Author: Rudolph F. Verderber
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN: 9780538449908
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Take your students from the basics of communication to mastering speech preparation and delivery with this engaging, dynamic text. ESSENTIAL SPEECH introduces the various types of speeches as well as the keys for effective speech preparation and confident delivery. Relevant activities and examples of effective and ineffective communication make student learning easier. Students learn how strong speeches begin with thorough preparation. They develop into confident, competent communicators as they learn to research and use language and vocabulary effectively. Students learn useful delivery strategies as well as how to perfect their listening, observing, analyzing, and critiquing abilities. This book's inviting and open visual presentation, along with numerous examples drawn from today's world, keep the presentation meaningful and engaging for your students. Numerous hands-on activities also keep students actively involved in learning. Ongoing review and assessment ensure that students understand the concepts as they move ahead. Technology has had a huge influence on how we learn, how we work, and how we communicate today. The online Speech Builder Express tool solves the major challenges in this course: getting students organized and comfortable to make their presentations and relieving anxiety and stress caused by lack of planning and organization. Speech Builder Express coaches students through every step of the speech outlining process. By providing students with the necessary tutorials, sample videos, and access to a dictionary and thesaurus, this product will help build student confidence, lessen student anxiety, and prepare them for real-world career speaking opportunities. Discover all of the aspects of teaching speech that you told us were important to you from concepts and practice to technology support. This book's approach is based on extensive field research and input from teachers across the nation. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Essential Speech
Author: Rudolph F. Verderber
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN: 9780538449908
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Take your students from the basics of communication to mastering speech preparation and delivery with this engaging, dynamic text. ESSENTIAL SPEECH introduces the various types of speeches as well as the keys for effective speech preparation and confident delivery. Relevant activities and examples of effective and ineffective communication make student learning easier. Students learn how strong speeches begin with thorough preparation. They develop into confident, competent communicators as they learn to research and use language and vocabulary effectively. Students learn useful delivery strategies as well as how to perfect their listening, observing, analyzing, and critiquing abilities. This book's inviting and open visual presentation, along with numerous examples drawn from today's world, keep the presentation meaningful and engaging for your students. Numerous hands-on activities also keep students actively involved in learning. Ongoing review and assessment ensure that students understand the concepts as they move ahead. Technology has had a huge influence on how we learn, how we work, and how we communicate today. The online Speech Builder Express tool solves the major challenges in this course: getting students organized and comfortable to make their presentations and relieving anxiety and stress caused by lack of planning and organization. Speech Builder Express coaches students through every step of the speech outlining process. By providing students with the necessary tutorials, sample videos, and access to a dictionary and thesaurus, this product will help build student confidence, lessen student anxiety, and prepare them for real-world career speaking opportunities. Discover all of the aspects of teaching speech that you told us were important to you from concepts and practice to technology support. This book's approach is based on extensive field research and input from teachers across the nation. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN: 9780538449908
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Take your students from the basics of communication to mastering speech preparation and delivery with this engaging, dynamic text. ESSENTIAL SPEECH introduces the various types of speeches as well as the keys for effective speech preparation and confident delivery. Relevant activities and examples of effective and ineffective communication make student learning easier. Students learn how strong speeches begin with thorough preparation. They develop into confident, competent communicators as they learn to research and use language and vocabulary effectively. Students learn useful delivery strategies as well as how to perfect their listening, observing, analyzing, and critiquing abilities. This book's inviting and open visual presentation, along with numerous examples drawn from today's world, keep the presentation meaningful and engaging for your students. Numerous hands-on activities also keep students actively involved in learning. Ongoing review and assessment ensure that students understand the concepts as they move ahead. Technology has had a huge influence on how we learn, how we work, and how we communicate today. The online Speech Builder Express tool solves the major challenges in this course: getting students organized and comfortable to make their presentations and relieving anxiety and stress caused by lack of planning and organization. Speech Builder Express coaches students through every step of the speech outlining process. By providing students with the necessary tutorials, sample videos, and access to a dictionary and thesaurus, this product will help build student confidence, lessen student anxiety, and prepare them for real-world career speaking opportunities. Discover all of the aspects of teaching speech that you told us were important to you from concepts and practice to technology support. This book's approach is based on extensive field research and input from teachers across the nation. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Essential Speech and Language Technology for Dutch
Author: Peter Spyns
