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In a world that is bombarded by information, the skills set of public speaking is more important today than ever. According to an address given by Tony Karrer at the TechKnowledge 2009, the New York Times has more information in one week than individuals in the 1800s would encounter in a lifetime. Currently, the amount of information available to people doubles every 18 months and is expected to double weekly by 2015. In a world filled with so much information, knowing how to effectively organize and present one’s ideas through oral communication is paramount.

From audience analysis to giving a presentation, Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking will guide students through the speech making process. The authors focus on the process of speech making because they have created this book to be a user-friendly guide to creating, researching, and presenting public speeches. While both classic and current academic research in public speaking guide this book, the authors believe that a new textbook in public speaking should first, and foremost, be a practical book that helps students prepare and deliver a variety of different types of speeches — and that is the primary goal of this book.

With practicality in mind, the authors developed, Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking, as a streamlined public speaking textbook. Many public speaking textbooks today contain over twenty different chapters, which is often impossible to cover in a ten-week quarter or a sixteen-week semester; this textbook is eighteen unique chapters. The fifteen chapters are divided into four clear units of information: introduction to public speaking, speech preparation, speech creation, and speech presentation.

In addition to practicality, this text has a focus on the ethics of public speaking from both a source’s and a receiver’s point of view. In 2006 Pearson, Child, Mattern, and Kahl examined the state of ethics in public speaking textbooks. Specifically, the researchers used the NCA Credo on Ethical Communication to guide their study of ethics in public speaking textbooks. Ultimately, the researchers focused on eight specific categories of public speaking ethics content areas: freedom of speech, honesty, plagiarism, ethical listening, ethical research, hate words, diversity, and codes of ethics. As a whole, the top ten public speaking books varied in their degrees of exposure to the various ethical issues. The authors believe that using the NCA Credo on Ethical Communication as the basis for discussing ethics within this book in addition to the latest research in ethics and communication will help students see how ethics can be applied to the public speaking context. All three of the coauthors on this text have conducted research on the topic of communication ethics and written about how ethics is important in every facet of students’ communicative lives.

Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking, is intended for the one-semester Public Speaking course. Check it out for yourself and see if its combination of practicality and ethics, and public speaking topics and skills that will suit the needs of your course and students.

This book allows a reader with a background in computing to quickly learn about the principles of human language and computational methods for processing it.  The book discusses what natural language processing (NLP) is, where it is useful, and how it can be deployed using modern software tools. It covers the core topics of modern NLP, including an overview of the syntax and semantics of English, benchmark tasks for computational language modelling, and higher level tasks and applications that analyze or generate language. It takes the perspective of a computer scientist. The primary themes are abstraction, data, algorithms, applications and impacts. It also includes history and trends that are important for understanding why things have been done the way that they have.

People and Music: An Appreciation and History serves as an introduction to the history of Western art music from the Middle Ages through today: trends, innovations, people, and worthwhile music examples. It also includes samples of music from around the world and popular music and discusses how they have impacted Western art music. While it would be beyond the scope of this text to include every outstanding composer and music example throughout history, the author hopes students are inspired to further explore eras, styles, and musicians they find particularly interesting.

This book is an overview of the core topics of memory and cognition. It is organized into ten chapters. The first four chapters explore the brain, mental imagery, and representation. Chapters 5-7 address the different functions of memory. Chapters 8-10 discuss judgment and decision-making. Throughout the book, topics are accompanied by experimental evidence, diagrams, hypothetical scenarios, and questions directly addressed to the reader. 

In a society that is increasingly, beautifully diverse, educators need to ensure that data being collected about student(s) keeps the students’ perspectives and needs at the forefront of behavioral interventions. Zbacnik and Gilpin’s Open Educational Resource strategically guides readers through each step in the functional behavioral assessment and interventions process and continues to center and consider how student identity impacts educational journey.

Student Success Through Collaboration: MTSS, RtI, and Special Education in Schools offers an effective guide for pre-service teachers and practicing educators seeking to build an inclusive system of academic, social-emotional, and behavioral support for their diverse student populations. This resource shares the practical strategies necessary to define Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), Response to Intervention (RtI), and Special Education services within the school environment. Learn how collaborative practices among general education teachers, special educators, school staff, and administrators can create a responsive learning environment that identifies student needs early, provides targeted interventions, and ensures equitable and inclusive access to high-quality instruction, resulting in student success.  

Ce cours universitaire de français seconde langue se concentre sur le système du français international. Le manuel se base sur des ressources authentiques qui abordent des thèmes divers issus du monde francophone, avec le but d’améliorer la précision de l’interprétation et de l’expression orale au niveau intermédiaire. Chaque chapitre intègre tous les modes de communication : interprétation, présentation, conversation, et culture. Les thèmes phonétiques comprennent les phonèmes, l’enchaînement, la liaison, les voyelles nasales, la lettre E , les voyelles moyennes, les semi-voyelles, etc. Le cours explore des régions telles que la Belgique, la Tunisie, la République démocratique du Congo et le Canada. Les sujets culturels survolent l’humour, le doublage, la danse, les bandes dessinées, et plus encore.

Lynn's Open Educational Resource provides knowledge and skills for professionals actively engaged in change making as a necessary way to fulfil their mission. This includes, but is not limited to, social workers, educators, policy makers, health professionals, and environmental scientists. This textbook is the result of Lynn's extensive experience both working and teaching in the field of macro community and organizational change.

This book is a hands-on guide to academic research with a critical, informed lens. It walks readers through how to choose the right sources based on their research needs. The research process is broken into manageable steps starting with identifying information needs, forming strong questions, and building effective search strategies. It also covers how to evaluate sources by recognizing bias, understanding author expertise, and judging relevance and trustworthiness. The last section focuses on using sources in academic writing, including how to read scholarly articles, follow citations, and stay organized.