Author: Steve
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What is the Future of Speech, Oratory, and Rhetoric?
Delighted to participate in the 2021 World Speech Day at the invitation of Simon Gibson who founded World Speech Day to celebrate and educate everyone on the power of oratory. On this panel we all consider the question of what the future of speech looks like for humanity after the global pandemic experience we’ve all…
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Engaging the creative works of creators who are problematic
I was invited on the Essence of Wonder podcast last weekend to participate in a very interesting and stimulating discussion about whether we should engage with the works of authors and creators who have expressed problematic viewpoints. I really enjoyed the thoughtful conversation. It raised a lot of new ways to think about the issue…
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Innovative, Powerful and Unpredictable Debate Arguments
I am in the process of cleaning out my apartment, which honestly I have never done, or perhaps never done well. I kept a lot of junk. Not sure why I have so much, but I think that’s what happens to you through living. I have been digging around for some paper copies of materials…
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New Rhetoric Lecture Videos on my YouTube and Vimeo Channels
Still struggling through the question of whether or not YouTube is a good place to host lecture videos for American students who often have to pay thousands of dollars anyway to take a course. I am sure I would resent having to watch advertisements before or during a video that provided important discussion of concepts…
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New In the Bin Podcast on the Teaching of Rhetoric and the Fallacies
You can also listen to this episode and others at Anchor.fm/inthebin where we host the show. At that site you can drop us a voice note or message as well. What other topics in speech, presentation, oratory, argumentation, or debate would you like to hear about? We are open to all ideas.
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The Toulmin Model and its Continued Influence over Argumentation
Here’s a new episode of my podcast, In the Bin! On this episode my friend Dan and I discuss the continued influence of the ideas of Stephen Toulmin, author of many books but most notably Uses of Argument where he introduced the world to what we now know as the Toulmin Model of Argumentation. Listen…
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The Return of the Oral Exam to American Universities
I’ve been doing some reading into the long tradition of the oral exam, something we’ve given up on in the United States. In many other countries the oral exam isn’t just normal, it’s expected. Some countries even require an oral exam to graduate from university. The standard format is a series of questions that are…
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That Semi-Annual Introduction to Rhetoric Talk
By now regular visitors to the blog should be aware of my twice a year sojourn to Cornell University to introduce a fairly good number of Cornell students to the art of rhetoric. Of course since they are alive human beings in their 20s who are in college they have been practicing rhetoric for quite…
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In the Bin Visits France in this New Episode
Another new episode of In the Bin is now ready for your ears. Listen here or you can choose to listen through the podcast provider of your choice. The series is everywhere. at Anchor.fm you can leave us a voice message. We’d love to hear from you and might even play it on a future…
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Recognizing what’s missing from teaching debate in an online class format
I made the choice to change my debate course to something more active from something where we discuss and analyze the role of debate in society through the meta. In the past, students would discuss, write, and speak about various debates in a hope to evaluate the role and purpose of the discourse we call…
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