Contains sample activities including rap, pantomime, a game show, TV news and more. Cartoon illustrations throughout.

The new edition of Principles of Speech Communication, Twelfth Brief Edition is accompanied by The Speech Writer's Workshop, an interactive speech-writing software that will help you prepare your speeches. Available for both IBM and Macintosh systems, this program covers such topics as introductions and conclusions, defining the purpose of your speech, speech apprehension, preparing research and supporting material, and much more. Ask your professor for more details.

"The work of Bach and Harnish represents an able attempt by a philosopher and a linguist respectively to restore some sorely needed naturalistic assumptions to the study of linguistic communication."