MindTap Speech for Verderber/Sellnow/Verderber's THE CHALLENGE OF EFFECTIVE SPEAKING IN A DIGITAL AGE, 17th Edition, is the digital learning solution that helps instructors engage and transform today's students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, real-time course analytics, and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn cookie-cutter into cutting-edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers. Engage your students in the speech-making process with MindTap! Easy-to-use and easy-to-customize, MindTap combines all learning materials students need to prepare, practice, and present—readings, multimedia, activities and assessments—into a singular Learning Path. “Practice & Present” provides students with tools to help reduce public speaking anxiety and receive timely, meaningful feedback on their presentations. Outline Builder instills confidence by carefully guiding students, step-by-step, through the speech writing and preparation process. Engaging, relevant activities and assignments in MindTap are designed to elevate oral communication skills for classroom and career success.