Discusses three ethical problems with the use of evidence by student finalists in the Persuasion Section of the 1981 National Forensic Association's "Individual Events Nationals": (1) fabrication of sources and data; (2) source deception; and (3) plagiarism. (PD)

This book represents a showcase of thoughts on important education issues by groundbreakers such as Dewey, Montessori, and Bloom as well as contemporary educators like Fullan, Glasser, and Lambert. The reader will find a wealth of subjects, indexed under dozens of pertinent headings. Included are: (1) Inspirational quotes to apply to any project…

This paper argues that western instructors of public speaking courses, along with those in the forensics community, can benefit from the insights offered by the eastern tradition. Examining the Indian religious text, the "Bhagavad Gita," reveals insights that can change the way message construction, audience empathy, and speaker…

The University of Missouri-Kansas City Conference on Non-Traditional Study considered the findings and recommendations of the Carnegie Commission on Non-Traditional Study. (RK)

Describes a unit in which students made speeches to inform, persuade, and entertain. (SP)

A study testing the hypothesis that persuasion decreases as comprehension decreases in an oral communication situation. Raises serious questions about the relationship of comprehension to persuasion. (Author/JB)

After distinguishing between interpersonal communication and public speaking, the author argues that interpersonal communication has emerged because we are living in an age of changing values, myths and symbols. These changes create anxiety, which in turn creates a need for therapy. (Editor)

Discusses the strengths and weaknesses in the rhetoric of Eugene V. Debs" in speeches delivered between 1874 and 1926. (Author/SW)

Reports a study exploring "the relevance of the sex variable to the usefulness of Howard Gilkinson's "Personal Report of Confidence as a Speaker, an instrument for measuring "self-reported speech anxiety; based in part on the author's doctoral dissertation at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. (Author/RD)

Describes a device, the speaker resume, which provides students with biographical information on an orator's education, achievements, historical impact, rhetorical skills, and personal data. Includes a sample resume of Daniel O'Connell, Irish orator. Useful to teachers and students for class discussion and further investigation. (PD)

The efficacy of cue-controlled desensitization and systematic rational restructuring was compared with a placebo method and a waiting-list control in reducing public speaking and nontargeted anxieties. Cue-controlled desensitization was generally more effective than the other groups in reducing subjective speech anxiety. (Author)

Discusses the contribution of a distinguished teacher and scholar during the formative years of the speech profession. Includes a brief biography, major tenets of the Midwestern School of Speech, and major tenets of the Cornell School as argued by Hudson, who sought to make rhetoric the center of the speech discipline. (PD)

To meet the Nazi Party's need for speakers, Fritz Reinhardt began a correspondence course in public speaking in 1928 which trained about 6,000 speakers by 1933. This essay examines the techniques Reinhardt used and the contributions his instructions made to the development of the Nazi meetings and Hitler's takeover. (PD)