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Directory of Social Change Presentations
Book SynopsisSurveys have found that speaking in public is one of the worst human fears, even higher than fear of spiders, heights and even death! Making presentations and public speaking is an increasing part of working life. Whether it be speaking at a meeting or making a formal presentation to a potential funder, much can rest on the outcome of our efforts when we are on our feet. The book includes sections on timing, the audience, content, delivery techniques, using visual aids, dealing with nerves, question and answer sessions and tongue twisters. This book is for anyone from the novice who needs to cover all of the basics to the experienced speaker who needs a quick refresher in getting up and delivering a message.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc School Administrators Public Speaking Portfolio
Book SynopsisThis book contains 158 speeches for the professional educator on virtually every subject related to education, all ready to use as is or adapt to the occasion.Table of ContentsHow Administrators May Effectively Use This Book. Part I: Effective Model Speeches For All Occasions. Section 1. A Collection of Icebreakers for the School Administrator. Section 2. An Administrator's Guide to Introductions, Transitions, and Benedictions. Section 3. A Complete Collection of Opening and Closing Speeches. Section 4. Administrator's Speeches for Laymen. Section 5. Administrator's Speeches for Educators. Section 6. A Variety of Speeches that Inspire. Section 7. Dynamic Speeches for Retirements and Testimonials. Section 8. Dignified and Meaningful Eulogies and Testimonials. Section 9. Speeches for Special Event. Section 10. Lively holiday speeches for use throughout the school year. Part II: An Administrator's Blueprint for Preparing and Delivering a Speech. Section 11. A Step-By-Step Guide for Preparing and Delivering a Speech. Section 12. An administrator's Survival Guide for Avoiding the Pitfalls of Public Speaking. Appendix. The School Administrator's Locatomatic Index of Speech Topics and Occasions. Index.
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WW Norton & Co The Essentials of Persuasive Public Speaking
Book SynopsisA collection of short and insightful pointers on the power, potential, and practice of public speaking.Trade Review"An upbeat and easy-to-digest guide to public speaking." -- Library Journal"An essential and first-rate skills manual." -- Negotiator's Magazine
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WW Norton & Co The Performers Voice
Book SynopsisDesigned for people who use their voices every dayfrom singers and actors to lawyers and radio announcersThe Performer's Voice offers a complete guide to effective and healthy vocal production.
£24.70
University of California Press Ella Bakers Catalytic Leadership A Primer on
Book SynopsisElla Baker (19031986) was an influential African American civil rights and human rights activist. For five decades, she worked behind the scenes with people in vulnerable communities to catalyze social justice leadership. Her steadfast belief in the power of ordinary people to create change continues to inspire social justice activists around the world.This book describes a case study that translates Ella Baker's community engagement philosophy into a catalytic leadership praxis, which others can adapt for their work. Catalytic leadership is a concrete set of communication practices for social justice leadership produced in equitable partnership with, instead of on, communities. The case centers the voices of African American teenage girls who were living in a segregated neighborhood of an affluent college town and became part of a small collective of college students, parents, university faculty, and community activists learning leadership in the spirit of Ella Baker.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Translating Ella Baker's Legacy of Social Justice Leadership into Everyday Praxis 2. "People Under the Heels of Oppression Should Be the Ones Leading": Entering into Community Partnerships 3. "Think in Radical Terms": Creating Participative Spaces for Social Justice Organizing 4. "Strong People Don't Need Strong Leaders": Engaging Social Justice Storytelling for Catalytic Leadership 5. Rewriting Ella Baker's Daybook: Integrating Self-Care and Activist Work Conclusion Appendix 1: Case Study Timeline Appendix 2: Curriculum Overview Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press Ella Bakers Catalytic Leadership A Primer on
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Translating Ella Baker's Legacy of Social Justice Leadership into Everyday Praxis 2. "People Under the Heels of Oppression Should Be the Ones Leading": Entering into Community Partnerships 3. "Think in Radical Terms": Creating Participative Spaces for Social Justice Organizing 4. "Strong People Don't Need Strong Leaders": Engaging Social Justice Storytelling for Catalytic Leadership 5. Rewriting Ella Baker's Daybook: Integrating Self-Care and Activist Work Conclusion Appendix 1: Case Study Timeline Appendix 2: Curriculum Overview Notes References Index
