Introduction

Welcome to Public Speaking for Today’s Audiences! This book was written for CMNS 1125: Public Speaking at Douglas College, but could also be a valuable textbook for many other undergraduate professional writing courses (and CMNS 1125 transfers as equivalent to many other post-secondary institutions, especially in British Columbia).

This book is available free of charge to any who wish it. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Thanks and acknowledgements need to be given to Barbara Tucker and Matthew LeHew of Dalton State College, editors of Exploring Public Speaking (4th ed.), which is also licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Credit should also be given to their contributors: Amy Burger, Chad Daniel, Jerry Drye, Cathy Hunsicker, and Amy Mendes. Much of Public Speaking for Today’s Audiences was adapted from their OER textbook.