Section Name
The Public Speaking Basic Course
Abstract
The public speaking course has changed little during the past two decades, despite the rapid and profound changes that have occurred in rhetorical scholarship. By contrast, the basic composition course in English Departments has undergone transformations that more closely reflect the development of the scholarship. One reason for this difference may rest in our failure to regard the public speaking course as a serious part of our mission as teachers and scholars. By concentrating on the rhetoric of composition. we might not only generate innovative and theoretically interesting approaches to pedagogy, but we might improve our rhetorical scholarship by connecting it more directly with our common experience as teachers of public speaking.
Recommended Citation
Leff, Michael
(1992)
"Teaching Public Speaking as Composition,"
Basic Communication Course Annual: Vol. 4, Article 12.
Available at:
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/bcca/vol4/iss1/12
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