Public Speaking: Choices and Responsibility - Softcover

Keith, William; Lundberg, Christian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 130526164X ISBN 13: 9781305261648

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2016

Synopsis

PUBLIC SPEAKING: CHOICES AND RESPONSIBILITY, 2e delivers a practical, up-to-date resource that will sharpen your public-speaking skills and empower you to make the best choices for your speech audience and situation. Hands-on applications enable you to analyze what you learn and immediately put it into practice. The Second Edition includes new coverage of Monroe's Motivated Sequence, discussions of TED talks and PechaKucha, extended treatment of fallacies, and expanded emphasis on outlining. New Remix features apply the latest research in business and social science to public speaking skills. In addition, MindTap digital learning solution provides an array of tools and apps to help you maximize your course success. PUBLIC SPEAKING will help you master your skills -- and use them to make a difference in your career and your community.

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About the Author

William Keith is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he has supervised the public speaking course for more than a decade. He has taught public speaking for over 30 years at a variety of institutions, including the University of Pittsburgh, University of Louisville, Western Washington University and Oregon State University. In addition to teaching a range of graduate and undergraduate courses in rhetoric, argument and communication theory, he has written extensively about the history and significance of public speaking pedagogy in the U.S. context--especially its connection to democracy and civic education--for scholarly organizations as well as the Kettering Foundation and the World Bank.

Christian O. Lundberg is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and co-director of the University Program in Cultural Studies. He also teaches first-year seminar "Think, Speak, Argue," which focuses on debate and public speaking skills as pedagogical tools and critical components of democratic life. Dr. Lundberg's current research focuses on theories of the public as a social and discursive form as well as the animating principles for public discourses and identities. His textbooks relate to rhetoric, public speaking and public deliberation, while his book Lacan in Public: Psychoanalysis and the Science of Rhetoric (University of Alabama Press, 2012) works through the implications of Jacques Lacan's psychoanalysis for thinking the rhetorical character of publics as social formations and of the public discourses that circulate within them. In addition, Dr. Lundberg has written a number pieces that unpack forms of discourse constituting specific publics, with special attention to the intersection between publics and religious discourse in Islam and evangelical Christianity. He earned a B.A. from the University of Redlands, a Master of Divinity from Emory University and a Ph.D. in communication studies from Northwestern University.

Review

"The focus on the rhetorical audience is the largest help in this book toward helping students with appropriate topic selection and tailoring their word choice to the audience."

"I like that Chapter 1 focuses on community, ethics, and personal responsibility in public speaking. I think that many colleges include these ideas in their mission statements. This also gets at the reasons public speaking is such a powerful tool."

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 130526164X
• ISBN 13: 9781305261648
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 336