Public Speaking in the 21st Century: Instructor's Annotated Edition

“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.”

- Dr. Jason Edward Black, Chair and Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina – Charlotte

“Public Speaking in the 21st Century distinguishes itself among existing textbooks through its born digital format, as well as its fresh and riveting content.”

- Dr. Maegan Parker Brooks, Assistant Professor of Civic Communication and Media at Willamette University

“[Public Speaking in the 21st Century] is direct, conversational, colloquial, and fast-paced, rich with cultural allusions and disciplinary lore, frank and advisory in telling students what is most likely to work as they practice the ancient art of public speaking.”

- Dr. Thomas W. Benson, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Rhetoric Emeritus at Pennsylvania State University