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642309100
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The book provides an overview of more than a decade of joint R&D efforts in the Low Countries on HLT for Dutch. It not only presents the state of the art of HLT for Dutch in the areas covered, but, even more importantly, a description of the resources (data and tools) for Dutch that have been created are now available for both academia and industry worldwide. The contributions cover many areas of human language technology (for Dutch): corpus collection (including IPR issues) and building (in particular one corpus aiming at a collection of 500M word tokens), lexicology, anaphora resolution, a semantic network, parsing technology, speech recognition, machine translation, text (summaries) generation, web mining, information extraction, and text to speech to name the most important ones. The book also shows how a medium-sized language community (spanning two territories) can create a digital language infrastructure (resources, tools, etc.) as a basis for subsequent R&D. At the same time, it bundles contributions of almost all the HLT research groups in Flanders and the Netherlands, hence offers a view of their recent research activities. Targeted readers are mainly researchers in human language technology, in particular those focusing on Dutch. It concerns researchers active in larger networks such as the CLARIN, META-NET, FLaReNet and participating in conferences such as ACL, EACL, NAACL, COLING, RANLP, CICling, LREC, CLIN and DIR ( both in the Low Countries), InterSpeech, ASRU, ICASSP, ISCA, EUSIPCO, CLEF, TREC, etc. In addition, some chapters are interesting for human language technology policy makers and even for science policy makers in general.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642309100
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The book provides an overview of more than a decade of joint R&D efforts in the Low Countries on HLT for Dutch. It not only presents the state of the art of HLT for Dutch in the areas covered, but, even more importantly, a description of the resources (data and tools) for Dutch that have been created are now available for both academia and industry worldwide. The contributions cover many areas of human language technology (for Dutch): corpus collection (including IPR issues) and building (in particular one corpus aiming at a collection of 500M word tokens), lexicology, anaphora resolution, a semantic network, parsing technology, speech recognition, machine translation, text (summaries) generation, web mining, information extraction, and text to speech to name the most important ones. The book also shows how a medium-sized language community (spanning two territories) can create a digital language infrastructure (resources, tools, etc.) as a basis for subsequent R&D. At the same time, it bundles contributions of almost all the HLT research groups in Flanders and the Netherlands, hence offers a view of their recent research activities. Targeted readers are mainly researchers in human language technology, in particular those focusing on Dutch. It concerns researchers active in larger networks such as the CLARIN, META-NET, FLaReNet and participating in conferences such as ACL, EACL, NAACL, COLING, RANLP, CICling, LREC, CLIN and DIR ( both in the Low Countries), InterSpeech, ASRU, ICASSP, ISCA, EUSIPCO, CLEF, TREC, etc. In addition, some chapters are interesting for human language technology policy makers and even for science policy makers in general.
Speech to Print
Author: Louisa Cook Moats
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781598570502
Category : Language arts (Elementary)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
With extensive updates and enhancements to every chapter, the new edition of "Speech to Print" fully prepares today's literacy educators to teach students with or without disabilities.
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781598570502
Category : Language arts (Elementary)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
With extensive updates and enhancements to every chapter, the new edition of "Speech to Print" fully prepares today's literacy educators to teach students with or without disabilities.
A Testament of Hope
Author: Martin Luther King
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780060646912
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
"We've got some difficult days ahead," civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., told a crowd gathered at Memphis's Clayborn Temple on April 3, 1968. "But it really doesn't matter to me now because I've been to the mountaintop. . . . And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land." These prohetic words, uttered the day before his assassination, challenged those he left behind to see that his "promised land" of racial equality became a reality; a reality to which King devoted the last twelve years of his life. These words and other are commemorated here in the only major one-volume collection of this seminal twentieth-century American prophet's writings, speeches, interviews, and autobiographical reflections. A Testament of Hope contains Martin Luther King, Jr.'s essential thoughts on nonviolence, social policy, integration, black nationalism, the ethics of love and hope, and more.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780060646912
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
"We've got some difficult days ahead," civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., told a crowd gathered at Memphis's Clayborn Temple on April 3, 1968. "But it really doesn't matter to me now because I've been to the mountaintop. . . . And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land." These prohetic words, uttered the day before his assassination, challenged those he left behind to see that his "promised land" of racial equality became a reality; a reality to which King devoted the last twelve years of his life. These words and other are commemorated here in the only major one-volume collection of this seminal twentieth-century American prophet's writings, speeches, interviews, and autobiographical reflections. A Testament of Hope contains Martin Luther King, Jr.'s essential thoughts on nonviolence, social policy, integration, black nationalism, the ethics of love and hope, and more.
