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The Sixth Edition of Speaking Clearly guides readers through the challenging process of learning new speech behaviors as well as changing old ones. It will help readers achieve significant and lasting changes in voice and diction. Some of the valuable tools in the text include: Voice and diction drills in increasing order of difficulty; Ear training techniques; A pronunciation list of frequently mispronounced words; Theory and drills on all of the component sounds of American English; An appendix covering foreign accents; and Icons in the text refer to the relevant Speech Lab segments. Included with Speaking Clearly is the Speech Lab an integrated CD audio program that provides drill materials for diction, voice, and vocal expression. Not-for-sale instructor resource material available to college and university faculty only; contact publisher directly. Table of Contents I. INTRODUCTION TO SPEECH COMMUNICATION 1. Introduction 2. Dealing with Nervousness 3. The Speech Process 4. The Sounds of American English II: DICTION 5. Improving Diction: The Basics 6. The Consonants: Plosives 7. The Consonants: Fricatives 8. The Consonants: Nasals, Glides, Laterals, and Affricates 9. The Vowels and Diphthongs III: VOICE 10. Voice Production 11. Vocal Expressiveness Appendixes: Pronunciation Guide / Guide to Foreign Accents / Diagnostic Materials and Speech Checklists Glossary

Paperback: 393 pages Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education; 6th Ed edition (2004) Language: English ISBN-10: 0072397268 ISBN-13: 978-0072397260 Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.8 x 1.3 inches Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds

If you don’t know how to communicate properly, you are going to have problems in every relationship, whether personal or professional. Effective communication is like the engine oil that makes your life run smoothly. This book tells you how to communicate effectively and get what you want. It also reveals how NOT to communicate—an unfortunate word, bad formulation, inappropriate joke, forgotten name, huge misinterpretation, an awkward conversation or a strange tone in your voice are factors. Remember, there are very few areas in life where you can succeed in the long run without this crucial skill. What will you learn from this book? · What are the most common communication obstacles between people and how to avoid them · How to express anger and avoid conflicts · What are the most eight important questions you should ask yourself if you want to be an effective communicator · Five most basic and crucial conversational fixes · How to deal with difficult and toxic people · Phrases to purge from your dictionary (and what to substitute them with) · The refined art of giving and receiving feedback · Rapport—the art of excellent communication · How to use metaphors to communicate better and connect with people · What meta-programmes and meta-models are and how exactly to make use of them to become a polished communicator · How to read faces and how to effectively predict other people’s reaction · How to finally start remembering names · How to have a great public presentation · How to create your own unique personality in business (and everyday life) · Effective networking Start improving your life today.

Q: Skills for Success Third Edition builds on its question-centered approach to help students achieve academic success. 90% of teachers believe that Q: Skills for Success has played a significant part in improving the skills their students need for academic study. Q: Skills for Success is renowned for helping students to achieve academic success in English. The Third Edition helps students to develop the techniques and critical thinking skills they need for academic study with new Critical Thinking Strategies, updated texts and topics and 100% new assessment.

Sets forth techniques for improving interpersonal communication and features effective strategies for promoting conversation, handling criticism, resisting manipulation, and developing self-confidence

The Well Said series offers a lively communicative approach to building and improving pronunciation and speaking skills through strategies development and abundant confidence-building activities.

Get some good grammar practice-and start speaking and writingwell Good grammar is important, whether you want to advance yourcareer, boost your GPA, or increase your SAT or ACT score. Practiceis the key to improving your grammar skills, and that's what thisworkbook is all about. Honing speaking and writing skills throughcontinued practice translates into everyday situations, such aswriting papers, giving presentations, and communicating effectivelyin the workplace or classroom.In English Grammar Workbook For Dummies you'll findhundreds of fun problems to help build your grammar muscles. Justturn to a topic you need help with-from punctuation and pronouns topossessives and parallel structure-and get out your pencil. Withjust a little practice every day, you'll be speaking correctly,writing confidently, and getting the recognition you deserve atwork or at school.Hundreds of practice exercises and helpful explanationsExplanations mirror teaching methods and classroomprotocolsFocused, modular content presented in step-by-step lessonsEnglish Grammar Workbook For Dummies will empower you tostructure sentences correctly, make subject and verbs agree, anduse tricky punctuation marks such as commas, semicolons, andapostrophes without fear.

