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Effective Communication Now: An Updated Approach to Public Speaking

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Amy Gentile, Amy Gentile, Amy Gentile
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Copyright
2025
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Sick of tired textbooks that prepare you for public speaking twenty years ago? The game has changed in the landscape of effective communication and in what it takes to leave people wanting to know you, work with you, find out more about you. Speaking effectively in both live and virtual contexts has never been a more crucial or dynamic skill.

This user-friendly text empowers you to present the best version of yourself in the contexts of the modern world where communication lights up more complex neural pathways in our brains. The energy coursing through you when you have the attention of a group of people is a source of power and not anxiety. Learn strategies that help you come prepared, organize and practice what you want to say, and think in empowering ways about the speaking challenge itself. Let this text inspire you to be calm, cool, and clear-headed and to maintain confidence in the high-pressure situations that we encounter in the here and now.

 

INTRODUCTION
Communication and the Spiral of Change 
Overview of Speech Contexts

SPEECH CONTEXTS

CHAPTER 1: Introducing Yourself
Learning Purpose
Concepts to Consider 
Warm-up Activity
Model for Critique 
Speaking Challenges: Speeches of Introduction

CHAPTER 2: Presenting a Script
Learning Purpose 
Concepts to Consider 
Warm-up Activities
Model for Critique
Speaking Challenge: The Manuscript Speech 

CHAPTER 3: Celebrating 
Learning Purpose 
Concepts to Consider
Warm-up Activity
Model for Critique
Speaking Challenge: Speeches of Celebration

CHAPTER 4: Inspiring the Audience
Learning Purpose
Concepts to Consider 
Warm-up Activity
Model for Critique 
Speaking Challenge: The Inspirational Speech

CHAPTER 5: Raising Awareness
Learning Purpose
Concepts to Consider
Warm-up Activity 
Model for Critique
Speaking Challenge: Speeches that Raise Awareness 

CHAPTER 6: Storytelling
Learning Purpose 
Concepts to Consider 
Warm-up Activity 
Model for Critique
Speaking Challenge: A Celebration of Storytelling

CHAPTER 7: Demonstrating or Instructing 
Learning Purpose
Concepts to Consider 
Warm-up Activity
Model for Critique
Speaking Challenge: Speeches that Demonstrate or Instruct

CHAPTER 8: Interviewing
Learning Purpose 
Concepts to Consider
Warm-up Activity
Model for Critique
Speaking Challenge: Interviewing 

CHAPTER 9: The TEDtalk 
Learning Purpose 
Concepts to Consider
Warm-up Activity
Model for Critique 
Speaking Challenge: Speeches that Raise Awareness

CHAPTER 10: Celebrating Relationships
Learning Purpose 
Concepts to Consider
Warm-up Activity
Model for Critique
Speaking Challenge: Celebrate Relationships

CHAPTER 11: Reviving Ethical Persuasion 
Learning Purpose
Concepts to Consider
Warm-up Activity
Model for Critique
Speaking Challenge: Persuading

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
Effective Listening Rubric 
Presentation Rubric 

LINKS TO MODEL SPEECHES 

CRITIQUE: Considering Choices and Effects

GROWTH TRACKER AND SKILL HILL 

INDEX OF TERMS AND SKILLS

 

Amy Gentile

Amy Gentile teaches Public Speaking and English at both the high school and college levels. She has completed several collections of poetry and also writes fiction, essays, and collegiate texts. She holds a Bachelor of Science in English and a Master of Arts in English Education from the University of Connecticut, and she recently earned a Master of Science in Curriculum and Instruction. Her social and sports commentaries have aired on WSHU and National Public Radio, and her poetry has appeared in Otoliths, Paper Nautilus, Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal, Letters to Lovers Zine, and other print and online journals. Effective Communication Now: An Updated Approach to Public Speaking is her first professionally published textbook.

Amy Gentile

Amy Gentile teaches Public Speaking and English at both the high school and college levels. She has completed several collections of poetry and also writes fiction, essays, and collegiate texts. She holds a Bachelor of Science in English and a Master of Arts in English Education from the University of Connecticut, and she recently earned a Master of Science in Curriculum and Instruction. Her social and sports commentaries have aired on WSHU and National Public Radio, and her poetry has appeared in Otoliths, Paper Nautilus, Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal, Letters to Lovers Zine, and other print and online journals. Effective Communication Now: An Updated Approach to Public Speaking is her first professionally published textbook.

Amy Gentile

Amy Gentile teaches Public Speaking and English at both the high school and college levels. She has completed several collections of poetry and also writes fiction, essays, and collegiate texts. She holds a Bachelor of Science in English and a Master of Arts in English Education from the University of Connecticut, and she recently earned a Master of Science in Curriculum and Instruction. Her social and sports commentaries have aired on WSHU and National Public Radio, and her poetry has appeared in Otoliths, Paper Nautilus, Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal, Letters to Lovers Zine, and other print and online journals. Effective Communication Now: An Updated Approach to Public Speaking is her first professionally published textbook.

