Public Speaking in the 21st Century

Davis W. Houck’s Public Speaking in the 21st Century is an exciting and affordable interactive textbook that Jason Edward Black (Chair, UNC Charlotte) calls “smart, engaging, irreverent, and funny -- abounding with the requisite treatments of traditional public speaking and classical rhetoric, while absolutely electric with pop cultural examples from the 80s and 90s to the 2000s and today.” Follow Laura, her roommates, an impassioned T.A., and a host of other characters as they navigate their way through public speaking. Read along as Aristotle gets a uniquely American update and the Sophists at last get their pedagogical say. Watch as YouTube and other web-based digital content gets leveraged for illustrative effect. Equal parts book, film, animation, this “textbook experience” will have your students talking, your lectures popping, and the world of public speaking recalibrated and re-engineered for today’s students.