Public Speaking Basics provides a semester's worth of information and exercises to help college students master public speaking. There is an emphasis on creating good thesis sentences and on using effective forms of outlining. A sample speech is provided with each of the six different speaking assignments. Michael A. Griffin has taught college public speaking for 20 years and judged high school speaking contests for over 15 years. He has taught a variety of speaking and communication classes at the University of Guam since 1988. He is a member of the National Communication Association, the Western Speech Communication Association, Phi Delta Kappa, and the International Society for General Semantics.