Public Speaking category: 1264 books
Teaching Writing Genres Across the Curriculum
Strategies for Middle School Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
This volume showcases the efforts of real teachers using the teaching events from real middle school classrooms. Included is the work of eight hardworking middle school teachers who are convinced that the form and function of genre is a way to teach writing across the middle school curriculum. Each chapter...
Communication Centers
A Theory-Based Guide to Training and Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Communication Centers: A Theory-Based Guide to Training and Management offers advice based on extant research and best practices to both faculty who are asked to develop a communication center and for directors of established centers. Broken into easily understood parts, Turner and Sheckels begin...
Nonviolence Ain't What It Used To Be
Unarmed Insurrection and the Rhetoric of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
"Shon Meckfessel . . . brings a fresh perspective to the stubborn debates around violence and nonviolence and suggests a way to move beyond the left's tactical impasse. Nonviolence Ain't What It Used to Be won't settle the old argument, but it may start a new one."—Kristian Williams, Our Enemies...
Getting It in Writing
The Quest to Become Outstanding and Effective Teachers of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Sixteen teachers. Sixteen journeys. All on a quest to become outstanding teachers of writing. All taking different paths to acquire and hone those skills that make a teacher effective. From kindergarten to college, teachers are faced with the daunting task of instilling the art of writing in their students....
Readings in Writing Courses
Replacing Literature in Composition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
As the title suggests, this sixchapter book responds to a question which, in Western culture, goes back to Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian, namely, What should rhetoric teachers ask their students to read? Primarily historical, the first two chapters trace conflicting answers to the question...
Advances in the History of Rhetoric
The First Six Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
Advances in the History of Rhetoric: The First Six Years is a comprehensive collection of 29 scholarly essays published during the first phase of the journal’s history. Research from prominent and developing scholars that was once difficult to acquire is now offered in a coherent and comprehensive...
Be Vigilant But Not Afraid
The Farewell Speeches of Barack Obama and Michelle Obama
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States of America, ended his second—and final—term in office on January 20th, 2017.
For eight years, President Obama, along with then-First Lady Michelle Obama, worked to define a new America; a better nation: one that was more inclusive, prosperous and...
Racial Worldmaking
The Power of Popular Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
When does racial description become racism? Critical race studies has not come up with good answers to this question because it has overemphasized the visuality of race. According to dominant theories of racial formation, we see race on bodies and persons and then link those perceptions to unjust...
Political Communication in the Anglophone World
Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Political Communication in the Anglophone World: Case Studies, by Theodore F. Sheckels, extends political communication scholarship—primarily rhetorical scholarship—into the extensive English language arena outside the United States and the United Kingdom. While wrestling with the extent to which...
by H. Wind Cowles
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
"[This book] opens a window into the process of psycholinguistics, pulling together classic and cutting-edge research from a number of different areas to provide an engaging and insightful introduction to the study of language processing. Psycholinguistics 101 is sure to hook students with its enthusiasm...
Enhancing Communication for Individuals with Autism
A Guide to the Visual Immersion System
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
How can you help children with moderate to severe autism become more effective communicators? Discover the Visual Immersion System (VIS), a practical, research-based intervention framework that taps into the strong visual processing skills many children on the spectrum have. You'll learn how to use readily...
Language Competence Across Populations
Toward a Definition of Specific Language Impairment
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
This unique, edited book bridges studies in language disorders and linguistic theory with timely contributions from leading scholars in language development. It presents an attempt to define Specific Language Impairment, relating it to children of normal and disordered language capabilities.
The...
Critical Rhythm
The Poetics of a Literary Life Form
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Will be of interest to those following the recent turn to a politically, socially, and historically inflected approach to literary form, as well as to those in a range of fields thinking about affect, sound studies, and aesthetics.
Slayer Slang
A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2004
In its seven years on television, Buffy the Vampire Slayer has earned critical acclaim and a massive cult following among teen viewers. One of the most distinguishing features of the program is the innovative way the show's writers play with language: fabricating new words, morphing existing ones,...