£22.50
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Writing the Gettysburg Address
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Southern Illinois University Press Shaping Information The Rhetoric of Visual
Book SynopsisIn this wide-ranging analysis, Charles Kostelnick and Michael Hassett demonstrate how visual language in professional communication - text design, data displays, illustrations - is shaped by conventional practices that are invented, codified, and modified by users in visual discourse communities.Trade Review“Charles Kostelnick and Michael Hassett have written a useful and informative book that explores the relation of textual conventions of all sorts to the visual display of information. . . . [Shaping Information] significantly enlarges how we think about conventions, and it will influence its readers to reconsider the arts of visual rhetoric.” — Stephen A. Bernhardt, Rhetoric Review “[Shaping Information] is a useful and important part of the discussion of visual communication. . . . This is a book worth reading and re-reading.” — Susan N. Smith, Information Design Journal Document Design“Shaping Information: The Rhetoric of Visual Conventions by Charles Kostelnick and Michael Hassett provide[s an] accessible and welcome [addition] to the previously slim selection of book-length studies exploring the processes by which designers shape-and readers or users interpret-visual communication. . . . Shaping Information [is a] fascinating [study] that promise[s] to enrich the teaching and study of visual communication now and in the future.” — Bege K. Bowers, Technical Communication Quarterly“Kostelnick and Hassett have written a sound and much needed book. Their framework for visual convention not only organizes unexplored territory in visual theory but also provides a theoretical system and structure of convention that can be used by theorists of writing. Their book makes a satisfying and thoroughly convincing case for the rhetorical basis of visual design.”—David Kaufer, Journal of Business and Technical Communication
£36.71
MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Averroes Middle Commentary on Aristotles Rhetoric
Book SynopsisThe first English-language translation of a crucial medieval Arabic commentary on Aristotle’s Rhetoric, with context on its contribution to intellectual history.Trade Review “This translation lends fresh insight into an essential period in the medieval Arabic translation movement by demonstrating how Averroes’ critical perspectives emerged from and contributed to a cross-pollination of nationalism, intellectualism, orthodoxy, and faith. Ultimately, Lahcen El Yazghi Ezzaher helps us to read both Averroes and the Rhetoric with added complexity, recognizing a tradition of Arabic commentary that is rooted in surprisingly diverse religious and philosophical traditions."—Tarez Samra Graban, coeditor of Global Rhetorical Traditions “Ezzaher's translation illuminates the complicated network that sustained Aristotle’s influence, the ways in which ancient texts maintain their vitality, and about the dynamic interaction between rhetoric and culture."—Lois Agnew, author of Thomas De Quincey: British Rhetoric’s Romantic TurnTable of Contents Introduction 1. Life and Works of Averroes 2. The Commentary Tradition on Greek Logical Works Before Averroes 3. Averroes’s Fascination with Aristotle’s Philosophy and Logic 4. Aristotle’s Rhetoric in the Arabic Commentary Tradition 5. Averroes on Aristotle’s Rhetoric: Organization 6. After Averroes: Averroes in the Latin and Hebrew Traditions 7. Concluding Remarks 8. Note on the Translation The Text: Averroes’s Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Rhetoric: Arabic-English Translation, with Notes and Introduction Bibliography Index
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University of Alabama Press Feminist Connections Rhetoric and Activism across
Book SynopsisContributors to this volume highlight continuities in feminist rhetorical practices that are often invisible to scholars, obscured by time, new media, and wildly different cultural, political, and social contexts. Thus, this collection takes a nonchronological approach to the study of feminist rhetoric, grouping chapters by rhetorical practice.Trade Review“This collection puts forward a groundbreaking methodology for exploring connections between feminist texts across time. Asking critics to momentarily suspend context, content, and media, the contributors foreground similarities between rhetorical strategies that emerged at different moments of feminist activism. This method enables critics to see the interstitial and intersectional relationships between and among feminist rhetorics of all eras, arguments, and media. This methodology enables critics to put into conversation Victorian novels with #LikeALadyDoc, Ida B. Wells