Abstract
Every year yet another bundle of new textbooks for the basic speech course arrives. Most of the texts are worthy of consideration even though they likely represent but minor variations on well worn rhetorical derivatives. Few major differences persist. A truly outstanding text is rare, even among the few that dominate our actual classroom usage. Now comes on the market a text that on first glance looks very much like the others, but upon scrutiny is a marked departure, not into a novel area, but into a well known, though much neglected, canon of speech. Under the pens of Donovan J. Ochs and Anthony C. Winkler, that canon, style, is as modern as it is ancient. A Brief Introduction to Speech is practical, applicable, deceptively thorough, and modestly misnamed; the text ought to be entitled "The Handbook for Speaking with Style."
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Speech Communication
Volume
11
Issue
2
First Page
44
Last Page
46
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Reynolds, Rex
(1979)
"Review: A Brief Introduction to Speech,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 11:
No.
2, Article 12.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol11/iss2/12
Copyright
©1979 Iowa Communication Association
