criticism
  • Role-Play for Criticism
  • Conflict Scenario Dialogues
  • Complaining Politely
  • Negative Workplace Climate
  • Workplace Bully Climate
  • Types of Interviews
  • Action Words Your Resume Should Use
  • Sample Resume
  • Top Ten Interview Questions
  • Illegal Questions
  • Questions to Ask the Interviewer
  • Responsibilities of the Interviewee
  • Responsibilities of the Interviewer
  • Selling You
  • Stranded in the Mountains
  • The Deadly Plague Case
  • Facts and Inferences
  • Observations, Assumptions, and Inferences Worksheet Directions
  • Stealing or Just Borrowing? An Inference and Fact Exercise
  • Group Discussion Observation Notes
  • Roles in Group Decision Making Observation Sheet
  • Group Product Presentation for SPCH 1321
  • Unit 5: Speeches for Analysis
  • Critical Analysis Paper for SPCH 1315
  • Eulogy Speeches
  • President Abraham Lincoln "Gettysburg Address," November 19, 1863
  • President Ronald Reagan "Challenger Disaster," January 28, 1986
  • President Barack Obama "Interfaith Prayer Vigil at Newtown High School"
  • Keynote Addresses
  • Elizabeth Glazier "Democratic National Convention Address," July 14, 1992
  • Mary Fisher "Republican National Convention Address," August 19, 1992
  • Julian Castro "Democratic National Convention Keynote Address," September 4, 2012
  • Eleanor Roosevelt "United Nations General Assembly Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," September 28, 1948
  • Sagoyewatha (Red Jacket) Defends Native American Religion, 1805 Red Jacket's response to a Boston missionary society requesting permission from him to proselytize among the Iroquois settlements in northern New York State
  • Commencement Addresses
  • President Lyndon Baines at Johnson at Howard University "To Fulfill These Rights," June 4, 1965
  • First Lady Barbara Pierce Bush at Wellesley College, June 1, 1990
  • Justice Sonia Sotomayor at New York University, May 16, 2012
  • Admiral William H. McRaven at The University of Texas at Austin May 17, 2014
  • Acceptance Speeches
  • Acceptance of an Honorary Visiting Professorship at Rice University John F. Kennedy "Race to the Moon" Speech delivered at Rice University on September 12, 1962
  • Acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize Mother Teresa Nobel Peace Prize Speech delivered on December 10, 1979
  • Address to the Nation after the Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion
  • President Ronald W. Reagan on January 28, 1986
  • Speech from Speaking Tour about the Women's Right to Vote
  • Susan B. Anthony's Right to Vote Speech: 1873
  • Speech of Dedication and Tribute
  • President Theodore Roosevelt "The Man with the Muck-Rake" Speech at the "Laying of the Corner Stone of the Office Building of the House of Representatives" delivered on April 14, 1906
  • President John F. Kennedy Remarks at a Dinner Honoring Representative Albert Thomas in Houston, Texas, delivered November 21, 1963
  • Speech to Honor National Education Week
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Speech at Cotulla, Texas, on Nov. 7, 1966
  • Statement on the Articles of Impeachment
  • Barbara Charline Jordan delivered on July 25, 1974
  • Inaugural Addresses
  • Abraham Lincoln First Inaugural Address delivered on March 4, 1861
  • John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address delivered on January 20, 1961

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      Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.
      Publication Date: 07/08/2019
      ISBN13: 9781524960520, 978-1524960520
      ISBN10: 1524960527
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      Table of Contents
      • Unit 1: Orientation and First Class Day
      • Student Information Sheet
      • Contract for an Effective Learning Community
      • Syllabus Review
      • Set Your Goals
      • Classmate Contact Information Sheet
      • First Day Ice Breaker Activity
      • Approaching the Subject
      • Who Is My Instructor?
      • Student Services Information
      • Following the Chain of Command
      • Self-Evaluation of Student Participation
      • Improving Your Test Taking Skills
      • Improving Your Self-Reflection Behavior after an Exam Worksheet
      • Personal Report of Communication Apprehension (PRCA-24)
      • Unit 2: Public Speaking
      • Historical "Roots" of Speech Communication
      • A Good Speech Is Like a Good Hamburger
      • Speaker Responsibilities When Developing a Speech
      • Occasions for Speaking
      • After-Dinner/Entertainment Speeches
      • What Do Good Speakers Do?
      • Exercise on Ethical Research and Speaking
      • Topic, Purpose, and Central Idea
      • The Central Idea (Thesis) and Its Relationship to the Speech
      • How Do I Construct a Thesis?
