Welcome to Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking As Advocacy, 2nd edition 

Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy, 2nd edition 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.

The second edition adds additional content around public speaking ethics, digital public speaking, artificial intelligence, refutation, and mindfulness. Examples and emerging research is also integrated throughout.

This book was made possible by a grant provided by the University of Kansas Libraries with a contribution by the University of Kansas Student Senate.

Copyright

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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 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Chapter one also includes minor content from Chapter 5.2 – It’s About Them: Public Speaking in the 21st Century.  Copyright © 2022 by LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.