This paper delineates an exercise where students are encouraged to give their point of view to a quotation received (the activity is an adaptation from the Impromptu Speaking event in Competitive Forensics). The paper states that students are to explain the meaning of a quotation (topic themes may be from ecology, education, environment, life,…

A teaching experiment in Finland was designed to clarify ways to teach argumentation in Finnish higher education and how to motivate students to participate in critical content-area discussions. Finnish students traditionally hesitate to criticize each other's opinions or those of the teacher. The experimental teaching method gave them the…

This paper researched persuasive tactics used by college age females on college age males. Previous evidence indicates that nonverbal persuasion is more effective than verbal persuasion. The topics explored in previous research on persuasion consisted of physical attractiveness, indirect knowledge of influence, tactics used by children and college…

This paper reports a case study about argumentation and scientific practice in the 11th grade. The objectives of the study are to identify argument patterns and dimensions of the scientific practice in students' conversations and actions while engaged in an environmental management project in a wetland. The focus are the warrants that students…

This paper elaborates on the rhetorical uses of immigrants' life experiences as expressed through late technology of the Internet. The paper draws readers' attention to stories about refugees in electronic texts from the Kosovo War of 1998. It compares these materials to archival material about a Greek immigrant family from the 1954 "New York…

This 1997 issue of "The Carolinas Speech Communication Annual" contains the following articles: "'Bridges of Understanding': UNESCO's Creation of a Fantasy for the American Public" (Michael H. Eaves and Charles F. Beadle, Jr.); "Developing a Communication Cooperative: A Student, Faculty, and Organizational Learning…

An examination of the persuasive qualities of Joan Baez's songs of social dissent. (CH)

Stresses the importance of instruction which prepares students to think critically about the language of politics. (RB)

Current complaints about academic debate can be answered by more careful coaching and judging, not by the elimination of debate programs. (CH)

Concludes that while the inclusion of evidence in a public address might not always effect immediate attitude change in listeners, its inclusion does seem to have a predictable impact as an inhibitor of counterpersuasion" presented in a succeeding address. (Author/RD)

Discusses theory that an attitude toward a proposed change in policy can be predicted from attitudes toward the consequences associated with the change. (ML)