Public Speaking: Connecting You and Your Audience - Softcover

Patricia Hayes Andrews

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039584603X ISBN 13: 9780395846032

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Div, 1998

Synopsis

Providing a comprehensive, balanced treatment of skill and theory, combined with a robust video supplement package, Public Speaking offers an accessible approach to communication. The text presents the process of constructing, researching, and delivering speeches as a means of building a bridge between speaker and audience.

About this title

About the Author:

<>James R. Andrews is Professor of Communication and Culture, Adjunct Professor of American Studies, and Adjunct Professor of Victorian Studies at Indiana University. For fifteen years (1977-1993), he served as chair of the department of Speech Communication. Before coming to Indiana, he taught at the University of California-Santa Barbara, and at Columbia University. He is a member of the Honors Faculty at Indiana University and has taught undergraduate courses in public speaking, political communication, rhetorical criticism, and public address, as well as graduate courses and special seminars in American and British public address, rhetorical criticism, and American Studies.

 

The author or co-author of seven books, Andrews's recent works include American Voices (1989: Longman Publishing Group), The Practice of Rhetorical Criticism (1990: Prentice Hall), and Contemporary American Voices (1992). Reading Rhetorical Texts, co-authored with Michael C. Leff and Robert Terrill, was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1998.

 

In 1997, Indiana University presented him with the all-university Sylvia E. Bowman Award for Distinguished Teaching, and the National Communication Association honored him with the Donald Ecroyd Award for Distinguished Teaching in Higher Education. He received an Indiana University Teaching Excellence Recognition Award in 1999.

 

Andrews's research interests focus on the historical-critical investigation of British and American public discourse. He is the author of numerous critical studies that have appeared in such scholarly journals as Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication Monographs, Communication Education, Western Journal of Communication, Communication Quarterly, and Communication Studies, and he has published several essays in volumes of collected studies. He received the Winans-Wichelns Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address and twice won the American Forensic Association's Award for Outstanding Research. In 1993, he received the Speech Communication Association's Douglas Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award. He was elected an NCA Distinguished Scholar in 2000.

 

A past editor of Communication Studies, Andrews also has served on the editorial boards of the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication Monographs, and Communication Studies. He is an active member of the Central States Communication Association and the National Communication Association and, most recently, served as a member of the NCA's Publications Board.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Div
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 039584603X
• ISBN 13: 9780395846032
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448