Cengage Advantage Series: Essentials of Public Speaking | 6th Edition

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. MindTap 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’s 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. "Observe" activities ask students to watch a speech from the Speech Video Library and answer auto-graded questions. "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’s Outline Builder tool. Frequent, low-stakes "Practice" activities ask students to provide an impromptu video response to an ethical question that emphasizes chapter concepts and promotes civic engagement. "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.