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Public Speaking in the Real World: How to Make it Matter

Bridging Campus and Community

  • Higher Education
  • Event
  • On-demand
  • Introduction to Communication
  • Composition Lunch & Learn
  • 40 Minutes
  • On-Demand Video

Description

Watch the discussion on strategies for connecting your public-speaking class to the world beyond campus, especially to civic affairs in your local community. Help students understand the importance of public speaking for their career and community.

About Your Speaker

  • Paul Stob -

    Paul Stob

    Paul Stob is Professor of Communication Studies at Vanderbilt University. A scholar of rhetorical criticism and American public address, his books include William James and the Art of Popular Statement and Intellectual Populism: Democracy, Inquiry, and the People, which received the James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address from the National Communication Association. An accomplished teacher, Professor Stob teaches courses on public speaking, social movements, and American public address. He has received Vanderbilt’s Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and the Faculty Advisor Award in the Humanities. This is his first edition as co-author of The Art of Public Speaking. Paul Stob lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife, Sarah. They have one son, Elliott, and two dogs, Missy and Reggie.