with #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, Jane Addams with #EuEmpregadaDomÉstica, women telegraphers with women coders, and early birth control technology with HIV prevention drugs.” —Belinda A. Stillion Southard, author of How to Belong: Women’s Agency in a Transnational World “In their beautifully conceived and timely anthology, Feminist Connections, Katherine Fredlund, Kerri Hauman, and Jessica Ouellette manage what has seemed to be impossible. They have successfully disrupted feminist reception histories while seamlessly illuminating feminist social movement histories, feminist rhetorical strategies (both means and tools), and feminist technological epistemologies. Their collection, anchored in a method they refer to as Rhetorical Transversal Methodology (or RTM), prompts readers to face twenty-first-century questions of feminist rhetorical practices; historiographic relationships, intersections, and trajectories; and the constitution of digital work itself.” —Cheryl Glenn, University Distinguished Professor of English at Penn State University and author most recently of Rhetorical Feminism and This Thing Called HopeTable of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword: Writing against Reactionary Logics by Tarez Samra Graban Acknowledgments Introduction. Exposing Feminist Connections by Katherine Fredlund, Kerri Hauman, and Jessica Ouellette Part I. Revisionary Rhetorics by Kerri Hauman Chapter 1. Seneca Falls, Strategic Mythmaking, and a Feminist Politics of Relation by Jill Swiencicki, Maria Brandt, Barbara LeSavoy, and Deborah Uman Chapter 2. Epideictic Rhetoric and Emergent Media: From CAM to BLM by Tara Propper Chapter 3. Recruitment Tropes: Historicizing the Spaces and Bodies of Women Technical Workers by Risa Applegarth, Sarah Hallenbeck, and Chelsea Redeker Milbourne Chapter 4. Take Once Daily: Queer Theory, Biopolitics, and the Rhetoric of Personal Responsibility by Kellie Jean Sharp Part II. Circulatory Rhetorics by Jessica Ouellette Chapter 5. She's Everywhere, All the Time: How the #Dispatch Interviews Created a Sisterhood of Feminist Travelers by Kristin Winet Chapter 6. From Victorian Novels to #LikeALadyDoc: Women Physicians Strengthening Professional Ethos in the Public Sphere by Kristin E. Kondrlik Chapter 7. Feminist Rhetorical Strategies and Networked Activist Movements: #SayHerName as Circulatory Activist Discourse by Liz Lane Chapter 8. From US Progressive Era Speeches to Transnational Social Media Activism: Rhetorical Empathy in Jane Addams's Labor Rhetoric and Joyce Fernandes's #EuEmpregadaDomÉstica (I, Housemaid) by Lisa Blankenship Part III. Response Rhetorics by Katherine Fredlund Chapter 9. “Anonymous Was a Woman”: Anonymous Authorship as Rhetorical Strategy by Skye Roberson Chapter 10. Tracing the Conversation: Legitimizing Mormon Feminism by Tiffany Kinney Chapter 11. The Suffragist Movement and the Early Feminist Blogosphere: Feminism and Recent History of Rhetoric by Clancy Ratliff Chapter 12. Mikki Kendall, Ida B. Wells, and #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen: Women of Color Calling Out White Feminism in the Nineteenth Century and the Digital Age by Paige V. Banaji Chapter 13. The Persuasive Power of Individual Stories: The Rhetoric in Narrative Archives by Bethany Mannon Afterword. (Techno)Feminist Rhetorical Action: Coming Full Circle by Kristine L. Blair Bibliography List of Contributors Index
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The University of Alabama Press Corporal Rhetoric
Book SynopsisDrawing on feminist historiography and genre studies, Corporal Rhetoric explores the rhetoric of medical research, new technologies, and material practices that shifted the idea of childbirth as an act of God or Nature, to a medical procedure enacted by male physicians on the bodies of women made passive by both drugs and discourse.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Preconceptions Chapter 2. The Virtue of Efficiency Chapter 3. Physicians Who Are Qualified; Women Who Are Not Chapter 4. Margaret Sanger: The Performance of Polemic Chapter 5. The Tender Cover of the Law Chapter 6. The Children's Bureau: Into the Care of the State Chapter 7. Lillian Gilbreth: The Engineer of Motherhood Chapter 8. Consequences Notes Works Cited Index
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The University of Alabama Press The Child before the Court
