{"id":4,"date":"2022-11-25T15:05:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/speaking\/?p=4"},"modified":"2022-12-13T01:11:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T06:11:23","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"front-matter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/speaking\/front-matter\/introduction\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction","rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"raw":"<h1>Introduction<\/h1>\r\nWelcome to <em>Public Speaking for Today's Audiences<\/em>! 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).\r\n\r\nThis 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.\r\n\r\nThanks and acknowledgements need to be given to Barbara Tucker and Matthew LeHew of Dalton State College, editors of <a href=\"https:\/\/alg.manifoldapp.org\/projects\/exploring-public-speaking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Exploring Public Speaking<\/em><\/a> (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 <em>Public Speaking for Today's Audiences<\/em> was adapted from their OER textbook.","rendered":"<h1>Introduction<\/h1>\n<p>Welcome to <em>Public Speaking for Today&#8217;s Audiences<\/em>! 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).<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks and acknowledgements need to be given to Barbara Tucker and Matthew LeHew of Dalton State College, editors of <a href=\"https:\/\/alg.manifoldapp.org\/projects\/exploring-public-speaking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Exploring Public Speaking<\/em><\/a> (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 <em>Public Speaking for Today&#8217;s Audiences<\/em> was adapted from their OER textbook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1660,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"front-matter-type":[13],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-4","front-matter","type-front-matter","status-publish","hentry","front-matter-type-introduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/speaking\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/speaking\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/speaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/front-matter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/speaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/speaking\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/speaking\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/4\/revisions\/233"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/speaking\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/4\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/speaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"front-matter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/speaking\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter-type?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/speaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/speaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}