Tabbed sections and modular handbook structure enable instructors to easily shape lectures and assignments and helps students use the text as a reference guide.

Speak Well's emphasis on communication, not performance, supported by meaningful examples that provide honest, conversational-based speech models, demonstrates that public speaking is an excellent medium for creating worthwhile public dialogue.

Speak Well's listener-centered approach acknowledges that effective public speaking skills are essential for living, working, and thinking in today's interconnected world. Speak Well enables students to prepare and deliver speeches in an authentic, conversational style that will engage their listeners.

Speak Well focuses on building student speaker confidence and shows readers how to use their adrenaline effectively.

Hands-on, step-by-step help with every stage of the research process, with an emphasis on source evaluation. Chapter 7, "Incorporate Research," recognizes that for today's students, one of the biggest challenges in doing research is in establishing the credibility of the sources they find.

Annotated student speech examples walk readers through different parts of the public speaking process step-by-step, demonstrating how one student applied chapter concepts and showing specific public-speaking skills in action.

Connect Public Speaking, McGraw-Hill's groundbreaking, interactive digital learning platform, allows students and instructors to access the fully integrated, media-rich eBook. As students read the book online, linked icons guide them to embedded media-rich, interactive features, including speech video clips, full student speech videos with pedagogy, pre-tests and chapter quizzes, key terms testing activities, outlining activities, and TED Talks video activities. Connect Public Speaking also features tools that enable student speech practice and facilitate student speech evaluations:

• Speech Capture. Connect's Speech Capture gives instructors the ability to evaluate speeches live, using a fully customizable rubric. Instructors can also upload speech videos on behalf of students, as well as create and manage peer review assignments. In addition, students can upload their own videos for self-review and/or peer review.
• Student speeches on Connect Public Speaking provide models of major speech genres. Sixteen full student speeches, a s well more than 30 techniques video clips, illustrate specific skills and concepts.
• Outline Tool,with enhanced user interface. The Outline Tool guides students systematically through the process of organizing and outlining their speeches. Instructors can customize parts of the outliner, and also turn it off if they don't want their students to use it.
• Topic Finder, as well as access to EasyBib and Survey Monkey online tools. The Topic Finder helps students select a topic for speech assignments. EasyBib is a Web-based tool that simplifies and automates the formatting of citations and bibliographies. Survey Monkey, also a Web-based tool, helps students create and manage audience-analysis questionnaires.

LearnSmart, McGraw-Hill's adaptive diagnostic study tool, helps students identify and direct their focus to the areas in which they need the most help. Accessible within Connect Public Speaking, LearnSmart adapts to individual students based on their responses, enables them to absorb and internalize key ideas faster and more effectively, and prepares them better than ever for quizzes and exams. By tracking student responses in LearnSmart, instructors can also use class time to hone in on subjects that students find most challenging.

McGraw-Hill SpeechPrep app. On-the-go students can create and organize note cards, as well as practice, record, time, and review speeches on their Apple- or Android-based smartphones or tablets using the mobile McGraw-Hill SpeechPrep app. To learn more or download the app, go to www.mhhe.com/speechprep/ or search "Speech Prep" in iTunes, the App Store, or the Android Market.