Combining the expertise of two successful Houghton Mifflin authors, this new handbook offers students a practical, "how-to" approach to speaking throughout their academic and professional careers. This resource offers students clear and accessible information on organizing, developing, and presenting a speech across the disciplines, along with quick references on grammar and mechanics. In addition, the authors clearly distinguish the principles of oral and written communication. The text's convenient handbook size and format, along with its indispensable, timeless content, make it an ideal lifelong resource. Public speaking coverage addresses ethics, listening, communication apprehension, and strategies for speaking in a variety of contexts. Grammar sections cover clarity and written style, sentence basics, punctuation, mechanics, and multilingual/ESL strategies.