MindTap V2.0 for Hamilton's Essentials of Public Speaking, 1 term Instant Access, 6th Edition

Cheryl Hamilton

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MindTap V2.0 for Hamilton's Essentials of Public Speaking, 1 term Instant Access 6th Edition by Cheryl Hamilton

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MindTap V2.0 for Hamilton's Essentials of Public Speaking, 6th Edition is the digital learning solution that powers students from memorization to mastery. It gives you complete control of your course--to provide engaging content, to challenge every individual and to build their confidence. Empower students to accelerate their progress with MindTap. MindTap: Powered by You.\n\nMindTap gives you complete ownership of your content and learning experience. Customize the interactive syllabi, emphasize the most important topics and add your own material or notes in the ebook. MindTap\u2019s Observe, Prepare, Practice, and Present structures every chapter, beginning with low-stakes activities that build over the course so students may demonstrate their knowledge and skill in high-stakes performances of informative and persuasive speech presentations.\n\n\"Observe\" activities ask students to watch a speech from the Speech Video Library and answer auto-graded questions.\n\n\"Prepare\" activities guide students through topic generation, research, organizing and citing their research, and ultimately generating a complete outline of their speech, including note cards, using MindTap\u2019s Outline Builder tool.\n\nFrequent, low-stakes \"Practice\" activities ask students to provide an impromptu video response to an ethical question that emphasizes chapter concepts and promotes civic engagement.\n\n\"Present\" activities ask students to record their own video speech demonstrating their knowledge of chapter concepts, to share with their peers and instructor. Pre-built rubrics auto-sum student work for easy instructor grading.

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Cheryl Hamilton

Cheryl Hamilton, an author well known for her writing style and award-winning teaching, is professor emeritus at Tarrant County College-NE Campus in the Communication Arts Department where she served as department chair and communication professor and continues to teach each fall semester to stay close to students and try out new textbook material. Her numerous awards -- including the Chancellor's Award for Exemplary Teaching -- show her love of teaching. Although she specialized in business communication and public speaking, Dr. Hamilton taught more than 10 different communication courses. Throughout her career, she served as mentor to many beginning teachers; presented more than 40 papers at national conferences; conducted numerous seminars for large and small corporations; served on multiple educational committees; and authored two additional texts -- THE ESSENTIALS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING and COMMUNICATING FOR SUCCESS. An Illinois native, Dr. Hamilton received her bachelor's degree from Eastern Illinois University, her master's degree from Purdue University, and her doctoral degree from the University of North Texas.

What's New

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New "Observe" activities ask students to watch a speech from the Speech Video Library and answer auto-graded questions to gain insights into public speaking performances and apply chapter concepts. Instructors may also customize this Observe activity so students watch the same Speech Video but reply to open ended questions, ensuring that instructors create their course in ways that work best for them.
New "Prepare" activities guide students through the steps of topic generation, research, organizing and citing their research. MindTap’s Outline Builder tool folds this entire process together, resulting in a complete outline of their speech, including note cards. Each Prepare activity has been updated to reflect chapter concepts and instructors may customize the Outline Builder tool to precisely emphasize their chapter and course needs.
New "Practice" activities either provide an ethical prompt to which students record an impromptu video response or ask students to practice their formal informative, persuasive, or special occasion speech. These updated impromptu Practice activities emphasize chapter concepts and promote civic engagement.
New "Present" activities provide students with a prompt requesting them to video record their speech demonstrating their knowledge of chapter concepts, to share with their peers and instructor. These new Present activities are coupled with the existing Present activities in which students present their formal and final speeches in front of their class for real-time feedback. Pre-built rubrics auto-sum student work for easy instructor grading.
New “Additional Resources” folder includes downloadable/editable documents for Building Community in Your Class, two Communication Self-Awareness surveys (the personal Report of Public Speaking Anxiety and the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension), the Speech Confidence Series (a microlearning one-minute video speech training tool accompanied by auto-graded quiz questions),and 21 essential readings and 12 videos on the fundamentals of Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing.

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Part I: FOUNDATIONS.
1. Public Speaking: Let's Start Speaking Now.
2. Building Speaker Confidence.
3. Listening: What Speakers and Listeners Should Know.
4. Public Speaking: Make Ethics and Technology Work for You.
Part II: PREPARING AND PRESENTING.
5. Analyzing Your Audience and Selecting a Really Great Topic.
6. Researching, Organizing, and Outlining Your Topic.
7. Interesting Visual and Verbal Supporting Materials.
8. Effective Delivery.
Part III: THREE TYPES OF SPEECHES.
9. Informative Speaking.
10. Persuasive Speaking.
11. Special Occasion Speaking.
12. Team Presentations.

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