Converging Public Speaking and College Composition ©
     

Examining Oral and Written Relationships

There are a growing number of college courses that synthesize the teaching of public speaking and college composition in a year-long sequence. This framework has many practical, pedagogical, and philosophical benefits, for this approach affirms clearly and deliberately the dialectical relationship between oral and written discourse. However, the primary purpose of this synthesis is to teach rhetoric in both its spoken and written forms to an undergraduate audience.

The Speaking/Writing Connection: A Rhetoric examines the dialectical relationship between speaking and writing by offering a freshly modern but decidely classical approach to teaching rhetorical communication. This textbook explores and analyzes this relationship by examining its similarities and differences.

Based on the authors' experiences, students who examine oral and written relationships learn each discipline more thoroughly and gain an enhanced linguistic and rhetorical perspective of language, one that views language as a continuum of rhetorical experiences and recognizes literacy's roots in orality. This textbook is modeled on certain classical approaches to teaching rhetoric; however, the authors view rhetorical studies as an integral part of human growth and helpful in explaining human behavior.

The Speaking/Writing Connection: A Rhetoric

David C. Ryan and Fredel Wiant

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© 2007
248 pages, softbound/perfect binding
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