Book SynopsisAnalyses landmark US Supreme Court cases involving children's free speech and due process rights and argues that our ideas about civic and legal judgment are deeply contested concepts instead of simple character traits.Trade Review“Are children true citizens under the Constitution? Timothy Barouch provides a detailed and subtle analysis drawing on clusters of cases to explore the principal models addressing child citizenship. Because children are ‘in between’ noncitizenship and full citizenship, Barouch deftly uses his analysis to develop important insights into the promise of an ‘inclusive citizenship.’ This book will be a critical resource for theorists of democracy, legal rhetoricians, and constitutional scholars.”- Francis J. Mootz III, author of Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and Critical Legal Theory;“Children make trouble for the law. Not by virtue of what they do, but by virtue of who they are. Law is challenged to recognize and acknowledge both their humanity and their distinctiveness. The Child before the Court offers an unusual and insightful analysis of those challenges. Its attention both to judicial opinions and public discourse make it a very valuable resource for interdisciplinary exploration. It is theoretically sophisticated, and it uses that sophistication to offer a compelling illumination of the ways law comprehends childhood.”- Austin Sarat, editor of Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular Culture and Knowing the Suffering of Others: Legal Perspectives on Pain and its Meanings;""The Child Before the Court: Citizenship and the Constitution demonstrates how judicial representations of the ‘child’ serve as a representative anecdote for understanding and negotiating the problem of ‘judgment’ in modern and late-modern US liberal-democratic public culture. The analysis of judicial discourse is both careful and deft, and the conclusions regarding the affordances of legal decision making and the crafting of judgment in public culture writ large are compelling. More than just a study of the rhetoric of legal discourse it is a model for how we might engage challenges to the legitimacy of liberal-democracy in contemporary times.”- John Louis Lucaites, coauthor of The Public Image: Photography and Civic Spectatorship
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The University of Alabama Press I the People
Book SynopsisExamines a variety of texts - ranging from speeches and campaign advertisements to news reports and political pamphlets - to outline the populist character of conservatism in the United States. Paul Elliott Johnson focuses on key inflection points in the development of populist conservatism.Trade Review“Paul Johnson’s I The People offers a theoretically rich lens for understanding the paradoxes of modern conservative rhetoric, drawing together rhetorical, psychoanalytic, and political theory. Johnson attends astutely to the interarticulation of toxic white masculinity and conservative populism in the United States, offering insights into both contemporary iterations of political culture and to their historical antecedents.”- Claire Sisco King, author of Washed in Blood: Male Sacrifice, Trauma, and the Cinema;“Anyone who wants to understand the rhetorical appeal of modern conservatism should read this book. I The People shows how conservative constructions of ‘the people’ frame democracy as a threat to individual freedom- even at the highest levels of government. Paul Johnson exhumes a new history of rhetorical appeals and communicative strategies to examine how conservative populisms articulate diversity and the common good as sources of individual trauma. An important and timely read.”- Elisabeth R. Anker, author of Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom
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The University of Alabama Press The Practice of Rhetoric
Book SynopsisPresents an account of rhetoric that presumes and incorporates theoretical approaches, offering a collection of principles assembled in the heat and trials of public practice. The essays are inspired by the capacious conception of rhetoric put forth by historian of rhetoric Jeffrey Walker, best known for stressing rhetoricâs educational mission.
£44.60
The University of Alabama Press Oligarchy in America
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The University of Alabama Press The Haunted West
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The University of Alabama Press Modern Occult Rhetoric
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University of Alabama Press Ancient Rhetorics and Digital Networks
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAncient Rhetorics and Digital Networks is a strong edited collection that makes a unique contribution to two different areas within the field of rhetoric that are merging quickly into a tight intersection."" - Jenny Rice, author of Distant Publics: Development Rhetoric and the Subject of Crisis
£30.56
The University of Alabama Press Suburban Dreams
Book SynopsisStarting with the premise that suburban films, residential neighbourhoods, chain restaurants, malls, and megachurches shape and materialize the everyday lives of residents and visitors, Greg Dickinson offers a rhetorically attuned critical analysis of contemporary American suburbs and the good life' their residents pursue.
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The University of Alabama Press Reframing Rhetorical History
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of essays that reassess history as rhetoric and rhetorical history as practice.