Hate Speech
Author: Caitlin Ring Carlson
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262361299
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
An investigation of hate speech: legal approaches, current controversies, and suggestions for limiting its spread. Hate speech can happen anywhere--in Charlottesville, Virginia, where young men in khakis shouted, "Jews will not replace us"; in Myanmar, where the military used Facebook to target the Muslim Rohingya; in Capetown, South Africa, where a pastor called on ISIS to rid South Africa of the "homosexual curse." In person or online, people wield language to attack others for their race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or other aspects of identity. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series examines hate speech: what it is, and is not; its history; and efforts to address it.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262361299
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
An investigation of hate speech: legal approaches, current controversies, and suggestions for limiting its spread. Hate speech can happen anywhere--in Charlottesville, Virginia, where young men in khakis shouted, "Jews will not replace us"; in Myanmar, where the military used Facebook to target the Muslim Rohingya; in Capetown, South Africa, where a pastor called on ISIS to rid South Africa of the "homosexual curse." In person or online, people wield language to attack others for their race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or other aspects of identity. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series examines hate speech: what it is, and is not; its history; and efforts to address it.
Essential Physiology
Author: D.F. Horrobin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401023530
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Physiology is the study of the normal working of the body. It is essential that its principles should be understood by nurses and doctors, for only if you know how the body works normally can you understand what is happening during disease. This first chapter covers the whole of physiology in outline, so that as later you read the chapters devoted to giving details of the various systems, you will be able to see where each system fits into the scheme of things. THE CELL You can learn a great deal about physiology by considering the requirements of a simple, single-celled organism such as the amoeba. These requirements may be summarized as follows: 1. Supplies. All living organisms require a supply of energy if they are to survive. Plants can obtain their energy directly from the sun and by using very simple inorganic materials they can manu facture all the substances they need. But animals must obtain their energy from the complex materials which they take in as food. The energy is released by the process known as oxidation (burning), in which food is broken down and combined with oxygen to release all the energy which is required. Animals therefore obviously need a supply of food and a supply of oxygen. Since the animal body is largely made up of water, they need a supply of water as well. The amoeba finds it easy to obtain all these materials from the water which surrounds it.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401023530
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Physiology is the study of the normal working of the body. It is essential that its principles should be understood by nurses and doctors, for only if you know how the body works normally can you understand what is happening during disease. This first chapter covers the whole of physiology in outline, so that as later you read the chapters devoted to giving details of the various systems, you will be able to see where each system fits into the scheme of things. THE CELL You can learn a great deal about physiology by considering the requirements of a simple, single-celled organism such as the amoeba. These requirements may be summarized as follows: 1. Supplies. All living organisms require a supply of energy if they are to survive. Plants can obtain their energy directly from the sun and by using very simple inorganic materials they can manu facture all the substances they need. But animals must obtain their energy from the complex materials which they take in as food. The energy is released by the process known as oxidation (burning), in which food is broken down and combined with oxygen to release all the energy which is required. Animals therefore obviously need a supply of food and a supply of oxygen. Since the animal body is largely made up of water, they need a supply of water as well. The amoeba finds it easy to obtain all these materials from the water which surrounds it.
The Essential Guide to Telecommunications
Author: Annabel Z. Dodd
Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional
ISBN: 9780130649072
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Covering the latest trends and technology changes, this is the fully updated and revised bestselling guide to telecommunications for the nontechnical professional. Includes sections on convergence, globalization, speech recognition, and 3G cellular networks.
Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional
ISBN: 9780130649072
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Covering the latest trends and technology changes, this is the fully updated and revised bestselling guide to telecommunications for the nontechnical professional. Includes sections on convergence, globalization, speech recognition, and 3G cellular networks.
