Publisher's Synopsis
"The eleventh edition of Public Speaking: An Audience-Centered Approach is written to be the primary text in a course intended to help students become better public speakers. We are delighted that since the first edition of the book was published more than two decades ago, educators and students of public speaking have found our book a distinctively useful resource to enhance public-speaking skills. We've worked to make our latest edition a preeminent resource for helping students enhance their speaking skills by adding new features and retaining the most successful elements of previous editions."--.