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The University of Alabama Press The Haunted West
Book SynopsisOffers a rich interpretation of the region's vexed history through a detailed study of the commemorative practices enactedand withheldat a landmark American museum.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Writing against Racial Injury
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University of Pittsburgh Press Tasteful Domesticity Womens Rhetoric and the American Cookbook 17901940 Composition Literacy and Culture
Book SynopsisTasteful Domesticity demonstrates how women marginalized by gender, race, ethnicity, and class used the cookbook as a rhetorical space in which to conduct public discussions of taste and domesticity.Trade ReviewWalden advances the scholarship on cookbooks and housekeeping advice manuals by examining them through the lens of ‘taste’ and rhetorical theory. She demonstrates how such texts functioned in contradictory and complex ways, revealing in new ways the truly intersectional nature of domestic ideology—how prescriptive norms around home, gender, race, class, nation, and ethnicity work together and through each other."" - Jessamyn Neuhaus, SUNY Plattsburgh""Tasteful Domesticity delivers on its promise to model how we can and should read cookbooks for political, philosophical, national, gendered, and racial rhetorics worked out in their pages. By untangling subtle differences in the word ‘taste’ and in authors’ access to it, Walden changes both food studies in the humanities and nineteenth century women’s history."" - Elizabeth Engelhardt, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Ethical Fantasy of Rhetorical Theory
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University of Pittsburgh Press Resounding the Rhetorical
Book SynopsisResounding the Rhetorical offers an original critical and theoretical examination of composition as a quasi-object. As composition flourishes in multiple media (digital, sonic, visual, etc.) Byron Hawk seeks to connect new materialism with current composition scholarship and critical theory.Trade ReviewResounding the Rhetorical adds the latest chapter in the lineage of the foremost critical theory in the field of rhetoric and composition. Hawk makes his most important and carefully researched contribution to the conversation about post-process theory. Along this lineage are swirling constellations of metaphors – ecology, dancing, networks, even parasites – and ultimately Hawk's case study of sound and music is used to illustrate how we can better conceive of composition and rhetoric."" - Todd Taylor, University of North Carolina""Hawk presents a new framework or theory of composition based on the quasi-object. By situating sound as a quasi-object, Hawk demonstrates what this framework might mean for six key terms in the field: composition, process, research, collaboration, publics, and rhetoric. This is an extraordinarily 'big idea' for the field."" - Michael Neal, Florida State University
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University of Pittsburgh Press Unruly Rhetorics
Book SynopsisEssays inquiring into conditions for activism, political protest, and public assembly.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Animal Who Writes The
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Library Story Hour from A to Z
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAlligators. Bubbles. Camping. Dinosaurs. Eggs. Frogs. Gingerbread. Home. Insects. Jam and Jelly. Kings and Knights. Love. Monsters. Nighttime. Outer Space. Pirates. Quilt. Rain Forest.
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John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd Gravitas
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Baylor University Press Words Well Spoken
Book SynopsisIt has been more than two decades since the publication of George Kennedy's influential New Testament Interpretation Through Rhetorical Criticism (1984). The essays in Words Well Spoken demonstrate the influence of Kennedy's work on New Testament studies.Table of Contents Abbreviations Acknowledgements 1. C. Clifton Black and Duane F. Watson Introduction 2. Margaret D. Zulick The Recollection of Rhetoric: A Brief History 3. Thomas H. Olbricht George Kennedy's Scholarship in the Context of North American Rhetorical Studies 4. Duane F. Watson The Influence of George Kennedy on Rhetorical Criticism of the New Testament 5. C. Clifton Black Kennedy and the Gospels: An Ambiguous Legacy, A Promising Bequest 6. Vernon K. Robbins Rhetography: A New Way of Seeing the Familiar Text 7. Blake Shipp George Kennedy's Influence on Rhetorical Interpretation of the Acts of the Apostles 8. Frank W. Hughes George Kennedy's Contribution to Rhetorical Criticism of the Pauline Letters 9. James D. Hester Kennedy and the Reading of Paul: The Energy of Communication 10. Greg Carey Moving an Audience: One Aspect of Pathos in the Book of Revelation 11. George A. Kennedy Afterword Curriculum Vitae: George Alexander Kennedy Bibliography List of Contributors Indexes
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Bad Sixties
Book SynopsisOngoing interest in the turmoil of the 1960s clearly demonstrates how these social conflicts continue to affect contemporary politics. In The Bad Sixties, Kristen Hoerl focuses on fictionalized portrayals of 1960s activism in popular television and film. She shows how Hollywood has perpetuated politics deploring the detrimental consequences of the 1960s on traditional American values.