The ability to understand and be understood when communicating with professors and with native speakers is crucial to academic success. Academic Interactions focuses on actual academic speaking events, particularly classroom interactions and office hours, and gives students practice improving the ways that they communicate in a college/university setting. Academic Interactions addresses skills like using names and names of locations correctly on campus, giving directions, understanding instructors and their expectations, interacting during office hours, participating in class and in seminars, and delivering formal and informal presentations. In addition, advice is provided for communicating via email with professors and working in groups with native speakers (including negotiating tasks in groups). The text uses transcripts from MICASE (the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English) to ensure that students learn the vocabulary and communication strategies that will be most effective in their academic pursuits. Units also feature language use issues like ellipsis, hedging, and apologies.  The book is packaged with a DVD that provides models for successful academic interactions.

Get some good grammar practice -- and start speaking and writing well! Good grammar is important, whether you want to advance your career, boost your GPA, or increase your SAT or ACT score. Practice is the key to improving your grammar skills, and that's what this workbook is all about. Open it and you'll find hundreds of fun problems to help build your grammar muscles. Just turn to a topic you need help with -- from punctuation and pronouns to possessives and parallel structure -- and get out your pencil. With just a little practice every day, you'll be speaking correctly, writing confidently, and getting the recognition you deserve at work or at school. 100s of Problems! * Review grammar rules and exceptions * Build grammar skills, from sentence mechanics to stylistic fine points * Convey your ideas clearly and persuasively * Speak and write with flair and confidence

A comprehensive guide to improving communication with Spanish speaking patients, and their families, and English speaking medical personnel, Salud is an invaluable reference tool. It provides needed information to enable effective communication that will result in more thorough patient interviews, identification of existing conditions, and, ultimately, a more comfortable relationship between healthcare provider and patient.A quick, easy-to-use reference book, Salud is for medical students, nurses, doctors, hospital administrators, health care personnel, home health care workers, social workers, and translators in the health care profession. The medical dictionary and alphabetical phrase sections will make it easy to find and cross-reference the correct Spanish-English words and phrases. There are also focused care dialogues ranging from AIDS, anesthesia, and breast exam, to unconscious patient, urinary retention, and visiting hours. The materials in this book were adapted from a variety of English and Spanish language sources for the sole purpose of language enrichment and should not be construed as medical advice or instruction.

Jazz Chants introduce and reinforce the language structures and functions of everyday spoken English. They provide a way of improving students' speaking and listening skills. The Student Book contains the words of each chant, a useful introduction, and clear teaching notes.

Offers a communicative approach to building and improving pronunciation and speaking skills through strategies development and abundant confidence-building activities.

Understanding idiomatic expressions is vital for gaining fluency in a second language. Both English-speaking students of German and German-speaking students of English will find this dictionary invaluable for improving their conversational skill when speaking in their second language. They'll discover that the book also comes in handy as quick word finder when they read popular newspapers or magazines in the second language. Updated to keep pace with current idioms, this two-part phrasebook translates 2001 expressions from German to English and from English to German. All entries are illustrated with sample sentences. Two fast-reference word-finder indexes are also featured--one following the German section, and the other following the English section.

Designed for both the beginning learner and the more advanced language student, Dine Bizaad is the ideal tool for improving Navajo speaking, reading, and writing skills. Each chapter starts with practice dialogues and concludes with written exercises. Navajo-English and English-Navajo glossaries are available in the back of the textbook. Perfect for teaching yourself Navajo!

For Grades 5-6. A complete resource for students to become better writers and communicators. Extensive coverage of the writing process and a wide array of writing forms. Helpful guidance for improving reading, vocabulary and spelling, speaking and listening, thinking, and learning. Proofreader's Guide with grammar, mechanics and spelling, and a handy Student Almanac.