Stand Up, Speak Out is a practical book a public speaking that combines time-tested principles with real-life examples of Americans speaking in public, at their homes, schools, jobs, clubs, and at special events. We hope it will serve, not only as a textbook for a public-speaking course, but also as a life-long reference. Toward that end, we have included in this edition boxed-off lists of steps and important considerations in preparing a speech. A brief Prologue that show how public speaking is a part of everyone's life: (1) Preparing for the event; (2) Includes an eight-step process for doing research; (3) Explores three categories of speeches; (4) Explores the many and interesting ways of supporting the message verbally and visually; (5) Presents the basics of organizing the message with many lively; (6) Deals with starting and stopping your speech; (7) Explains the differences between oral and written styles in wording the speech; (8) Explains what the audience sees and hears when a speaker is delivering the massage; (9) Explores the problems a speaker faces when speaking in groups; (10) Presents a unique approach to the question; (11) Talks about those occasions that are almost certain to occur.