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Baker Publishing Group An Essential Guide to Public Speaking: Serving
Book SynopsisCommunication expert and popular speaker Quentin Schultze offers a practical, accessible, and inspiring guide to public speaking, showing readers how to serve their audiences with faith, skill, and virtue. This thoroughly rewritten and expanded four-color edition has been tested and revised with input from Christian undergraduates and contains new chapters on timely topics, such as speaking for video, conducting group presentations, and engaging society civilly. A complete public speaking textbook for Christian universities, it includes helpful sidebars, tips, and appendixes. Additional resources for students and professors are available through Textbook eSources.Table of ContentsContents Foreword by Martin J. Medhurst Introduction 1. Speak to Serve 2. Plan Neighbor-Serving Speeches 3. Conquer Speaking Fears 4. Compose an Outline 5. Speak Extemporaneously 6. Anticipate Challenges and Opportunities 7. Think Biblically 8. Research the Topic and Audience 9. Find and Evaluate Online Sources 10. Be Trustworthy (Ethos 1) 11. Be Virtuous (Ethos 2) 12. Convey Ideas Passionately 13. Speak to Inform Dramatically 14. Tell Stories (Mythos) 15. Speak to Persuade Logically (Logos) 16. Speak to Persuade Emotionally (Pathos) 17. Share Special Moments 18. Advocate for All Neighbors by Amy King 19. Present in Groups by Heidi Petak 20. Stage with Technology 21. Speak through Video by Kathleen Sindorf Afterword by Clifford G. Christians Appendix A: Checklist for Preparing a Speech Appendix B: Plan Speeches with the Holy Spirit Appendix C: Form for Evaluating Speeches Appendix D: Speak from a Manuscript: Lessons from an Executive Speechwriter by Karl Payton
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Modern Language Association of America Nineteenth-Century American Activist Rhetorics
Book SynopsisIn the nineteenth century the United States was ablaze with activism and reform: people of all races, creeds, classes, and genders engaged with diverse intellectual, social, and civic issues. This cutting-edge, revelatory book focuses on rhetoric that is overtly political and oriented to social reform. It not only contributes to our historical understanding of the period by covering a wide array of contexts-from letters, preaching, and speeches to labor organizing, protests, journalism, and theater by white and black women, indigenous people, and Chinese immigrants-but also relates conflicts over imperialism, colonialism, women's rights, temperance, and slavery to today's struggles over racial justice, sexual freedom, access to multimodal knowledge, and the unjust effects of sociopolitical hierarchies. The editors' introduction traces recent scholarship on activist rhetorics and the turn in rhetorical theory toward the work of marginalized voices calling for radical social change.Trade ReviewThis book documents what we know about rhetorical activism in the American nineteenth century better than any previous edited collection or research monograph." - Peter Mortensen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign"Given the broad debates about the role of activism in academe and among public intellectuals, this collection is a timely contribution." - John K. Young, Marshall University
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University of South Carolina Press The Rhetoric of Mao Zedong: Transforming China
Book SynopsisMao Zedong fundamentally transformed China from a Confucian society characterized by hierarchy and harmony into a socialist state guided by communist ideologies of class struggle and radicalization. It was a transformation made possible largely by Mao’s rhetorical ability to attract, persuade, and mobilize millions of Chinese people. Xing Lu’s book, Rhetoric of Mao Zedong, analyzes Mao’s speeches and writings over a span of sixty years, tracing the sources and evolution of Mao’s discourse, analyzing his skills as a rhetor and mythmaker, and assessing his symbolic power and continuing presence in contemporary China. Lu observes that Mao’s rhetorical legacy has been commoditized, culturally consumed, and politically appropriated since his death.Applying both Western rhetorical theories and Chinese rhetorical concepts to reach a more nuanced and sophisticated understanding of his rhetorical legacy, Lu shows how Mao employed a host of rhetorical appeals and strategies drawn from Chinese tradition and how he interpreted the discourse of Marxism-Leninism to serve foundational themes of his message. She traces the historical contexts in which these themes, his philosophical orientations, and his political views were formed and how they transformed China and Chinese people. Lu also examines how certain ideas are promoted, modified, and appropriated in Mao’s rhetoric. Mao’s appropriation of Marxist theory of class struggle, his campaigns of transforming common people into new communist advocates, his promotion of Chinese nationalism, and his stand on China’s foreign policy all contributed to and were responsible for reshaping Chinese thought patterns, culture, and communication behaviors.
