Tag: oratory

  • New Podcast Episode on Free Speech Debates and Rhetoric

    Check out the newest episode of my #rhetoric #oratory and #debate podcast In the Bin. In this episode I chat with Dr. Joe Sery who studies First Amendment and free expression issues about arguing about platforming, academic free speech, judicial originalism, and more! Have a listen and all comments are welcome.

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  • Procrasti Nation

    Ok so poking around and procrastinating, I learned that the person placed in charge of publishing the Constitutional Convention of 1787 debate transcripts was John Quincy Adams. Mr. Rhetoric himself from the 19th century was ordered to edit and publish them in 1818. This guy really loved words. I wonder if I could teach a…

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  • Is There Anything to say about Yesterday’s Speeches?

    A return to the standard formulation of political speech at the highest levels of government seems to be the message I got from yesterday’s event. Was this a victory speech? It didn’t feel like it. It felt more like a return to the familiar and comfortable structure and cadence of professional political speech. From my…

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  • An Idea for Using Everyday Photos in Teaching Speech

    It’s always usually at the 1/3 of the semester mark that I start to think about the class I’d rather be teaching, rather than the one that I am actually teaching. I keep a notebook of all these ideas for future ways to organize and orient the class, but these ideas never look very good…

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  • The Fallacy of the Banned Public Speaking Class Topic

    Just finished assessing the first round of student speeches for the term and the average grades were around an 88 to 90, high B to low A. This is atypical for me; most first speeches are closer to a C and slowly move up to this point over a course of four to five speeches.…

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  • The First Oral Assignments are Turned In and It Seems Like a Lot of Grading

    The biggest hazard from teaching online I think is that you get huge waves of grading that have very firm time requirements. If I assign students to prepare a speech 6 minutes long, I have to listen to 40 or so 6 minute speeches. There’s nothing I can do to reduce that amount of time…

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