      • Creating Your Speech Objectives
      • Audience Analysis for the Informative Speech
      • Audience Analysis Persuasive
      • Persuasive Audience Analysis
      • Informative Speech Organizational Format
      • Organizational Patterns
      • Developing the Main Points for the Body
      • Example of Body Development
      • Developing the Introduction
      • Developing the Conclusion
      • Use Signposts and Transitional Phrases to Create Flow and Cohesion
      • Crediting Your Sources
      • Developing a Bibliography/Work Cited and Note Cards
      • Informative Speech Writing Formula
      • Monroe Motivated Sequence Persuasive Writing Formula
      • Identify the Rhetorical Techniques
      • Word Exercise
      • Strategies for Persuading about Problems
      • Strategies for Persuading about Solutions
      • A Public Speaking Delivery Checklist
      • Suggestions for Rehearsing Your Speech
      • Relaxation Techniques
      • Exercises to Improve Vocal Delivery
      • Instructions for Storybook Reading
      • Self-Introduction Speech Assignment
      • Informative Speech Assignment
      • Persuasive Speech Assignment
      • Evaluating Student or Public Speakers
      • Evaluation of the Speaker's Nonverbal Communication
      • Listener Self-Evaluation
      • Storybook Reading Grading Rubric
      • Self-Introductory Speech Critique
      • Informative Speech Critique
      • Persuasive Speech Evaluation: The Motivated Sequence
      • Grading Rubric for PowerPoint
      • Unit 3: Interpersonal
      • Getting to Know You Questionnaire
      • Autograph Party: Utilizing Initiating Skills
      • Making Your First Impression Count
      • Cultural Identity Worksheet
      • Effective Listening
      • Supportive Listening Role-Plays
      • Memory Pegs
      • Listener Self-Evaluation
      • Perception Exercise: The Lemon Exchange
      • Skill: Perception Checking
      • Perception Exercise
      • Stereotyping Exercise
      • Johari Window
      • Personality Reflection
      • Self-Disclosure
      • Self-Disclosure and Describing Feelings Exercise
      • Intimacy Game Guidelines
      • The Self: Who Do You Think You Are?
      • Self-Image: The Face in the Mirror
      • Assertiveness
      • Assertiveness Inventory
      • Assertive Situations Exercises
      • Behavioral Descriptions
      • Choosing Appropriate Language
      • Language Exercise
      • "I" Language
      • "I" Statements
      • Paraphrasing
      • Passive Aggressive Communication: The Crazymakers
      • Nonverbal Communication Exercise
      • Expressing Emotions
      • Ambiguous Feelings
      • Role-Plays to Describe Feelings
      • Empathy
      • Sexual-Assertiveness Questionnaire
      • Sexual-Assertion Skills
      • Sexual-Assault Fact Sheet
      • Battered Women Syndrome
      • Domestic Violence Facts
      • What Do I Do If I've Just Been Raped?
      • Prevention of Sexual Assault
      • Critic Your Relationship Based on Equality?
      • Power and Control Wheel
      • Unit 4: Business and Professional Communication and Small Group
      • Transactional Model of Communication
      • Elements of Communication
      • Remembering Names
      • Exercise: Communication Strengths and Weaknesses
      • Compliments
      • Giving Constructive Criticism
      • Role-Play for Criticism
      • Conflict Scenario Dialogues
      • Complaining Politely
      • Negative Workplace Climate
      • Workplace Bully Climate
      • Types of Interviews
      • Action Words Your Resume Should Use
      • Sample Resume
      • Top Ten Interview Questions
      • Illegal Questions
      • Questions to Ask the Interviewer
      • Responsibilities of the Interviewee
      • Responsibilities of the Interviewer
      • Selling You
      • Stranded in the Mountains
      • The Deadly Plague Case
      • Facts and Inferences
      • Observations, Assumptions, and Inferences Worksheet Directions
      • Stealing or Just Borrowing? An Inference and Fact Exercise
      • Group Discussion Observation Notes
      • Roles in Group Decision Making Observation Sheet
      • Group Product Presentation for SPCH 1321
      • Unit 5: Speeches for Analysis
      • Critical Analysis Paper for SPCH 1315
      • Eulogy Speeches
      • President Abraham Lincoln "Gettysburg Address," November 19, 1863
      • President Ronald Reagan "Challenger Disaster," January 28, 1986
      • President Barack Obama "Interfaith Prayer Vigil at Newtown High School"
      • Keynote Addresses
      • Elizabeth Glazier "Democratic National Convention Address," July 14, 1992
      • Mary Fisher "Republican National Convention Address," August 19, 1992
      • Julian Castro "Democratic National Convention Keynote Address," September 4, 2012
      • Eleanor Roosevelt "United Nations General Assembly Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," September 28, 1948
      • Sagoyewatha (Red Jacket) Defends Native American Religion, 1805 Red Jacket's response to a Boston missionary society requesting permission from him to proselytize among the Iroquois settlements in northern New York State
      • Commencement Addresses
      • President Lyndon Baines at Johnson at Howard University "To Fulfill These Rights," June 4, 1965
      • First Lady Barbara Pierce Bush at Wellesley College, June 1, 1990
      • Justice Sonia Sotomayor at New York University, May 16, 2012
      • Admiral William H. McRaven at The University of Texas at Austin May 17, 2014
      • Acceptance Speeches
      • Acceptance of an Honorary Visiting Professorship at Rice University John F. Kennedy "Race to the Moon" Speech delivered at Rice University on September 12, 1962
      • Acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize Mother Teresa Nobel Peace Prize Speech delivered on December 10, 1979
      • Address to the Nation after the Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion
      • President Ronald W. Reagan on January 28, 1986
      • Speech from Speaking Tour about the Women's Right to Vote
      • Susan B. Anthony's Right to Vote Speech: 1873
      • Speech of Dedication and Tribute
      • President Theodore Roosevelt "The Man with the Muck-Rake" Speech at the "Laying of the Corner Stone of the Office Building of the House of Representatives" delivered on April 14, 1906
      • President John F. Kennedy Remarks at a Dinner Honoring Representative Albert Thomas in Houston, Texas, delivered November 21, 1963
      • Speech to Honor National Education Week
      • Lyndon B. Johnson Speech at Cotulla, Texas, on Nov. 7, 1966
      • Statement on the Articles of Impeachment
      • Barbara Charline Jordan delivered on July 25, 1974
      • Inaugural Addresses
      • Abraham Lincoln First Inaugural Address delivered on March 4, 1861
      • John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address delivered on January 20, 1961

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