Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy

Abstract

This project was made possible by a grant from KU Libraries' Parent's Campaign with support from the David Shulenburger Office of Scholarly Communication & Copyright and the Open Educational Resources Working Group in the University of Kansas Libraries, with a contribution by the University of Kansas Student Senate. Portions of this text were updated, remixed, and adapted from Exploring Public Speaking: The Free Dalton State College Public Speaking Textbook by Barbara G.Tucker & Kristin M. Barton, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License ; "Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy" is a contemporary, interdisciplinary public speaking textbook that fuses rhetoric, critical/cultural studies, and performance to offer an up-to-date resource for students. With a focus on advocacy, this textbook invites students to consider public speaking as a political, purposeful form of information-sharing.