Speech-making and Presentation Made Easy
Author: Max Atkinson
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446408515
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Whether writing a best man's speech or putting together a presentation at work, Speech-making and Presentation Made Easy is an invaluable guide to becoming a successful speaker, with easy-to-use, practical advice on how to: - Keep audiences engaged - Prepare, plan and structure - Use visual aids - Inspire your listeners - Present at work - Make wedding and social speeches - Understand body language Max Atkinson's Lend Me Your Ears provided a sound and thorough manual to public speaking. Now, with Speech-making and Presentation Made Easy, everyone from any walk of life can pick up quick tips for fast-track speech-making.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446408515
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Whether writing a best man's speech or putting together a presentation at work, Speech-making and Presentation Made Easy is an invaluable guide to becoming a successful speaker, with easy-to-use, practical advice on how to: - Keep audiences engaged - Prepare, plan and structure - Use visual aids - Inspire your listeners - Present at work - Make wedding and social speeches - Understand body language Max Atkinson's Lend Me Your Ears provided a sound and thorough manual to public speaking. Now, with Speech-making and Presentation Made Easy, everyone from any walk of life can pick up quick tips for fast-track speech-making.
Wait, What?
Author: James E. Ryan
Publisher: HarperOne
ISBN: 9780062664570
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller “What, What? is a welcome—and joyful—reminder that true wisdom comes from asking the right questions. Should you read this book? Absolutely.” —Clayton Christensen, bestselling author of How Will You Measure Your Life? Based on the wildly popular commencement address, the art of asking (and answering) good questions by the Dean of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. Whether we’re in the boardroom or the classroom, we spend far too much time and energy looking for the right answer. But the truth is that questions are just as important as answers, often more so. If you ask the wrong question, for instance, you’re guaranteed to get the wrong answer. A good question, on the other hand, inspires a good answer and, in the process, invites deeper understanding and more meaningful connections between people. Asking a good question requires us to move beyond what we think we know about an issue or a person to explore the difficult and the unknown, the awkward, and even the unpleasant. In Wait, What?, Jim Ryan, dean of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, celebrates the art of asking—and answering—good questions. Five questions in particular: Wait, what?; I wonder…? Couldn’t we at least…?; How can I help?; and What truly matters? Using examples from politics, history, popular culture, and social movements, as well as his own personal life, Ryan demonstrates how these essential inquiries generate understanding, spark curiosity, initiate progress, fortify relationships, and draw our attention to the important things in life—from the Supreme Court to Fenway Park. By regularly asking these five essential questions, Ryan promises, we will be better able to answer life’s most important question: “And did you get what you wanted out of life, even so?” At once hilarious and illuminating, poignant and surprising, Wait, What? is an inspiring book of wisdom that will forever change the way you think about questions.
Publisher: HarperOne
ISBN: 9780062664570
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller “What, What? is a welcome—and joyful—reminder that true wisdom comes from asking the right questions. Should you read this book? Absolutely.” —Clayton Christensen, bestselling author of How Will You Measure Your Life? Based on the wildly popular commencement address, the art of asking (and answering) good questions by the Dean of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. Whether we’re in the boardroom or the classroom, we spend far too much time and energy looking for the right answer. But the truth is that questions are just as important as answers, often more so. If you ask the wrong question, for instance, you’re guaranteed to get the wrong answer. A good question, on the other hand, inspires a good answer and, in the process, invites deeper understanding and more meaningful connections between people. Asking a good question requires us to move beyond what we think we know about an issue or a person to explore the difficult and the unknown, the awkward, and even the unpleasant. In Wait, What?, Jim Ryan, dean of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, celebrates the art of asking—and answering—good questions. Five questions in particular: Wait, what?; I wonder…? Couldn’t we at least…?; How can I help?; and What truly matters? Using examples from politics, history, popular culture, and social movements, as well as his own personal life, Ryan demonstrates how these essential inquiries generate understanding, spark curiosity, initiate progress, fortify relationships, and draw our attention to the important things in life—from the Supreme Court to Fenway Park. By regularly asking these five essential questions, Ryan promises, we will be better able to answer life’s most important question: “And did you get what you wanted out of life, even so?” At once hilarious and illuminating, poignant and surprising, Wait, What? is an inspiring book of wisdom that will forever change the way you think about questions.
C. S. Lewis in America
Author: Mark A. Noll
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 1514007010
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
How has the work of C. S. Lewis transformed the American religious landscape? With fresh research and analysis, this volume by noted historian Mark A. Noll considers the surprising reception of Lewis among Roman Catholic, mainline Protestant, and evangelical readers to see how early readings of the Oxford don shaped his later influence.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 1514007010
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
How has the work of C. S. Lewis transformed the American religious landscape? With fresh research and analysis, this volume by noted historian Mark A. Noll considers the surprising reception of Lewis among Roman Catholic, mainline Protestant, and evangelical readers to see how early readings of the Oxford don shaped his later influence.