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Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking

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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.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Jason Wrench, Anne Goding, Danette Johnson, Bernardo Attias

Business Communication Skills for Managers

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n Business Communication Skills for Managers, students learn how to communicate effectively in business, with an emphasis on the use of these skills managing teams and organizations. The course introduces important elements of successful communication, providing examples of effective communication and providing students opportunities to practice the same. The course covers the essentials of communication including professional writing, visual aids, presentations, speeches, phone and online communication, and both getting hired and finding new hires.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Lumen Learning

Public Relations v. 1.0

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Our purpose in this volume is to introduce you to the concepts of strategic public relations. Our basic assumption is that you have some general knowledge of management and business terminology; we will help you to apply that to the discipline of public relations. Our text is based in current research and scholarly knowledge of the public relations discipline as well as years of experience in professional public relations practice.

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Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies

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Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies overviews the time-tested conceptual foundations of the field, while incorporating the latest research and cutting-edge applications of these basics. Each chapter will include timely, concrete, and real-life examples of communication concepts in action. A key feature of this book is the integration of content regarding diversity and organizational communication in each chapter through examples and/or discrete sub-sections. Discussions of diversity are not relegated to feature boxes. Also integrated into the content are examples that are inclusive in terms of race, gender, sexuality, ability, age, marital status, religion, and other diverse identity characteristics.

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Data Science in a Box

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Data Science in a Box is a fully developed curriculum for an introductory data science course in the R programming language. The curriculum contains high-quality instructional videos, slides, and activities developed by leaders in the Data Science community. The curriculum incorporates readings from two OER texts: R for Data Science and Introduction to Modern Statistics. In addition to providing instructional resources for students, the curriculum also provides guidance for faculty on implementation, pacing, and assessment of student learning. The curriculum has excellent accessibility and adaptability. It is freely available via a GitHub repository which enables all materials (slides, assignments, assessments) to be downloaded and edited. The curriculum is well organized. The videos are well developed, contain accompanying slides, and present clear and engaging examples that foster understanding and fluency with R. The online texts are well written, well organized, modular, and contain useful examples and exercises for students. The texts complement the activities well and strengthen student understanding of data science and statistics in meaningful ways.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Data Set, Full Course, Homework/Assignment

Author: Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel.

Python for Everybody

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The goal of this book is to provide an Informatics-oriented introduction to programming. The primary difference between a computer science approach and the Informatics approach taken in this book is a greater focus on using Python to solve data analysis problems common in the world of Informatics.

Material Type: Full Course, Homework/Assignment, Textbook

Author: Charles R. Severance

Social Research Methods – Professor McKee’s Things and Stuff

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This book is intended for lower-division social science students in their first research methods course. It may also be used as a gentle refresher for more advanced students as a desk reference for basic concepts. This book is designed to introduce the student to the highly interrelated skills of research and writing in the social sciences. It is intended to provide a solid foundation in research in a less intimidating way than more traditional texts on the subject. In our effort to accomplish this, we have broken many of our own rules on good writing. To create a high degree of comfort in the reader, we have adopted a very informal style. We use the first person, and we address you, the reader, directly. Nevertheless, we think that this is appropriate because this isn’t a scientific paper, it’s a book about science. The design of this text is different from most research texts in that it divides the field into thirty discrete modules rather than the traditional longer chapters. There are several reasons for this. The first is that the student more easily digests discrete topics. Another important reason is that it allows the professor to prioritize, selecting the most important information for inclusion in a course when time inevitably runs short. It also provides convenient breakpoints to conduct classroom exercises, such as demonstrating how to use important electronic databases.

Material Type: Textbook

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