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The Experiment LLC The Little Book of Speaking up
Book SynopsisA charming, down-to-earth compendium of easy vocal exercises to help us listen deeply and develop a better sense of self. Just like a musical instrument, our bodies can go out of tune. When our inner harmony is blocked by stress or insecurity, it can affect one of the most essential parts of who we are: our voice. In The Little Book of Speaking Up, music teacher and breath therapist Jutta Ritschel builds on years of experience to teach readers how to relax their bodies and support their breathing, helping their voice become livelier and more resilient. With fifty-plus five-minute exercises - such as tongue twisters and even singing - this book asks and answers questions that include: How do we use our voice in everyday situations? Can a healthy voice improve our mood? How do we maintain clarity and confidence when we’re tired or burned out? In what ways can we improve our voice under pressure? These simple daily exercises will help anyone develop better resonance, tone, clarity - and confidence!
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Texas A & M University Press The Great Silent Majority: Nixon's 1969 Speech on
Book SynopsisIn his televised and widely watched speech to the nation on November 3, 1969, Pres. Richard M. Nixon introduced a phrase—“silent majority”—and a policy—Vietnamization of the war effort—that echo down to the present day. Nixon’s appearance on this night framed the terms in which much of the subsequent civil conflict and military strategy would be understood.Rhetorical scholar Karlyn Kohrs Campbell analyzes this critically important speech in light of the historical context and its centrality to three other speeches–two earlier and one the following spring, when the announcement of the US invasion of Cambodia brought a far different response. She also sheds light on a discourse that generated much heat in a nation already seriously divided in its support of the war in Vietnam.The first single volume dedicated to this speech, this addition to the distinguished Library of Presidential Rhetoric provides the speech text, a summary of its context, its rhetorical elements, and the disciplinary analyses that have developed.
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University of South Carolina Press The Democratic Ethos: Authenticity and
Book SynopsisWhat did Occupy Wall Street accomplish? While it began as a startling disruption in politics as usual, in The Democratic Ethos Freya Thimsen argues that the movement's long-term importance rests in how its commitment to radical democratic self-organization has been adopted within more conventional forms of politics. Occupy changed what counts as credible democratic coordination and how democracy is performed, as demonstrated in opposition to corporate political influence, rural antifracking activism, and political campaigns.By comparing instances of progressive politics that demonstrate the democratic ethos developed and promoted by Occupy and those that do not, Thimsen illustrates how radical and conventional rhetorical strategies can be brought together to seek democratic change. Combining insights from rhetorical studies, performance studies, political theory, and sociology, The Democratic Ethos offers a set of conceptual tools for analyzing anticorporate democracy-movement politics in the twenty-first century.
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NewSouth Publishing The Australian Schoolkids' Guide to Debating and
Book SynopsisWelcome to the world of school debating and public speaking, the best training ground for speaking, reasoning, arguing and looking critically at the big issues. Claire Duffy not only demystifies the process but makes it fun. Learn all about the best way to prepare, the persuasive power of reason, the art of argument and rebuttal and, when it comes to it, how to lose graciously.Including practical tips from the pros and helpful step-by-step examples, this is the essential handbook for making every spoken word count.
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University of the West Indies Press Sounds of Advocacy Language and Liberation
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Hardpress Publishing A Course of Reading for Common Schools and the Lower Classes of Academies on the Plan of the Authors Elements of Reading and Oratory 1
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Hardpress Publishing Analysis of the Principles of Rhetorical Delivery as Applied in Reading and Speaking 1
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