Sick of tired textbooks that prepare you for public speaking twenty years ago? The game has changed in the landscape of effective communication and in what it takes to leave people wanting to know you, work with you, find out more about you. Speaking effectively in both live and virtual contexts has never been a more crucial or dynamic skill.

This user-friendly text empowers you to present the best version of yourself in the contexts of the modern world where communication lights up more complex neural pathways in our brains. The energy coursing through you when you have the attention of a group of people is a source of power and not anxiety. Learn strategies that help you come prepared, organize and practice what you want to say, and think in empowering ways about the speaking challenge itself. Let this text inspire you to be calm, cool, and clear-headed and to maintain confidence in the high-pressure situations that we encounter in the here and now.

 

INTRODUCTION
Communication and the Spiral of Change 
Overview of Speech Contexts

SPEECH CONTEXTS

CHAPTER 1: Introducing Yourself
Learning Purpose
Concepts to Consider 
Warm-up Activity
Model for Critique 
Speaking Challenges: Speeches of Introduction

CHAPTER 2: Presenting a Script
Learning Purpose 
Concepts to Consider 
Warm-up Activities
Model for Critique
Speaking Challenge: The Manuscript Speech 

CHAPTER 3: Celebrating 
Learning Purpose 
Concepts to Consider
Warm-up Activity
Model for Critique
Speaking Challenge: Speeches of Celebration

CHAPTER 4: Inspiring the Audience
Learning Purpose
Concepts to Consider 
Warm-up Activity
Model for Critique 
Speaking Challenge: The Inspirational Speech

CHAPTER 5: Raising Awareness
Learning Purpose
Concepts to Consider
Warm-up Activity 
Model for Critique
Speaking Challenge: Speeches that Raise Awareness 

CHAPTER 6: Storytelling
Learning Purpose 
Concepts to Consider 
Warm-up Activity 
Model for Critique
Speaking Challenge: A Celebration of Storytelling

CHAPTER 7: Demonstrating or Instructing 
Learning Purpose
Concepts to Consider 
Warm-up Activity
Model for Critique
Speaking Challenge: Speeches that Demonstrate or Instruct

CHAPTER 8: Interviewing
Learning Purpose 
Concepts to Consider
Warm-up Activity
Model for Critique
Speaking Challenge: Interviewing 

CHAPTER 9: The TEDtalk 
Learning Purpose 
Concepts to Consider
Warm-up Activity
Model for Critique 
Speaking Challenge: Speeches that Raise Awareness

CHAPTER 10: Celebrating Relationships
Learning Purpose 
Concepts to Consider
Warm-up Activity
Model for Critique
Speaking Challenge: Celebrate Relationships

CHAPTER 11: Reviving Ethical Persuasion 
Learning Purpose
Concepts to Consider
Warm-up Activity
Model for Critique
Speaking Challenge: Persuading

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
Effective Listening Rubric 
Presentation Rubric 

LINKS TO MODEL SPEECHES 

CRITIQUE: Considering Choices and Effects

GROWTH TRACKER AND SKILL HILL 

INDEX OF TERMS AND SKILLS

 

Amy Gentile

Amy Gentile teaches Public Speaking and English at both the high school and college levels. She has completed several collections of poetry and also writes fiction, essays, and collegiate texts. She holds a Bachelor of Science in English and a Master of Arts in English Education from the University of Connecticut, and she recently earned a Master of Science in Curriculum and Instruction. Her social and sports commentaries have aired on WSHU and National Public Radio, and her poetry has appeared in Otoliths, Paper Nautilus, Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal, Letters to Lovers Zine, and other print and online journals. Effective Communication Now: An Updated Approach to Public Speaking is her first professionally published textbook.

Amy Gentile

Amy Gentile teaches Public Speaking and English at both the high school and college levels. She has completed several collections of poetry and also writes fiction, essays, and collegiate texts. She holds a Bachelor of Science in English and a Master of Arts in English Education from the University of Connecticut, and she recently earned a Master of Science in Curriculum and Instruction. Her social and sports commentaries have aired on WSHU and National Public Radio, and her poetry has appeared in Otoliths, Paper Nautilus, Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal, Letters to Lovers Zine, and other print and online journals. Effective Communication Now: An Updated Approach to Public Speaking is her first professionally published textbook.

Amy Gentile

Amy Gentile teaches Public Speaking and English at both the high school and college levels. She has completed several collections of poetry and also writes fiction, essays, and collegiate texts. She holds a Bachelor of Science in English and a Master of Arts in English Education from the University of Connecticut, and she recently earned a Master of Science in Curriculum and Instruction. Her social and sports commentaries have aired on WSHU and National Public Radio, and her poetry has appeared in Otoliths, Paper Nautilus, Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal, Letters to Lovers Zine, and other print and online journals. Effective Communication Now: An Updated Approach to Public Speaking is her first professionally published textbook.

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Title: Effective Communication Now: An Updated Approach to Public Speaking