The eleventh edition of The Art of Public Speaking builds on its predecessors with expanded coverage in key areas that students find most challenging－ plunging into the first speech, avoiding fallacies, using supporting materials properly, citing sources orally, developing and presenting visual aids, and taking public speaking from classroom to career.
These content revisions are combined with a thorough revision of Connect Public Speaking, the path breaking online learning platform for The Art of Public Speaking at www.mcgraw-hillconnect.com. The book, Connect, and the other resources available with The Art of Public Speaking are all designed to work hand in hand. They provide an integrated teaching and learning system that is without parallel among public speaking textbooks.
．Helping students make the leap from principles to performance
．Helping students apply principles discussed in the text to the creation of their own speeches
．Helping novices gain practice time and become effective public speakers
台灣是農業之國也是商業之國，這種農業不全是我們一般印象的稻作園藝。一八八六年英國博物學家Francis Henry Hill Guillemard搭乘侯爵夫人號（Marchesa）航海馬來亞、中國、阿留申、日本、琉球、台灣、新幾內亞等地，用了一張台灣地圖標示航經台灣的路線；這張圖原是台灣的產物圖，從北到南標示有各種外銷農作物。台灣在十七世紀的荷蘭時代起就是代工和重商的性格，這第一波工商時代到了十九世紀，因為米糖為主的傳統資源已經用盡，而西方人東來台灣海峽兩岸的商業因為中國大陸市場被壓抑，也一蹶不振。但是，十九世紀也是工業革命後全球化時代，台灣因為被歐洲人強迫開港而納入世界經濟體系，轉向開展一種新的工商時代，直到最近幾年才又沒落。在十八世紀開始大量移入本島的漢民族，現在必須面對資源不足而人口眾多的困境。台灣宿命的週期性興衰，這時以及未來的好多年中，我想過度勞動的山、海、平原和人民，能夠暫時休息生養，當不能說是蠢事。
