This textbook offers an innovative approach to public speaking by employing the rhetorical canon as a means of constructing artful speech in a multi-mediated environment. By stressing how contemporary public speaking continues the classical art of persuasion, this book provides a foundation to guide students in constructing and delivering messages that address matters of concern and interest to their audience. This edition features contemporary as well as historical examples to highlight key concepts and show how rhetoric works in practice. It not only emphasizes the traditional skills of face-to-face oratory, but it also includes a chapter solely dedicated to highlighting the techniques and tactics of digital social influencing that adapts public speaking to online platforms. Each chapter includes speech excerpts, summaries, and exercises for review and retention. This textbook for courses in public speaking and rhetoric will particularly appeal to instructors wishing to foreground speaking as engaged citizens on public and political issues. Online resources include an instructor’s manual with discussion and test questions, video links, and sample materials.
Provides the student with both principles and applications. Includes sppeches of Cicero, Pitt, Lincoln, Churchill.
A Speaker’s Guidebook with The Essential Guide to Rhetoric includes a full tabbed section that provides brief yet comprehensive coverage of rhetorical theory — from the classical to the contemporary — and its practical applications.
Public Speaking: A Rhetorical Approach
... Montgomery College Michael Butterworth, College of Lake County Mina Casmir, Pepperdine University Rick Casper, ... State University of New York College–Cortland Rhonda Parker, University of San Francisco David Payne, University of ...
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A Rhetoric of Public Speaking
1. Belinda Luscombe, “The Myth of the Slippery Bachelor,” Time, February 14, 2011, 51–53. 2. You can find Lisa Kudrow's 2010 speech online at: http://commencement.vassar.edu/ceremony/archive/2010/ kudrow.html. 3.
A practical and up-to-date public speaking text based on rhetorical theory, with the theme of the role of choices and civic engagement/responsibility integrated throughout in narrative, features, and examples; features a description of the ...
This handbook integrates the principles of classical rhetoric with those of contemporary public speaking and provides examples of how to apply these principles to various speaking situations. ...
Advanced Public Speaking equips students with the information they need to develop into confident and capable public speakers. The book is an exemplary guide for advanced undergraduate and graduate-level courses in public speaking.