A textbook published in October by three Wabash professors and a former teacher at the College offers a new approach to public speaking that ties it directly to civic engagement and participation in democracy.<\/p>\n
Public Speaking and Democratic Participation: <\/i>Speech, Deliberation, and Analysis in the Civic Realm<\/i> was written by Wabash Professors of Rhetoric Jennifer Abbot and Todd McDorman, Assistant Professor of English Jill Lamberton, and Monmouth Professor David Timmerman, who taught at Wabash for more than a decade.<\/p>\n
The book was published by Oxford University Press, which describes it as “a unique introductory textbook that provides a comprehensive introduction to the basic skills involved in public speaking\u2014including reasoning, organization, outlining, anxiety management, style, delivery, and more\u2014through the lens of democratic participation. act of civic participation.<\/p>\n
“By integrating the theme of civic engagement throughout, Public Speaking and Democratic Participation<\/i> offers a direct and inspiring response to the alarming decline in civic participation in the U.S. and the climate of vindictiveness in our current political culture.”<\/p>\n
As reviewer and Penn State University Professor Lyn J. Freymiller put it:\u00a0 “The authors suggest that the endeavor of good speaking has a lot to do with being a responsible citizen in society.\u00a0The book returns to this idea throughout and appropriately ties concepts back to this notion of taking responsibility for our communication.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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